Peer-to-Peer is a term from network technology, but its implications go beyond that. Peer-to-Peer could have a strong impact on how collaboration in the world works. In computer science such networks consist of nodes (peers) working together based on equals rights. This is different to today’s predominant paradigm in networking…

If you program a lot in Scala, some patterns occur over and over again. For me it was a combination of a Future and an Option, plugged together as Future[Option[T]]. That type corresponds to something that might be happening in the future, but it might also not happen under certain…

Summary This article is inspired by the proof of concept application Eternitas. It demonstrates a new way of storing, encrypting and signing documents. Both this article and the application present these concepts. The first part of the article is about general reflections and topics related to the subject. The second part…

It is very easy to publish a complete website with IPFS. If you have a local IPFS node installed, you just need to run: ipfs add -r webapp Here webapp needs to be the directory in your local file system, where your complete web application resides. But is this really…

Last night I did not sleep very well. After a short slumber, I woke up in the middle of the night and saw a shining triangle in the dark above me. I often see triangles, when I have sleepless nights, but this one was special. — You can see what…