{"id":9507,"date":"2020-10-25T12:46:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T16:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/?p=9507"},"modified":"2020-10-25T12:46:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T16:46:37","slug":"chris-ball-announcing-gittorrent-a-decentralized-github","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/chris-ball-announcing-gittorrent-a-decentralized-github\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Ball \u00bb Announcing GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>(This post is an\u00a0<i>aspirational transcript<\/i>\u00a0of the talk I gave to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dtn.is\/\">Data Terra Nemo<\/a>\u00a0conference in May 2015. If you\u2019d like to watch the less eloquent version of the same talk that I\u00a0<i>actually<\/i>\u00a0gave, the video should be available soon!)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been working on building a decentralized GitHub, and I\u2019d like to talk about what this means and why it matters \u2014 and more importantly, show you how it can be done and real GitTorrent code I\u2019ve implemented so far.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.printf.net\/articles\/2015\/05\/29\/announcing-gittorrent-a-decentralized-github\/\">Chris Ball \u00bb Announcing GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This post is an\u00a0aspirational transcript\u00a0of the talk I gave to the\u00a0Data Terra Nemo\u00a0conference in May 2015. If you\u2019d like to watch the less eloquent version of the same talk that I\u00a0actually\u00a0gave, the video should be available soon!) 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