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b"Dominic Tarr is a hacker who resides on a sailboat, usually found in New Zealand's beautiful Hauraki Gulf. In recent years he has risen to fame as the creator of the Secure Scuttlebutt protocol, Scuttlebutt for short. Scuttlebutt is comprised of a standardized message format and a subjective append only log stored locally by users. \\n\\nThe first application has been a multi-client decentralized social media platform that is an absolute joy to use, and I encourage everyone to download my favourite desktop client, Patchwork, or Manyverse for Android. As an autonomous software system, like Bitcoin, Scuttlebutt rewards the provisioning of resources to support the network, only rather than a point system and money myth, Scuttlebutt offers something far more valuable, conversation. This mostly covers the origin of the protocol but I will definitely conduct more interviews with Dom and others close to the project, which is today one of the most impressive, and well used decentralized applications in existence.\\n\\nVisit scuttlebutt.nz for more information, \\n\\nhttps://twitter.com/thethirdweb\\n\\n@ecfGe81VMJ3iko5++/KfD51omfNtLSd50nS1omUyj/Y=.ed25519\\n\\nHistory of Secure Scuttlebutt\\nThe name is coincidental. It comes from an old amazon paper describing a subsystem of the amazon dynamo database that used a gossip protocol.\\nGossip protocols are robust because, like human gossip, messages can be passed through third parties ensuring that if a network is disrupted communication can still take place.\\nHowever as the message is passed from party to party there is the opportunity to manipulate its contents. This is easily countered using cryptography \\n\\nWhat is secure scuttlebutt?\\nCame from looking at the problem of getting two databases to store the same information.\\nDom was looking at building something like IPFS he called Cyphernet\\nCyberspace is the space made by signals, cypherspace is the space made by algorithms\\n Hyperlinks tell you where to go to find a piece of information, a hash is the primary identifier in cypherspace. The hash tells you what the thing is once you have found it but not where to find it.\\n With hyperlinks the server can give you anything. With a hash you always know you have the right thing but another system is required to help you find the thing.\\nDom found that in private software development there was an incentive to make poor software because that results in more billable hours for the service industry\\nThis is because software contains a power structure encoded in it\\nToday we live in an age of digital feudalism\\n\\nFrom reading the Dynamo paper and learning node.js dominic became recognised as a distributed systems expert.\\nThis was the toolkit needed for the data replication he imagined.\\nAfter presenting at a javascript meetup people responded well\\nHe got a job at a company, nearform, to build a distributed database. Through this project the idea for secure scuttlebut emerfged and dom gained the skills he needed to build it\\n\\nDisappointment with blockchain\\nThere is so much potential in cypherlinks - hashes and signatures - an opportunity to create a \\u201cthird web\\u201d\\nIn the early days of the internet everything worked so well just being free, why would you make everything cost money?\\nInsisting on strict ordering makes it really hard to \\u201cget life done\\u201d\\n\\nAdditional third web projects\\nIPFS\\nDapp\\nGit\\nGun\\nSwarm\\nSSB\\nMaidsafe"