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200 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 19h \ on: Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit (2017) tech
What do you think of point 1 below?
To become your own Internet Service Provider with customers who pay you to access the Internet, or be your own web hosting provider with customers who pay you to be accessible from the Internet, or your own transit provider who has customers who pay you to move their customer’s packets to other people’s customers, you need a few things:
  1. Your own public IP address space allocated to you by an Internet numbering organization
  2. Your own Autonomous System Number (ASN) to identify your network as separate from everyone else's networks
  3. At least one router connected to a different autonomous system speaking the Border Gateway Protocol to tell the rest of the Internet that your address space is accessible from your autonomous system.
It seems like the internet isn't really that decentralized because the address space is controlled by a centralized body.
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67 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek OP 19h
There are even more layers where similar problems exist: registrars for DNS, root certificate authorities for TLS, and CDNs like Cloudflare.
But I’d say it works well enough, since we literally built the darknet and permissionless money on it. If we don’t consider the internet decentralized, then we also can’t consider bitcoin decentralized.
For all practical purposes, I think we can consider the internet decentralized, as long as I can buy weed online and pay with cryptocurrency.
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