A Deeper Look Inside The Rabbit Hole of Utopia — PART V
In Part IV we reviewed the introduction of Bitcoin and the tremendous potential that exists in applying P2P technology to money itself. Bitcoin’s creation was a kind of revelation of that potential, but unfortunately its evolution over the past 11 years has been the tragic story of a revolution interrupted. Just as the internet before it was the opening of untold potential in terms of connecting people and sharing ideas, it too eventually devolved into a surveillance landscape ripe for corporate and government exploitation. What went wrong?
The majority of Bitcoin users today would be surprised to learn what Satoshi Nakamoto had envisioned for Bitcoin, but peering into the original code gives us insight into Nakamoto’s dreams. What if I told you that P2P messaging, a P2P marketplace and even P2P gaming were part of Bitcoin’s unrealized potential? The hard truth that many users today have difficulty accepting is that the Bitcoin we have today is a crippled version of what Bitcoin could have been and what Bitcoin was supposed to have become. The history of Bitcoin and its development is not a pleasant tale to unweave, but its a story similar to that of the internet itself. Vested interests and greed have robbed humanity of tremendous benefits and remarkable potential that must now be harvested anew.
In 2013 a group of cryptography and networking technology enthusiasts began working on a project in secret designed to unlock the full potential of Peer-to-Peer technology on the internet and along with it, the evolution of money itself. The 1984 Group sought to create a unified and fully independent ecosystem that offered many of the benefits of the modern internet without the harms that had come to infiltrate it. They were motivated by the desire to protect the privacy of communication and the freedom of self-expression, essential human rights as they saw them. In so doing, they sought to revolutionize the internet itself. Their dedicated and principled work culminated in the release of the Utopia P2P Ecosystem at the end of 2019.
In Utopia, people have a genuinely decentralized network hosted by their peers that affords them many of the modern conveniences of the internet but in a fully encrypted and private format. New users generate a public key which they can share with others for private communication or choose to remain fully anonymous and chat publicly. Users can register uNS records to host independent self-hosted websites. Users can create and join chat forums or channels on any topic they choose. Users can play games across this same network with each other. Users can invoice and transact in a native, fully integrated and private cryptocurrency, Crypton (CRP) to conduct commerce with anyone privately. Content, ideas, value can now be shared in a censorship-resistant, surveillance-free form that fully realizes the potential of the Internet and Bitcoin in ways only dreamed about in years past.
Originally Published By TheMerchant in TheMessage within the Utopia P2P Ecosystem in March of 2020. Upgrade your internet at https://u.is
