Akasha Wants to Put Social Media on the Ethereum Blockchain
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Akasha Wants to Put Social Media on the Ethereum Blockchain

THELOGICALINDIAN - Theres been a lot of focus on cryptocurrency amusing media platforms afresh Now a new appliance is advancing to the bazaar alleged Akasha which aims to barrage its alpha absolution this ages

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Centralized Social Media Soon to Be a Memory

AkashaThe accomplished few months accept had absolutely a bit of account apropos platforms like Steemit, Synereo and the Yours Network. A new belvedere is launching this October alleged Akasha, which agency “’ether’ in both its basal and abstract senses.” The activity is a amusing media appliance that splices the Ethereum arrangement and Inter-Planetary File System (IPFS).  

Akasha is the abstraction of Bitcoin Magazine architect and Ethereum co-founder Mihai Alisie. The activity aims to be a censorship aggressive internet publishing armpit with abounding of the appearance begin on acceptable amusing media apps.

By utilizing IPFS, the basement of Akasha will reportedly accept no axial point of abortion or bandwidth issues. Additionally, application the Ethereum arrangement as a backdrop, developers say, the activity doesn’t depend on servers. The developers abaft Akasha believe, with the cryptocurrency solutions we accept today, users deserve a bigger amusing media model.

Akasha’s website explains its architecture purpose, stating:

Akasha October Invite Only Alpha Launch Begins

This October, the Akasha aggregation will gradually accelerate out invites to 4,500 people. Alpha subscribers will be able to analysis the dApp on several operating systems, beam smart contracts, and hopefully, analyze abeyant flaws and bugs afore the accessible alpha. The aggregation expects accessible alpha to absolution appear the end of Q4 2016.

The aggregation says the aboriginal releases of the Akasha dApp may be ambiguous and accept a few bugs. Developers explain this is a “tradeoff” for actuality one of the aboriginal projects to array technologies like IPFS and Ethereum. Both projects are in their infancy, and abrupt behavior will happen, but developers say they will “iron out the bugs” quickly. The aggregation additionally asks users for acknowledgment and to accessible bug issues via their Slack channel.

Akasha developers say throughout the aboriginal appearance ETH will be the platform’s bill token. In time this could change, but the Akasha aggregation wants to analysis the advantages and disadvantages aboriginal afore introducing a native token. Besides application Ethereum and IPFS, the belvedere additionally utilizes Electron, React with Redux, and Node.js on its technical stack.

Open Sourcing the Code and the Ethereum Mainnet

The absolute testing appearance for Akasha will be gradual, and the aggregation affairs to accessible antecedent the cipher afterwards the alpha releases. The aggregation will additionally be captivation a community “breakathon” so users can acquisition bugs that may accept slipped by during development. Afterwards commutual the breakathon and acclimation any issues, the belvedere will beta barrage on the Ethereum capital network.

Akasha developers say they accept spent over a year building the platform. Tough antagonism additionally awaits its release, with several added decentralized amusing networks on the way. One affair is for sure, admitting — the internet’s anatomy and amusing media habits are changing, and Akasha wants to be on the beginning in these avant-garde times.

What do you anticipate about this amusing media project? Let us apperceive in the comments below.

Source: Akasha blog

Images via Shutterstock, Akasha’s Website and Pixabay.  

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