“Last week’s announcement of Bitcloud, a theoretical peer-to-peer network project that bypasses centralised servers and uses individual devices as secure nodes for routing and distributing network traffic captured significant media attention. A Scottish company, MaidSafe, claims that it has nearly finished building a system that does what Bitcloud is proposing. You can imagine our scepticism when a company we’ve never heard of, in the tiny town of Troon, told me it had solved one of the most compelling problems on the internet. Here’s what I have translated from the team of exuberant programmers who have been deep in code, deep in Scotland, for the past eight years.”
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-01/27/maidsafe-bitcloud
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