web2web

This fork:

I changed webpage.html and tried it myself, it works! Webtorrent is awesome! But I found no instructions on how to host my

How I did it:

• download this repo
• edit webpage.html and make at least a modification
• download Webtorrent: https://webtorrent.io (or another client that supports websocket)
• create a new torrent (on webtorrent drag the file onto it) containing just webpage.html
• get the torrent hash (on webtorrent you can right click on the entry in the list and select copy magnet link or copy instant.io link, on the magnet link the hash will be magnet:?xt=urn:btih:HERE&dn=..., this is valid for any magnet link, on the instant.io link you can find the hash after the # sign.)
• go onto http://blockchainpen.com, note your bitcoin address in the top-right corner
• deposit a very tiny amount of bitcoins to it (more than 0.1mbtc, less than a 1mbtc suggested, millibits, 0.001 BTC, see extra info to get the private key to be able to sweep your wallet afterwards) and refresh the page
• paste your torrent hash into your funded blockchainpen.com page and write the message to the blockchain
• copy your blockchainpen bitcoin address
• edit index.html and change the btcAddress value from the existing one to yours
• drop the index.html page onto your browser or host it somewhere like on github pages
• call some friends so they will seed your file or put it on <joystream.co> (incentivized seeding w/ bitcoin)
• enjoy!

Original readme

Server-less & domain-less websites updatable via torrents and bitcoin blockchain.

live demo

Why

Websites get seized by losing control over a webserver or a domain. If we replace both the webserver and the domain with torrents and blockchain then there's nothing left to seize.

How It Works

This repo contains two HTML files:

• index.html is responsible for loading the webpage from torrent,
• webpage.html is the actual webpage.

When you open index.html in the browser (live demo), here's what happens:

1. Bitcoin address 1DhDyqB4xgDWjZzfbYGeutqdqBhSF7tGt4 is searched for the latest outgoing transaction containing OP_RETURN script. Inside the script there is a torrent infohash of webpage.html.
2. webpage.html is downloaded from torrent via webtorrent and displayed.

How Is It Updated

To perform serverless updates, torrent of the updated webpage.html is created and its infohash is inserted into new bitcoin transaction sent from 1DhDyqB4xgDWjZzfbYGeutqdqBhSF7tGt4 address.

How Is It Domainless

Save the index.html to your PC and open it from localhost. It will still work and receive updates.

What Next

User Accounts

Users will be able to sign up by sending small amount of bitcoin to the 1DhDyqB4xgDWjZzfbYGeutqdqBhSF7tGt4 bitcoin address. Then they can update their content by inserting torrent infohashes into transactions sent from their addresses.

E-commerce

It will be possible to build complex serverless anonymous e-commerce websites using bitcoin for payments.

Project Status

Proof of concept, just for fun. Works in chrome, firefox and opera.