Re: Lots of fun with interplanetary WebID

On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 at 22:41, Christopher Allen <
ChristopherA@lifewithalacrity.com> wrote:

> So what were the 51 bytes?
>

Oh it was 9747 byles (of 10k max currently).  It was basically my homepage
and public keys.

As linked data :
http://graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk/browser/?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fmelvincarvalho.com%2F

The 51 was the fee per byte (measured in mili satoshis) in a competitive
market, the higher the fee, the higher you go up the queue.


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> -- Christopher Allen
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> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 1:38 PM Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> FYI :)
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 at 22:34
>> Subject: Lots of fun with interplanetary WebID
>> To: public-webid <public-webid@w3.org>, public-rww <public-rww@w3.org>, <
>> public-solid@w3.org>
>> Cc: Nicola Greco <me@nicolagreco.com>
>>
>>
>> Apologies for cross posting.  This is just a bit of fun. :)
>>
>> FYI : I believe I've just become the first person to have beamed their
>> webid into space!
>>
>> https://blockstream.com/satellite-queue/
>>
>> Mine is the transmission : 0a98e2d0-71ed-442c-abfc-b4da124739f6
>>
>> Bytes : 9747
>> Upload Started: 1/17/2019, 10:18:10 PM
>> Upload Ended: 1/17/2019, 10:18:20 PM
>>
>> 10s to get into space! :)
>>
>> Webids are great. And they gain extra resilience by having by having the
>> data stored or cached in multiple locations.
>>
>> As this was all done using crypto currency. I'm soon going to be able to
>> add this as a feature to the upcoming solidpay system. So people will be
>> able to sent their WebIDs into space for about 2 cents at the moment. Watch
>> this space!
>>
>> It will also become possible to create redundancy of webids by using IPFS
>> or decentralized identifiers (DIDs).
>>
>> Or even combine the all of these techniques.
>>
>> Apologies in advance for the tagline : "DIDs In Space!" :)
>>
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