Re: Lots of fun with interplanetary WebID

So what were the 51 bytes?

-- Christopher Allen


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!" :)
>