ConfPad

In the past few years, peer-to-peer distributed infrastructure has become more viable in Node.js. WebTorrent, for example, opened up the possibility for streaming BitTorrent files in the browser, where every person who watched a video would be contributing a piece of their bandwidth to improve speed for everyone else watching the video. However, this kind of technology goes far beyond streaming videos. In this talk, I introduce Dat, a peer-to-peer data sharing protocol that updates data over time. This means that we can build websites, applications, and collaborate on documents in a way that is resilient against censorship and Internet shutdown. Audience members will be able to understand the Dat protocol, how it works, and how to build a website using Dat.