diff --git a/content/news/02-as-reddit-burns-it-powers-the-world.md b/content/news/02-as-reddit-burns-it-powers-the-world.md index 007c45f0..17cda205 100644 --- a/content/news/02-as-reddit-burns-it-powers-the-world.md +++ b/content/news/02-as-reddit-burns-it-powers-the-world.md @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Even more important than his words, I've seen what he *did*. Attempting to share I have met Alexis Ohanian, briefly. I have read *Without Their Permission*. Alexis' words aren't bad. He encourages entrepreneurship, attacking problems, and improving the world. He also encourages going around those who would protect the entrenched, obstinate, and broken status quo. -When I met Alexis a few years ago, I had the chance to ask him a question. I asked him something like: if you believe in idea of routing around the rotten, why not put more energy into projects like that? Why not put resources into projects like Tor, Bitcoin, Bittorrent, or other technology that does the things he describes? +When I met Alexis a few years ago, I had the chance to ask him a question. I asked him something like: if you believe in idea of routing around the rotten, why not put more energy into projects like that? Why not put resources into projects like Tor, Bitcoin, BitTorrent, or other technology that does the things he describes? Alexis, at first, faltered. Then he gave me an answer about how there are difficult choices to make and it's important to work from within and from without. It wasn't a terrible answer, but it was a politician's answer. In those first few seconds I saw the mask drop. I saw a man's mind spinning a way to justify his true motivations: status and power. Those motivations are not inherently objectionable, but hypocrisy is. diff --git a/content/news/03-5-questions-about-lbry.md b/content/news/03-5-questions-about-lbry.md index 335f6922..82d0cd55 100644 --- a/content/news/03-5-questions-about-lbry.md +++ b/content/news/03-5-questions-about-lbry.md @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ of their content nor, from a technical perspective, do they possess it. However, legal advice nor a promise. -### 3. If LBRY is Bitcoin + Bittorrent, why does it not use the Bitcoin blockchain? +### 3. If LBRY is Bitcoin + BitTorrent, why does it not use the Bitcoin blockchain? We spent a lot of time debating whether it was possible to build LBRY on top of Bitcoin. We certainly wanted to, as Bitcoin offers a tremendous user base. diff --git a/content/news/24-our-christmas-surprise.md b/content/news/24-our-christmas-surprise.md index b2a11a03..70a4a5c2 100644 --- a/content/news/24-our-christmas-surprise.md +++ b/content/news/24-our-christmas-surprise.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: Our Christmas Surprise! date: '2015-12-24 02:27:31' --- -We at LBRY have spent the past several months talking up our protocol. It’s the world’s first decentralized, censorship-resistant, open-source, peer-to-peer information marketplace. It’s one part Bitcoin, one part Bittorrent, and one part improved DNS. It takes uploaded media, encrypts it, splits it into a thousand pieces, and sends it to hosts around the world – only to reassemble it instantly when you click “Stream” or “Download.” That is to say, it’s a fancy and complicated piece of machinery. +We at LBRY have spent the past several months talking up our protocol. It’s the world’s first decentralized, censorship-resistant, open-source, peer-to-peer information marketplace. It’s one part Bitcoin, one part BitTorrent, and one part improved DNS. It takes uploaded media, encrypts it, splits it into a thousand pieces, and sends it to hosts around the world – only to reassemble it instantly when you click “Stream” or “Download.” That is to say, it’s a fancy and complicated piece of machinery. “But what can we *DO* with it?”, you ask.