The Dark Forest: Private CRDTs as Global Database
summary
Claim: private CRDTs can act as a global database by combining content-addressed CIDs, a Web Native File System with temporal versioning, and hash-array mapped trie (HAMT) storage to keep encrypted blobs portable. The prototype implements Dark Forest links plus hashlane CRDTs, uses the Web Crypto API for browser key management, runs fully offline, supports automatic CRDT merges and history compression, and demonstrates practical BFT-concurrent reads/writes across disconnected nodes.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and setup
- 1:05Current data silo problems
- 6:27Content addressing basics
- 12:37File system with network links
- 17:50Access control and encryption
- 20:59CRDTs for concurrency
- 26:13Conclusion and future work
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