Blockchain technology like Bitcoin popularised the concept of decentralised consensus. Together with the rise of peer-to-peer technologies, it becomes possible to entirely decouple data-ownership from its physical storage and reorganise information in a privacy-sensitive manner. SAFE is a decentralised communication and storage network with a local-group-consensus mechanism to ensure consistency. But without central servers how do you organise user-generated content – like comments on a blog?
In this talk, we will explore the privacy-first data structures employed on SAFE, how you can use cryptography to provide access control on the data layer directly and thus rethink the idea of “central storage in the cloud”. Finally, we will take a short look into the important role functional programming will play in these networks in the future
Benjamin Kampmann is a freelance Open Source Software Developer and Educator living in Berlin. He designs, builds and supervises the building of software (systems). Sometimes for clients, often on his own, whenever possible as OpenSource. He cares about good design on both sides: the product and user experience as well as a robust technological architecture and infrastructure. Even more, he cares about people; he mentors and coaches, writes and facilitates the writing of learning materials and organises community events and organisations.
At MaidSafe he is working on the developer-facing side of things in Rust and Javascript and coordinates the community efforts and events for The SAFE Network.
