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Kim Dotcom Wants to Build an Alternate Internet Powered by Blockchains
Kim Dotcom certainly hasn’t been letting his ongoing fight against US extradition charges slow him down. On Thursday, according to Mashable, he remotely addressed a startup convention in Sydney, Australia to pitch his latest idea: an alternative internet called MegaNet. Dotcom is wanted in the US on criminal copyright infringement charges thanks to his file-hosting site Megaupload, which had a successful run until it was shuttered by the US Justice Department in 2012
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A la Bitcoin. I've installed Bitcoin a few months ago and it took the bastard several days (nearly a week) to have it completely synced with the network. Imagine that with your Mega-browser on the Mega-web. It sounds better than it is, but that's more according to the comparison with Bitcoin. And the idea is far from new.