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Life & fun · January 15, 2020

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Ouroboros – A Decentralized Packet Network

Ouroboros – A Decentralized Packet Network launched on January 15, 2020 with 116 votes, #253 of 3,486 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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In plain words

Ouroboros is a decentralized packet network launched in 2020. It enables users to send and receive data across a distributed system rather than through centralized servers. The platform is designed for anyone seeking an alternative to traditional network infrastructure, offering peer-to-peer communication capabilities. Its decentralized architecture allows participants to route packets independently, reducing reliance on single points of failure or central authorities.

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From the sources

Computer networking is a lot more complicated than it needs to be. Configuration and management of TCP/IP networks is an endeavor that can only be performed by highly trained experts. When integrating new appliances or re-racking and restructuring existing hardware in a data center, it is invariably the networking side of things that causes the most headaches as a lot of it needs to be manually re-configured, even in cases where a lot of the services are virtualized. The objective of this project is to simplify the network protocol stack so that it doesn't require an army of prized experts to understand and configure the infrastructure to run tomorrow's applications. Ouroboros (abbreviated…from ouroboros.rocks

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