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ssb handbook 
A work-in-progress guide to the ssb-verse and key concepts and influences
What is Scuttlebutt?
Historically, sea-slang for gossip - a scuttlebutt is basically a watercooler on a ship.
Scuttlebutt is a decent(ralised) secure gossip platform.
This seems like a silly name, but I assure you, this is real science. Read this: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/rvr/papers/flowgossip.pdf
Or, if you're lazy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttlebutt (laziness will get you nowhere, btw)
About This Handbook
To view the public gitbook, browse to https://mixmix.gitbooks.io/ssb-handbook/content/.
You can also build and serve this with gitbook locally. The following assumes you're running a scuttlebot server and are in the follow neighbourhood of mixmix or his pub.
npm install gitbook-cli git-ssb -g
git clone ssb://%lJsDWwnF4bDxHWYuSjw/bW37xg+saF8WtPZYZsefKj0=.sha256 ssb-handbook
cd ssb-handbook
gitbook install
gitbook serve
The SUMMARY.md is the manifest on which the compiled gitbook is based. Edit that if you want content in/out of the book.
If you see a job that needs doing - that is your job.
Other Projects
Scuttlebutt is not the only project working in a decentralised space. Here are a few other projects also working on solutions:
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