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

You can build and serve this with gitbook. 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.

Other Projects

Scuttlebutt is not the only project working in a decentralised encrypted space. Here are a few other projects also working on solutions:

• Matrix
• Bitcoin
• Ethereum
• Zerocoin
• MaidSafe
• IPFS
• Dat
• Solid
• cjdns