Qortal

Logo for Qortal from https://qortal.org/

Qortal is meant to be a replacement for the internet.

Excellent interview by Freedom's Phoenix Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock interviewing Quortal's Jason Crowe on 12/14/2023: https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/355136-2023-12-13-2023-12-14-ernest-interviews-jason-crowe-qortal-mp3.htm

Logo for Ernest Hancock's Declare Your Independence podcast.

https://qortal.org/

• Blockchain-based
• New framework for economic system (monetization implications)
• They say "egalitarian," but instead I'd call their approach a meritocracy
  • The time you've had a node up = merit
  • Participation = merit

https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=what_is_the_qortal_project

• "White paper," essentially but outdated. Written in July 2021.
• Encryption by default
• Decentralized
• Freedom of speech platforms
• Mesh network (swap backbones when enough people are involved)
• Blockchain technology: codebase is law, 60% vote to change
• "Minting" rather than mining, neither PoW nor PoS
• First step is to get level 5+ or Founder sponsorship, followed by 7200 blocks to become level 1. Then you are a minter.
• (Issue: democracy does NOT inherently ensure liberty, see H. H. Hoppe's Democracy: The God That Failed, however I'm still hopeful that Qortal will work. Time will tell!)
• At least some storage via IPFS (will need to see if this is, in fact, what has been done since then)
• Blockchains can be created within Qortal, but they seem to have a lot of rules on what a blockchain can/can't be. Enforced by the QORT blockchain.
• Full node can be run on Raspberry Pi 4