[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#820553: RFP: blockstack-server -- A server that handles the core functionality of building the global Internet database

[Carlo Stemberger]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : blockstack-server
  Version         : Git
  Upstream Author : Muneeb Ali <muneeb at ali.vc>, Jude Nelson <judecn at gmail.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-server
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : A server that handles the core functionality of building the global Internet database

Blockstack server provides decentralized DNS by using an underlying
blockchain. It enables human-readable name registrations on the Bitcoin
blockchain, along with the ability to store associated data in external
datastores. You can use it to register globally unique names, bind data
records with those names, and transfer them between Bitcoin addresses.
Anyone can perform lookups on those names and securely obtain the
associated data records.

Blockstack uses the Bitcoin blockchain for storing name operations and
data hashes, and the Kademlia-based distributed hash table (DHT) and
other external datastores for storing the full data files outside of the
blockchain.