Retroshare - A decentralized, Anonymized Messaging, File Transfer Client

Retroshare is an open-source, cross platform decentralized chat, messaging, and file transfer client. If any of you are familiar with IRC it is some of the features of the chatroom. If you are used to instant messengers it has those. A forums feature which is similar to usenet. Finally a anonymous file search and transfer capability. 

What makes this different than anything else out there, is that it is encrypted. It uses friend to friend method to share PGP keys so that you can create a web of trust between your friends. Links between the application and the rest of the web of trust uses SSL. Also since it is also decentralized then you don't have to worry about a server going down and not being able to connect with friends. Some of the core features:

• Serverless, completely decentralised
• Multiple simultaneous downloads / uploads
• Search Friends
• Messages
• Forums
• Channels
• Voice over IP
• Instant messaging
• Groupchat
• GnuPG Authentication
• OpenSSL Encryption
• adding downloads via website links
• Plugins support
• UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support
• Graphical User Interface written with Qt4 toolkit
• System tray integration

 If you are interested in Retroshare visit: http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/  for more information and to get a jump start you can join the automated chatroom. https://www.f2f-fr.net/w2c/en/

If you need some more help please post a comment below and I can assist you. One thing to keep in mind you have to share your full keys with each other.

Over a year since my last post.

So there have been a lot of changes the past year or so. I am not really involved with bitcoin as much as I used to be. Getting into something else similarly related and that is RetroShare. It is a decentralized, encrypted secure communications platform. I would call it a friend to friend anonymized web of trust type of network.

Other things going on is that we are working towards self sufficiency very slowly. Our garden that we have worked on for a while has grown and produced very well. Hoping to expand to a fence at some point this year,but the process is slow on a halved income. 

I am hoping to post a lot more, and update the blog with some of the other podcasts that I have done. I haven't gone further than 7 episodes. I just don't know if people are interested, as some of the streaming software I use will cost me $200 to use.  Part of me would like to continue with it.but it was a lot of work to do a show on the schedule that I was. Perhaps when things start to turn around I will get back into it. But I am trying to find hobbies that cost little to no money and I am having a really hard time finding anything. Other than getting on to a computer, but I do that all day for my work anyway it is the last thing that I want to be doing.

Sill playing eve, currently director of a pretty good corporation that is developing and growing. So anyway I will leave this post here. If your reading this please let me know.