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+# GUN
+
+## Stats
+
+11K+ [github](https://github.com/amark/gun) stars
+3M ~ 30M [downloads](https://www.jsdelivr.com/package/npm/gun) monthly 
+
+## Whitepaper
+
+https://stanford.edu/~nadal/A-Decentralized-Data-Synchronization-Protocol.pdf
+
+## Stack
+
+ - [ERA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HJdrBk3BlE) (economic system)
+ - [AXE](http://axe.eco) (routing)
+ - [DAM](https://gun.eco/docs/DAM) (networking)
+ - [RAD](https://gun.eco/docs/RAD) (storage)
+ - [SEA](https://gun.eco/docs/SEA) (security)
+ - [GUN](http://gun.eco) (data)
+ - [HAM](https://gun.eco/distributed/matters.html) (conflict resolution)
+
+## Bluesky
+
+ - Creating customizable interfaces: See [Party](https://party.lol/) which reuses any existing website (gmail, twitter, Facebook, reddit, etc.) for E2EE messages.
+ - Communities setting norms: See my article on [emotionally intelligent social networks](https://hackernoon.com/a-new-kind-of-social-network-emotional-intelligence-e45dcddb1bdb), also check out the wild [Notabug](https://notabug.io/t/notabug/comments/59382d2a08b7d7073415b5b6ae29dfe617690d74/welcome-to-notabug) experiment.
+ - Keeping public conversation from fragmenting: Check out ["How to fix the internet"](https://hackernoon.com/what-is-wrong-with-the-internet-and-how-to-fix-it-c67w32no) by [Martti Malmi](https://twitter.com/marttimalmi) (Satoshi's 1st Bitcoin contributor) which is exactly this.
+
+## Network structure
+
+Decentralized/p2p.
+
+Uses data replication via message passing.
+
+It daisy-chains, [routes](https://gun.eco/docs/Routing), & relays messages.
+
+Think of it as doing also what the internet, routers, switches, etc. already does.
+
+But also works over most existing transports: WebRTC, UDP multicast, TCP/HTTP -> Websocket, etc.
+
+## Identity
+
+Iris adds a [reputation system](https://medium.com/@mmalmi/learning-to-trust-strangers-167b652a654f) to SEA which provides the underlying cryptographic Security, Encryption, & Authorization.
+
+The most important differentiating factor is that we support multi-device login that is cryptographically secure yet uses "normal" UX.
+
+This technique can be extended to secure password resets (no servers)
+
+And, password recovery using a 3-Friend-Authorization approach that we cutely call 3FA (please don't use this with your Bitcoins).
+
+- Decentralized identity (ECDSA)
+- Key management (Iris)
+  - Key verification (Iris)
+  - Key backup (GUN+SEA)
+- Reputation, Trust (Iris)
+- Account recovery (3FA)
+- Privacy (ECDH, AES)
+
+#### Data
+
+- Data models (graphs, key/value, document, table, relational, hyper-graphs)
+- Data availability ([AP](https://gun.eco/docs/CAP-Theorem), strongly eventually consistent)
+
+#### Money
+
+- Business models (Open Source, donation, enterprise, + decentralized PaaS, dBaaS, SaaS, Marketplace)
+- Payment (AXE bandwidth credits)
+
+#### Filtering
+
+- Queries (GUN, [GraphQL](https://github.com/brysgo/graphql-gun), historical prototypes of SQL, Mango [Mongo])
+- Curation (Iris, also see [NAB](https://notabug.io/t/notabug/comments/59382d2a08b7d7073415b5b6ae29dfe617690d74/welcome-to-notabug))
+
+#### Moderation
+
+Iris and NAB (see above link).
+
+- Protocol level (no)
+- Server level (no)
+- User level (yes)
+- Content level (yes)
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