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biton: Re-build the Internet, together!

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The Internet potluck

Connect directly with your friends and explore a network of communities from around the world.

Locally sourced ingredients

A community kitchen for collectively creating content and services.

A taste of privacy

Fence off nosy neighbors and data‑greedy bullies.

Gourmet cryptography

Carefully crafted recipes to secure your communications.

Homemade trust

Replace central authorities with bottom-up trust models.

Mix and bake biton applications

A network stack with plug-and-play features for developers.

# The juicy details

biton is a peer-to-peer network built around swarms — groups of peers that store encrypted files and relay requests through one another. biton swarms interconnect in a global network that provides plausible deniability, meaning that adversaries cannot be sure about who originally made a request. In this way, biton can be used for evading information controls and for building community networks around local data and services.

Is biton anonymous? — NOT YET!

If you need to hide your identity, biton is not ready for that just yet. In the meantime, take a look at Tor (opens new window) and I2P (opens new window) for browsing anonymous services, or at Freenet (opens new window) for anonymous publishing.

# Come along and BYOb (*Bring Your Own biton)

Grow the network stronger by running a relay (opens new window), contributing to the project, building biton applications (opens new window), and volunteering to your local community kitchen.