Pyre Browser

Pyre Browser is a Decentralized P2P browser that liberates the world from predatory markets. We created the project with a deep concern for the direction of the planet and environment.

It is a normal HTTPS browser (thats 44% faster than Firefox) but also has a secondary P2P internet. If I type in aol.com it will go to the main website. If I type in aol it will take you to a 404 page where you can purchase the domain. After the site is purchased you can upload a folder and save the checksum to the blockchain. Every time a user searches for your domain their client will look for a 7z folder with the same checksum as noted on the blockchain and download it from peers. If you want to change the website you just upload the new folder and save again (It costs 0.1 cent in Glimmer to do this). Each user is then prompted to download the new version from peers.

The project includes PyrETH - a web3 alternative that is 16x smaller in size than the original and embedded in the browser. It also includes Polkadot extrinsics for cross chain compatability natively. We created this to make injected web3 code much more intuitive and faster for web developers. The DNS server is hosted on Moonbeam and allows for instant purchase and reselling of web domains. Uploading updated websites costs a fraction of a cent for web owners and is done with a simple upload dropbox in the DNS panel.

A strange fact...

There are 200 million active websites and the average size of them is around 2mb. In total this is around 400 terabytes only.
200,000,000 x 2MB = 400TB
It costs around $3000 to buy a 500 terabyte harddrive - The entire hosted internet (excluding image/video data) could fit on $3000 worth of storage!

Using 7zip compression we can lower the total figure to 240 terabytes. This is nothing! ...and yet the hosting industry totals to around $600bn. Google, Microsoft and Amazon use around 60tWh of energy each year. This is more than the bottom 170 countries in the world