I guess this just went up? Ticket link goes to "no upcoming events"
EDIT: "speakers"/"talks" link is also out of date, no info on 2025 yet
I would love to meet up with matrix, spritely, torrent and meshtastic nerds. I attended DWeb Camp in California for a couple of years and it felt balanced 50/50 between the P2P folk and the blockchain folk, which actually led to a lot of critical conversations but also the blockchain guys do want to distribute everything else too so it was good vibes all around, they just believe you have to incentivize sharing the load where us no-coiners have a little more faith in the altruistic side of man.
From their meetup.com: We organize physical meetings to discuss around P2P, decentralization, autonomous networks and communities, distributed systems, decentralized systems, offline-first apps, mesh networks, privacy, anti-surveillance, anti-censorship, security, cryptography, blockchains
Looks like past events had deep technical talks on libp2p's DHT (https://p2p.paris/en/talks/libp2p-dht/), and a novel gossip based pubsub protocol (https://p2p.paris/en/talks/gossipub/). Pretending that there is zero overlap between "crypto and blockchain bullshit" and p2p work is detrimental to everyone involved, there is serious p2p research and work being done both from crypto projects and from more traditional projects.
Yes there's also some crypto stuff there (both crypto-currency stuff like bitcoin security, but also general cryptography stuff like zk proofs and post-quantum cryptography), but I struggle to understand why people react so negatively to legitimately interesting research because it happens to be coming from the cryptocurrency space.
EDIT: "speakers"/"talks" link is also out of date, no info on 2025 yet
I would love to meet up with matrix, spritely, torrent and meshtastic nerds. I attended DWeb Camp in California for a couple of years and it felt balanced 50/50 between the P2P folk and the blockchain folk, which actually led to a lot of critical conversations but also the blockchain guys do want to distribute everything else too so it was good vibes all around, they just believe you have to incentivize sharing the load where us no-coiners have a little more faith in the altruistic side of man.
From their meetup.com: We organize physical meetings to discuss around P2P, decentralization, autonomous networks and communities, distributed systems, decentralized systems, offline-first apps, mesh networks, privacy, anti-surveillance, anti-censorship, security, cryptography, blockchains