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#105-Where is BitTorrent's Maelstrom browser now?

On December 10, 2014, BitTorrent announced project Maelstrom's invite-only alpha on its official blog. The purpose of the project was to build a decentralized web. The post said that Maelstrom was going to be a "web browser that can power a new way for web content to be published, accessed and consumed." Its aim was altruistic, to put the power of the internet in the hands of people. The present architecture of the internet is centralized, at multiple levels. Our private life is not so private, at least not to the big corporations. There is a limited oversight on corporations that handle personal data of billions of internet users. On April 10, 2015, Maelstrom entered beta. At that point, the project had over 10,000 developers and a developer toolset. The beta version had interesting features such as DHT visualization. That means when you clicked on a magnet link in Maelstrom, you could see how the file is searched in the peer-to-peer internet in a stunning real-time an...