Discorn is an encrypted and decentralized chatting protocol based on cryptocurrencies.

• Latest Discorn Library documentation
• Latest Discorn Protocol documentation

Contributions are made via GitHub issues and pull requests. Gitsokyo is now only a mirror.

Fork the project on github then clone your fork. The project runs Python 3.8. Dependencies are managed using Pipenv.

Development environement :

~ git clone <fork url>
~ cd Discorn
~ pipenv sync --dev

Building Library Documentation (results are in doc/sphinx_src/build/html/)

~ make sphinx

Building Protocol Documentation (requires pdflatex, results are in doc/sphinx_src/build/html/)

~ make latex

Building the UI files (GUI)

~ make ui

Discorn is still in Developpement phase. It is absolutely not usable in any way.

~ git clone https://moriya.zapto.org/gitsokyo/Discorn/Discorn.git
~ cd Discorn
~ pipenv install

~ make gui && python -m Gui.main

Here's how it looks so far.

Computers bring with them a brand new problem: It has become hard to get forgotten.
Everything one shares with a company over the internet is potentially stored forever.
Malicious entities such as potential future governments might use such data against part of the population and endanger democracy.

We defend a basic right to privacy and we are going to claim it no matter what thanks to cryptography.

Encrypted and Federated chatting apps exists. The main example is obviously Matrix
However, Federated software is flawed: They are instance based, and running a personnal instance is hard, requires perfoming hardware and requires registering a Domain Name. About matrix, it lacks several features that makes private alternatives more interesting.

But why Federated ? Let's go fully decentralized.

Bitcoin shows a new way of creating software over the Internet, and beyond. Its fundamentals are:

• A decentralized consensus (about order of events and current time),
• Incentivising node owners to help secure the network by taking part in the vote.

Such a system can be used for many applications and it has been.

What does the end user win when using Discorn?
Privacy is the main one. Discorn is mainly inspired by Discord, as we find that Discord is more or less the way chatting app should look like. But Discorn is open-source and decentralized, this means that people will be able to modify Discorn as they wish with no fear of getting banned, and potentially will have more features than Discord.

Discorn is inspired by Bitcoin, Cryptonote and Discord, so we will use concepts from them.

Discorn will be organised in Guilds.
A Guild is either owned by someone or is fully decentralized. To each Guild is attached a Blockchain and Cryptocurrency and a Database of events. The Blockchain's proof of work algorithm is Cryptonight, as we believe cpu-mining is what we should aim for.