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features	title details The Internet potluck Connect directly with your friends and explore a network of communities from around the world. title details Locally sourced ingredients A community kitchen for collectively creating content and services. title details A taste of privacy Fence off nosy neighbors and data‑greedy bullies. title details Gourmet cryptography Carefully crafted recipes to secure your communications. title details Homemade trust Replace central authorities with bottom-up trust models. title details Mix and bake biton applications A network stack with plug-and-play features for developers.
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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interconnect in a global network that provides plausible deniability, meaning that adversaries cannot be sure about who originally made a request.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.

::: warning 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 and I2P for browsing anonymous services, or at Freenet for anonymous publishing. :::

Come along and BYOb (*Bring Your Own biton)

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