Irreversible Internet — Archive

For truly illegal content (CSAM, state secrets), the IIA includes a : a “poison block.” A supermajority of stewards can cryptographically blind a specific hash so that nodes stop serving it, while the chain remains intact. The content is not deleted—its retrieval is disabled globally by consensus. This is used only in extreme, legally defined cases. How You Can Use the IIA Today (Prototype Steps) Until a full global IIA exists, you can implement a personal version:

# 1. Archive a webpage irreversibly curl -s https://example.com/article | sha256sum > hash.txt ipfs add -r ./article_dir echo "$(date -Iseconds) | $(cat hash.txt) | ipfs://Qm..." >> ~/my_archive_ledger.txt gpg --clearsign ~/my_archive_ledger.txt 3. Broadcast to public IPFS pinning services ipfs pin remote add --service=pinata --name="irreversible-archive" Qm... irreversible internet archive

The Problem: The Fading Web The average lifespan of a webpage is 100 days. Links rot (404 rate grows 0.5% annually), social media posts vanish, governments delete records, and platforms rewrite history. The current internet is not an archive—it is a stream. Once something passes out of view, it is effectively gone unless someone deliberately preserved it. For truly illegal content (CSAM, state secrets), the