Russian Farcaster: How Bastyon Works (as Russia bans Discord)

Bastyon is a decentralized social media protocol in which posts are blockchain transactions while text, images and video are stored off-chain, according to an interview with lead developer Daniel Satchkov conducted by Simplified Privacy. Every node stores all post data, so any node a user connects to is interchangeable, which the article says is critical for reaching the network across a firewall. Bastyon has no official foundation or development funds, and Satchkov said "everyone chips in." The article also reports a total Pkoin supply of 24 million 375 thousand and a market cap of over 8 million USD at the time of writing.