web3.js VS bee

Are you not talking about https://github.com/ethereumproject/web3.js? That’s built on Ethereum to encourage use of their microtransaction-based service.

> BUT to solely focus on them is to ignore a real core of interesting computer science advances.

Examples? Specifically, which advances are you referring to which solve a problem other than “now you can do something you could do before but by paying me instead”?

First commit in this repo is Sept 2014:

https://github.com/ethereumproject/web3.js/commits/develop?a...

Deployed Bee to the mainnet (v1.14.1).

Are you mixing up projects? https://www.ethswarm.org/

You can download the most recent bee packages here: https://github.com/ethersphere/bee/releases/latest

February was a big month for the Swarm network. The price of postage stamps has been recalibrated with the release of Bee 1.20, which marks a major milestone for Swarm’s self-sustaining network. The Research Track has also completed the documentation for Phase 4, which details the work of this phase of the Storage incentives roadmap.

There is a project called Swarm that does exactly this.

https://www.ethswarm.org

(Disclosure: I am working on the project)

https://www.ethswarm.org/ is like storj (stores the file as chunks of data) but more secure and censorship resistant.

In short, there will be five phases to the upgrade (you can expect a more detailed blog on the topic soon). Phase 1 started on 13 September with the breaking release of Bee 1.8.0. This phase will be followed by four other phases that will upgrade the storage incentives mechanism, recalibrate the network, change the storage price, introduce a decentralised price oracle and improve the overall state of the network.

There were two versions of the Bee client released in the last month. It is important to mention that node operators are requested to update to the latest version (1.7.0) as soon as possible because there was a change in the protocol.