I am totally new to this blockstack business, so please forgive the naive question. The way I understand it, blockstack should not need the regular internet. It has some blockchain magic that replaces DNS in favor of some block chain decentralized goodness. Is that a feature that’s coming in the future or is it already here?
All the examples on the start page seem to live on regular old websites accessed through regular old domain names like http://blockstack-todos.appartisan.com/
It looks like the identity and data store is provided through this Blockstack Browser app that appears to communicate via a local webhost. This is interesting by itself, but it still requires the regular web to use it
I also see OpenBazaar https://www.openbazaar.org/ that wants you to download an executable. I haven’t downloaded it but i assume that it will communicate with the Blockstack Browser for identity and data store, though I am unclear on how data is shared. The regular internet was still the way you got to the executable.
It sounds like Blockstack should be able to exist independent of the regular internet, but all the examples seem to be build on the regular internet. I imagine I am just misunderstanding some of the concepts here, but where does the concept of a new internet come in, if it needs the existing one to work?
