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The browser portion of the application does not need to be served from the internet. Dapps (decentralized apps), if they are well designed, do not require anything other than a copy of the HTML/JavaScript and access to a copy of the Ethereum Foundation blockchain (better yet: access to node receiving new transactions - but that's not necessary for historical reads). In fact, this application doesn't even have a website where it is hosted - that's unnecessary from a strictly technical point of view.

If you're okay with high latency (i.e. you are primarily reading from blocks, not writing new transactions, which is probably an accurate profile for the /consumption/ of censored data), then a full copy of the Ethereum Foundation blockchain could be carried on a $40 microSD card and carried (or flown, or dropped), well, anywhere.



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