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Maidsafe ... should be a solution to the datacenter problem. Ultimately we want to aim for a completely decentralized/distributed internet where a virtually inf

by martin1975 11y ago

Maidsafe ... should be a solution to the datacenter problem. Ultimately we want to aim for a completely decentralized/distributed internet where a virtually infinite amount of available resources (CPU+storage+bandwidth) can be summoned on demand from anyone participating in the network, -AND- expect people to get paid for donating these resources. I remember an HN article like a week or two ago on IPFS, another step in the right direction.. This will be the undoing of the datacenters - the problem is, there's ZERO incentive for the millions of connected users to donate their resources and unless this changes, the decentralized internet will remain a pipe dream. The problem with Maidsafe is they've been working on it forever....

shalmanese 11y ago
Even if you get around all of the other problems, you can't escape latency. There's still going to be significant advantages to co-locating a bunch of computation for some non-trivial percentage of needs.
nostrademons 11y ago
...which is the problem with all completely-distributed, server-less Internet schemes. Hell, I was working in this space when I was in college in 2002. There were a lot of people interested in it then, probably even moreso than now, and yet it was a complete tarpit that yielded very few long-lived results (BitTorrent, basically - even Kazaa and the rest of the music filesharing apps ended up getting replaced by centralized systems). It's an area where I really wish someone would succeed, but having worked on some massively-distributed systems at Google in the intervening years, I'm skeptical that it's possible.