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Show HN: Decentralised Twitter – Microblogging on the Ethereum Blockchain
- gremlinsinc 11y agoInteresting concept, not sure I'd want to pay per tweet though, even 1/3rd of a cent..
- yep171 11y agoYes, sure, having to pay for each tweet is a drawback compared to the commercial version of Twitter. Please note there's a donation mechanism [1]. If others like what you write, there's a chance you can get back some of the money you spent on tweeting ;) Still, using blockchain technology has positive aspects, like some kind of censorship resistance. That is, if some country is going to block access to Twitter again: who knows, can this be an alternative? Not saying access to the ethereum network can't be blocked at all, though. [1] https://github.com/yep/eth-tweet/blob/master/TweetAccount.sol#L83 https://github.com/yep/eth-tweet/blob/master/TweetAccount.so...
- ollifi 11y agoI think it would be decent tradeoff to not be spammed and datamined (although datamining certainly is possible as it is an open system).
- AznHisoka 11y agoI would love to see Twitter adopt this. Any tweet with an external link - you must pay 1/3 cent. Let's see which tweets you really deem important to tweet!
- oceanallin 11y agoHow big would be a standalone binary for this ?
- spacemanspiffii 11y agoCan't be too big! That could be a great project, perhaps an easy entrance for many into Ethereum technologies.
- unusximmortalis 11y agobesides payment how's this different than this http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.7152v1.pdf http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.7152v1.pdf https://github.com/miguelfreitas/twister-html https://github.com/miguelfreitas/twister-html
- aianus 11y agoThe payment aspect is what ensures that a big distributed network will actually store and serve your tweets. Any single given application on Ethereum (except straight-up value transfer as seen in Bitcoin) isn't compelling enough to have its own network, but together they are.
- UserRights 11y agoHow big will the blockchain become? I have not read much about Ethereum and not a deep understanding of every technical aspect regarding blockchains, however I understand that most applications just are not practical with endlessly growing blockchains. Does Ethereum a solution for that?
- imglorp 11y agoOne needn't store the data on blockchains, just a hash to it, or even a hash of many data blocks' hashes, etc.
- pjc50 11y agoWell, someone has to store and transmit the actual content at some point, and for real twitter there's a total volume of 400 million tweets a day...
- Quiark 11y agoThey are calling this the 'scalability problem' and are researching it as well. I think the general idea is to divide the blockchain into shards with some links in between.
- ktt 11y agoSee also something similar using Bitcoin: http://eternitywall.it/ http://eternitywall.it/
- phantom_oracle 11y agoWhat language are the .sol files written in? I have never seen that file extension before, but the language looks to be C-derived.
- a-priori 11y agoIt's for Solidity, a language created by the Ethereum folks for writing smart contracts. https://ethereum.github.io/solidity/ https://ethereum.github.io/solidity/
- KenanSulayman 11y agohttps://solidity.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ https://solidity.readthedocs.org/en/latest/