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Why dat or quilt and not blockchain?
by kevinSuttle 9y ago
Why dat or quilt and not blockchain?
- tbv 9y agoA blockchain is an over-engineered solution to the problems we’re trying to solve. Blockchains provide shared global state. We don’t need that. https://beakerbrowser.com/docs/inside-beaker/other-technologies.html#why-not-a-blockchain https://beakerbrowser.com/docs/inside-beaker/other-technolog...
- jhoechtl 9y agoA blockchain is a rather weak database in itself. However to store pointers into a dht like Dat would be fine
- kevinSuttle 9y agoA rather weak database? How do you figure?
- pfraze 9y agoThis may not always be the case, but, so far, blockchains have low throughput and fat datasets that you have to sync. Compared to other databases, they don't perform that well, so if you don't need decentralized strict consensus, a blockchain isn't a good choice.