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I think you're missing what is interesting about this, from a technical point of view. This is neat, and novel: > "Ads displayed above are loaded directly fro
by strictnein 9y ago
I think you're missing what is interesting about this, from a technical point of view.
This is neat, and novel:
> "Ads displayed above are loaded directly from the Ethereum Blockchain. This Decentralized Application (DApp) does not have a traditional backend. No MVC framework, no SQL database. It's just a JavaScript application served statically from Github which speaks to the Ethereum blockchain using Web3.js."
That they're profiting from it is just an amusing side effect, imo.
- runeks 9y agoThat is cool! But, if this DApp thing takes off, how will Ethereum nodes be compensated for essentially acting as a free CDN? It works fine as long as there aren’t a lot of users, but once the user count become substantial, Ethereum nodes will need compensation in order to serve the amount of data needed. Is there a workable solution for this?
- ontoillogical 9y agoThe images are actually hosted over http (or ipfs or swarm). The former requires you to find a host, and the later two have ways of compensating for traffic :)