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Will a hyper connected fiber optic globally available IPv6 enabled internet convert the globe into a distributed data center (or just a real network) instead of
by arithma 9y ago
Will a hyper connected fiber optic globally available IPv6 enabled internet convert the globe into a distributed data center (or just a real network) instead of the clusters of centralization?
Maybe, akin to all the new startup's that don't actually own the infrastructure (Uber/Cars, Airbnb/Housing, Amazon/Retail), a startup could enable with the existing resources to rent people's machine's to each other.
- pythonaut_16 9y agoYou should be able to tie that in as a Proof of Work of some sort on a blockchain right? Not to bring everything back to buzzwords, but that actually seems like an interesting application of blockchain tech, letting people rent out their otherwise idle desktops to process and serve web services.
- arithma 9y agoEthereum (for example) can be used to pay if the contract is fulfilled (e.g an intense computation job.) 1. You need to be able to verify that the other party is honest 2. When the data is intensive, you need to make sure that the computation is opaque to the computer. This is still an active research area, I believe. One of the keywords I associate with it is homomorphic encryption. Alternatively, consensus or verification can be done, with other zero-knowledge proofs or something similar perhaps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption