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Anyone else a programmer/tech person that thinks blockchain is awful for storing information? Centralized servers are extremely good at what they do. I feel li
by mkirklions 9y ago
Anyone else a programmer/tech person that thinks blockchain is awful for storing information?
Centralized servers are extremely good at what they do. I feel like most of the time blockchain isnt needed unless things need to be decentrally verified.
I was considering doing my own 'cryptocurrency', but I decided a centralized server was better for doing the job at hand.
- Geee 9y agoYou might have had misconceptions about the blockchain, but you seem to have come to the correct conclusion. It is awful for storing information, and it's generally not meant for storing information. Obviously you can combine traditional servers and blockchain in a such way that the system is completely decentralized, such as Sia https://sia.tech/ https://sia.tech/.
- ghthor 9y agoIt seems like a really good way to store small pieces of information that aren't changed very often. Such as Name System Registry entries. It works really well for this type of use case, and name registries are good things to be distributed. Using an EVM based blockchain allows me as an engineer to get strong identity, authorization and storage guarantees for free, leaving me to focus on the logic and systems around how names are changed and what those names mean.