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Sure. Think about polling backends in mobile apps for example. Not just talking about twitter and facebook clients: The app that provides my bus tickets downloa
by Arnt 9y ago
Sure. Think about polling backends in mobile apps for example. Not just talking about twitter and facebook clients: The app that provides my bus tickets downloads the company's logo and a few other assets every few hours. A billion smartphone users, a few apps per phone, an asset or five per day, before you know it the numbers are big.
But I think you weren't interested in an answer like that, right? You wanted to criticise bitcoin, fairly or not.
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- wufufufu 9y agoBut you can optimize those things. Google's current logo is now 305 bytes. Also there's caching. The internet is not built on proof of work.
- agumonkey 9y agoI'd say gif memes are probably a lot more of a waste. So much bytes stored and streamed u_u; appalling
- Arnt 9y agoThat's a perfect example of the trend I tried to describe. "Let's download it every 12 hours but optimize that shrinking the file size to just 305 bytes and caching it on the CDN". For a logo that hasn't changed since before the app was first developed.