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This looks interesting. Is it basically a hosting site you can pay for with crypto? This makes other things possible: anyone can pay for it using crypto etc?

This looks interesting. Is it basically a hosting site you can pay for with crypto? This makes other things possible: anyone can pay for it using crypto etc? I can imagine some use cases, but since you've been thinking about this a lot longer, can you say a little about: 1. Use cases 2. Long term vision for different paths along which you might see this evolve? Thanks in advance

justmoon2 8y ago
> I can imagine some use cases, but since you've been thinking about this a lot longer I don't know the future but I'm happy to give you my prediction in case it's interesting for you now and hilariously entertaining when we look back in ten years. > 1. Use cases We built it for fun but I could see myself using to quickly spin up small little hobby projects, kinda like how you might use Heroku. We've also talked about the idea of "open services". Think "open-source" where the source code is free, "open hardware" where the blueprints are free, so this would be services where both the code and the data are free. You could fork the whole service including data kinda like a blockchain but without having to have the overhead of a decentralized service. You don't need Codius for that but open-services seem to mash more nicely with the anyone-can-pay mentality of Codius than just running on someone's AWS account. Another use case is if somebody wants to create a decentralized application, today they have to run around recruiting hosts. I used to work at Ripple and we'd run around and ask people to please run validators. It required a whole team and a lot of Powerpoint to get to a decent number. Many other projects like BigchainDB went through a similar process. Codius basically makes this a one click affair, you just upload to whatever hosts you want, publish the source code and anyone can verify that the hosts claim to be running the code you say you uploaded. So people have to trust a majority of the hosts (which all distributed consensus systems provably require) but not you as the uploader. Another idea we had was beneficial digital organisms. We already have "viruses", i.e. programs that replicate without permission. But Codius provides a platform where programs can run by paying without having to steal computing resources. So you could imagine programs that earn money and then pay to run longer or on more hosts. > 2. Long term vision for different paths along which you might see this evolve? I just started a company called Coil which is building tech so websites can make money. I think this could come together with Codius to make websites that earn money from users visiting them and then pay for their own hosting. Those websites could in principle survive their creators by centuries. I think that's pretty cool. Obviously, all of these ideas have been talked about by others long before Codius but my pitch for Codius would be that it's a nice and pragmatic, web-y way to do it vs the clunky, blockchain-based approach.

justmoon2 8y ago

> I can imagine some use cases, but since you've been thinking about this a lot longer I don't know the future but I'm happy to give you my prediction in case it's interesting for you now and hilariously entertaining when we look back in ten years. > 1. Use cases We built it for fun but I could see myself using to quickly spin up small little hobby projects, kinda like how you might use Heroku. We've also talked about the idea of "open services". Think "open-source" where the source code is free, "open hardware" where the blueprints are free, so this would be services where both the code and the data are free. You could fork the whole service including data kinda like a blockchain but without having to have the overhead of a decentralized service. You don't need Codius for that but open-services seem to mash more nicely with the anyone-can-pay mentality of Codius than just running on someone's AWS account. Another use case is if somebody wants to create a decentralized application, today they have to run around recruiting hosts. I used to work at Ripple and we'd run around and ask people to please run validators. It required a whole team and a lot of Powerpoint to get to a decent number. Many other projects like BigchainDB went through a similar process. Codius basically makes this a one click affair, you just upload to whatever hosts you want, publish the source code and anyone can verify that the hosts claim to be running the code you say you uploaded. So people have to trust a majority of the hosts (which all distributed consensus systems provably require) but not you as the uploader. Another idea we had was beneficial digital organisms. We already have "viruses", i.e. programs that replicate without permission. But Codius provides a platform where programs can run by paying without having to steal computing resources. So you could imagine programs that earn money and then pay to run longer or on more hosts. > 2. Long term vision for different paths along which you might see this evolve? I just started a company called Coil which is building tech so websites can make money. I think this could come together with Codius to make websites that earn money from users visiting them and then pay for their own hosting. Those websites could in principle survive their creators by centuries. I think that's pretty cool. Obviously, all of these ideas have been talked about by others long before Codius but my pitch for Codius would be that it's a nice and pragmatic, web-y way to do it vs the clunky, blockchain-based approach.