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Umm, I don't think I agree with you on the idea that decentralization decreases costs for contract distribution. Distributing content to millions of people req
by stale2002 8y ago
Umm, I don't think I agree with you on the idea that decentralization decreases costs for contract distribution.
Distributing content to millions of people requires massive investment.
The total cost would likely INCREASE massively, as my home computer is much worse at acting as a CDN than Google.
Sure, the costs get DISTRIBUTED, to places where maybe you aren't the one paying for it. But SOMEONE is still paying that money. And they are doing much less efficient than a centralized service with thousands of engineers.
- thevardanian 8y agoYou don't run your website, necessarily, on a local home computer, why would you assume the same for this?
- stale2002 8y agoSo it's not decentralized then? I thought that was the entire point. But even if it is not literal home PCs, and is instead some sort of middle road between massive company and home PC, my point still stands. Your 10 person company hosting content isn't going to be able to stream it live to 20 thousand people. That takes lots and lots of money and engineering talent to do right.