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Update the protocol to securely track who uploaded what, to whom, and you've got a market just like private solar panel owners and the energy grid. Pay the 1mbp
by losteric 8y ago
Update the protocol to securely track who uploaded what, to whom, and you've got a market just like private solar panel owners and the energy grid. Pay the 1mbps and gigabit civilians proportional to how much they share.
It's entertaining to expand the idea beyond bandwidth...what about CPU/gpu time on my powerful consumer desktop sitting idle/off all day? Or storage space? The computer would need to be on to seed... Would people pay to also use the idle compute capacity?
Security is a problem, but it could be used to segment customers and providers. (Big corporations bidding for AWS capacity, tiny personal sites hosted on a CDN of cheap consumer hardware).
Tagline it "Uber for the cloud"!
- remcob 8y agoFilecoin[1] is doing that for storage+bandwidth and Golem is pursuing the CPU/GPU time idea. [1]: https://filecoin.io https://filecoin.io [2]: https://golem.network https://golem.network