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Does Swarm’s closeness with the Ethereum means it will be unsuitable for any tasks which do not rely on financial incentives? For example, if in the future deb
by theamk 8y ago
Does Swarm’s closeness with the Ethereum means it will be unsuitable for any tasks which do not rely on financial incentives?
For example, if in the future debian is moved to IPFS, then many organizations are likely run local IPFS servers with Debian repos pinned. But if debian is moved to Swarm, I do not think that many organizations will be incentivized - the money are insignificant in the total spending, while engineering effort and organizational overhead (finance) is likely to be very big.
- caprese 8y agoWhy do you think that it would be different? "If Debian is moved to Swarm, then many organizations are likely to run local Swarm servers with Debian repos pinned"
- theamk 8y agoBecause from what I understand, Swarm requires Ethereum and a constant money flow. And the monthly amount of money is hard to predict. In many places I worked at, anything money related has huge overhead from finance department, and something more complex than “$X/mo” will require an immense amount of coordination and permissions.