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These ideas are all the wrong direction to decentralize. We don't need more layers and more complexity and more blockchains, we need simple, reliable, accessibl
by pmlnr 7y ago
These ideas are all the wrong direction to decentralize. We don't need more layers and more complexity and more blockchains, we need simple, reliable, accessible household appliances. For storage, for sharing, for posting.
Please stop adding layers and layers of calculations, it's a waste of energy.
- gnode 7y ago> Please stop adding layers and layers of calculations, it's a waste of energy. The trend in electronics is that this has become less true over time. As transistors have shrunk, the relative cost of calculation has diminished compared to the cost of transmission over distances. A cryptographic operation can be cheap compared to accessing main memory because the distances signals travel within the crypto logic block are tiny. Complexity (as in more to understand) does not equate sensibly to higher power consumption.
- anonymous5133 7y agoFrom what I understand, right now these projects are working on the backbone of the systems. In the future, other developers will be able to create services on top of these platforms to resell the storage space. So maybe someone will have an online cloud hosting service with a simple drag and drop online interface. They will charge a fee to the customer and the website operator will simply buy storage contracts on SIA or similar providers to provide the actual hosting and distribution of the files.
- filebase 7y agoYou would be correct! Filebase[1] provides S3-compatible object storage at a fraction of the price. We happily use Sia on our backend. :) [1] https://filebase.com https://filebase.com