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yay, blockchain. :( https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766085037248512 https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766085037248512 "Finally, new technologies have em
by sonofgod 7y ago
yay, blockchain. :(
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766085037248512 https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766085037248512
"Finally, new technologies have emerged to make a decentralized approach more viable. Blockchain points to a series of decentralized solutions for open and durable hosting, governance, and even monetization. Much work to be done, but the fundamentals are there."
- treelovinhippie 7y agoAll blockchains fundamentally do not scale. Global universal consensus and a global centralized datastore (ledger) is an anti-pattern found nowhere in nature. If the Twitter team go for a blockchain stack, they're doing so for the mass surveillance and control feature. P2P is the way: see Holochain, Scuttlebutt etc.
- mackrevinack 7y agoor the Safe Network as well
- nenolod 7y agoActually a hybrid approach is the way. Nobody wants to wait hours to download GBs of new gossip to get started. Streaming the gossip is necessary to make the technology viable.