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> Can Ethereum Help? Of course not. No amount of blockchain magic can obviate the need for physical infrastructure to host a large web service. (No, "it'll be
by duskwuff 6y ago
> Can Ethereum Help?
Of course not. No amount of blockchain magic can obviate the need for physical infrastructure to host a large web service.
(No, "it'll be distributed" or "it'll be on the blockchain" aren't viable solutions.)
- coryfklein 6y agoI'm not an Ethereum expert, but I don't think it's typical blockchain stuff. TBH I find Ethereum extremely confusing, but it seems to bill itself more as "distributed compute units" instead.
- duskwuff 6y agoIt's still a blockchain, just a more complicated one. The "distributed compute" capabilities of Ethereum are entirely a property of its consensus algorithm; as such, they're extremely limited, and cannot interact with external entities or store significant amounts of data.