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This appears to have a bit in common with an idea I was toying with a month or two ago. I see nothing in this implementation that actually encourages decentrali

This appears to have a bit in common with an idea I was toying with a month or two ago. I see nothing in this implementation that actually encourages decentralization, though. The economics of providing compute services certainly won't do it by themselves. We already have a networks of computers and ways to pay for them, and that has only encouraged centralization into a handful of cloud compute providers. I can certainly see how something like this can reduce the barrier to entry for becoming a small-time compute provider, but I don't see how it changes the economics: specialization and centralization (up to a point) is cheaper. Is there something I'm missing?

indigochill 6y ago
Well, as I think about it, it's interesting because although you're right that specialization and centralization is cheaper, if I'm Ordinary Joe and I want to make some money while my home PC would otherwise be idling, I can still sell my compute resources cheaper than someone running it as a serious business because anything is more than zero and I have essentially no upkeep costs to cover. Granted, that kind of resource is only fit for some kinds of workloads, and I could be thinking about it wrong. But if this holds up, then I'd think the bottom's about to drop out of the cost of low-requirement cloud computing even though I expect this will not challenge the optimized cloud giants for large workloads.