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Why would you need blockchain? For decades decentralized services worked without blockchain.
by foepys 5y ago
Why would you need blockchain? For decades decentralized services worked without blockchain.
- edoceo 5y agoBut bLoCkChAiN!!
- dane-pgp 5y agoA blockchain allows developers to out-source the running of a globally-available append-only log. Such a log is useful for building something like Trillian: https://transparency.dev/#trillian https://transparency.dev/#trillian
- aaronfitz 5y agoI was very confused by this comment until I realized that this is a different project from the Trillian messenger.
- rakoo 5y agoOk but how does a globally-available append-only log help distribute applications ? The technology is probably interesting, but it doesn't help solve the problem at hand
- dane-pgp 5y agoIf you can securely distribute the hash of the binary, you can probably also distribute a set of URLs representing where the binary can be downloaded from. Bittorrent would fit well as a way of distributing the apps themselves, as that ecosystem already uses magnet links, and developers could quite cheaply run a node which acts as a seed of last resort.
- rakoo 5y agoBittorrent has everything you'd need for distributing apps: of course the distribution of binaries is there, but it also has storing of arbitrary information, even mutable (http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0044.html http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0044.html). This way once you have a version you can fetch further versions by periodically polling the hash that contains the latest version.
- ique 5y agoWhy did they stop working?
- grishka 5y agoBecause corporations have too much control over what goes onto people's devices.