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Sure, all data is on other people's servers, but the point is that you have tamper-proof, globally distributed, redundant copies of that data. Storing a piece o
by riverlong 5y ago
Sure, all data is on other people's servers, but the point is that you have tamper-proof, globally distributed, redundant copies of that data. Storing a piece of data on Ethereum is way different from hosting it on a single cloud machine.
- mentat 5y agoYes, and a few orders of magnitude more expensive.
- bronzejaguar 5y agoStoring data on Ethereum is absurdly expensive, but further, it simply provides a different value proposition than running your own personal server. These ideas aren’t mutually exclusive, nor can they reasonably serve the same needs.
- fake-name 5y agoYou can do all those things without a blockchain.