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S3 and blockchain have very different use cases right? Blockchain being for small quantities of data made immutable, used in a p2p manner with as many copies a
by foopod 5y ago
S3 and blockchain have very different use cases right?
Blockchain being for small quantities of data made immutable, used in a p2p manner with as many copies as there are peers.
S3 generally being purpose built for short term (relative to blockchain) storage and price.
- mcculley 5y agoYes, they have different uses cases. But one can easily see an arbitrage opportunity here for building an immortal database atop S3 (and other cloud services) for a lot less money. For $12,000 USD, I could store the same data in S3 for (at the very least) 445,217 years. (Using the example above.) That makes the value proposition of the Ethereum blockchain as a data store a lot less attractive.
- teawrecks 5y agoThis is so theoretical, I don't think it has any value. Meanwhile, consider the effort involved in destroying all data stored in S3 vs destroying the entire ETH blockchain. One is expensive, possibly only achievable by a national superpower, the other is virtually impossible without destroying the planet.
- mcculley 5y agoI fully realize the theoretical advantages of blockchains. I can still store multiple copies in multiple clouds across multiple availability zones cheaper. The original question did not imply the destruction of S3.