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I am amused by the mental gymnastics deployed by Ethereum holders such as "It was meant to have high fees", or "High fees keep it decentralized". Guess what, Bi
by jbirer 5y ago
I am amused by the mental gymnastics deployed by Ethereum holders such as "It was meant to have high fees", or "High fees keep it decentralized". Guess what, BitTorrent is decentralized they charge nothing. It's okay to admit that you made a wrong investment / choice and pick another option, you can always change mind and pick a better option (I will not recommend or shill any one of them here).
- poisonborz 5y ago...and look at the sea of unseeded torrents, basically all that is older than a few weeks and not backed by some paid/autseeded tracker or devout datahoarder (not defending Ethereum's approach here though).
- soco 5y agoIf people are not interested anymore on that torrent, it disappears. Same how it happens with an IPFS file.
- jdmichal 5y agoExcept, there's not really a clear signal of "Hey, a bunch of people want this!" unless they all just hop on the torrent and hope for a seeder to join. If I go to a store and they don't have bread, I'm not waiting for their next bread delivery for them to stock the aisles...
- tzs 5y agoIs comparing Ethereum costs to BitTorrent costs reasonable? They are both decentralized, but they do completely different things. It seems it would be like if I compared the price of gasoline ($3.80/gallon here) to the price of water ($0.00018/gallon if I use a lot, 25% less if I use an ordinary amount) and said this shows that gasoline is way overpriced because they are both liquids.