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>Blockchains are designed to be a network of peers, but not designed such that it’s really possible for your mobile device or your browser to be one of those pe
by tehnub 5y ago
>Blockchains are designed to be a network of peers, but not designed such that it’s really possible for your mobile device or your browser to be one of those peers. [...] With the shift to mobile, we now live firmly in a world of clients and servers – with the former completely unable to act as the latter
I've got a dumb question: Why can't the phone or browser act as a node? Are the computational requirements too expensive?
- Haydos585x2 5y agoMy understanding is that it's because the entire blockchain would need to be stored on the device which from even a data perspective is too much for a phone. The processing of data on the chain will also be too computationally difficult/expensive for the phone. You would either run out of battery immediately or the phone would crash.
- phgn 5y agoYour phone is not always online, running a node on it would mean frequent synchronisation every time you want to do something.