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Nicely succinct explanation of this stance. As someone who agrees, I like this bit: "One of the most promising and new developments in recent years has been a
by andreyk 4y ago
Nicely succinct explanation of this stance. As someone who agrees, I like this bit:
"One of the most promising and new developments in recent years has been a renewed interest in building decentralized systems of all types. Many people are looking into building a system of decentralized identity and giving that control back to the users."
IE, decentralization is great, but blockchain type concensus building is rarely needed or useful in such systems imo.
- nonrandomstring 4y agoThere is a widening gulf in technology between what could or should be built and what is being done.
- usrn 4y agoThat's not new. There are mountains of awful software still being used. I just got done spending hours setting up a Windows VM for a student they needed because of an arbitrary requirement at their school.
- k__ 4y agoI think, it's not needed in a technical sense, but in a business sense. Take IPFS, for example. Decentralized hosting without a blockchain. Pretty nifty! Now, how do you make sure your stuff stays on the network in a similar decentralized way? Pinning it in your own node and paying pinning services is still centralized, Filecoin, on the other hand, is not.
- fwip 4y agoThere's nothing in Filecoin to ensure that your data is stored by a reputable party. Even if you store on ten replicas, they could all be the same lowest bidder in the same datacenter.
- SparkyMcUnicorn 4y agoSo just make sure you're using more than one region? And they do have a reputation system.
- fwip 4y agoRegion isn't provable, unless I'm missing some major fundamental advance in FileCoin.