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No cryptocurrency or Web3 platforms actually store their data on the blockchain. That would be ludicrously expensive; it'd cost tens of thousands per gig at lea
by bccdee 4y ago
No cryptocurrency or Web3 platforms actually store their data on the blockchain. That would be ludicrously expensive; it'd cost tens of thousands per gig at least. Relational databases, cloud object buckets, and CDNs are pretty much all you should need, storage-wise, unless you're solving an especially interesting problem.
- andai 4y agoSo... what's the Web3 part for then?
- bccdee 4y agoBranding. I'm not even joking; everything they do with blockchain can be done cheaper, easier, and just as well without it. They do the minimum they need to to hype themselves up as being "Web3" and that's it.
- pcthrowaway 4y agoIsn't the data technically stored on-chain with proof-of-space chains?
- bccdee 4y agoArguably, perhaps, but nobody actually uses those.