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I've been watching MaidSafe/Autonomi for a while now and I'm excited to see how it goes for them. It's not a blockchain, it's not BitTorrent, but (if I've under
by __MatrixMan__ 2y ago
I've been watching MaidSafe/Autonomi for a while now and I'm excited to see how it goes for them. It's not a blockchain, it's not BitTorrent, but (if I've understood it) the Kademlia DHT is a bit of a fusion between the two.
It'll have its own unique social consequences and when I'm feeling optimistic I dare to hope that it'll be a step on the path to something better than what were doing today.
It's not what I see when I close my eyes and dream of the distributed infra we need. That dream is a partition tolerant one. But it's different enough that it might just solve some of the deeply entrenched problems that plague us.
- fabrice_d 2y agoAutonomi pretends that the network will store your data forever in exchange of just an initial payment. This is a bold claim, and I'm not sure how this can work in practice - the docs didn't give much details.
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoIt does feel a bit unsustainable, but I'm not willing to write it off... blockchains manage a much more extreme version of the same proposition (every node stores your data forever). It'll just come down to whether the price stabilizes to a point that's low enough to be useful.
- fabrice_d 2y agoBut you don't store your whole photo library on a blockchain, right? The storage needs look vastly different here.