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They never had a convincing solution for scale in my view.
by fire_lake 2y ago
They never had a convincing solution for scale in my view.
- nullc 2y agoIn what sense? In terms of additional peerings wasting bandwidth proportional to the number of messages? That can be addressed with techniques like erlay ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10518 https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10518 ) though the erlay paper's settings are tuned for lower latency than something like Bitmessage would want. In terms of the fact that it is just a global broadcast? Not everything needs to "scale" to handling all messaging for the world. Bitmessage style broadcast can support occasional small messaging for tens to hundreds of thousands of users (maybe even millions) without using outrageous amounts of bandwidth. Not everything needs to be or should be the next twitter replacement.
- Rhapso 2y agoThe point kinda was to optimize for security over scalability. It wasn't the goal. Go make a messaging system on TOR if you want a less secure more scalable tradeoff point.
- oldgregg 2y agoless secure indeed