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Waterken was the same kind of logic, applied at web API scale. https://shiftleft.com/mirrors/www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2010/HPL-2010-89.pdf https://shiftleft.
by Hexayurt 10mo ago
Waterken was the same kind of logic, applied at web API scale.
https://shiftleft.com/mirrors/www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2010/HPL-2010-89.pdf https://shiftleft.com/mirrors/www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/201...
The failure of this system and the HP ESpeak system are what left the gap which the blockchain smart contract model filled.
I have complex thoughts about that.
- Hexayurt 10mo agoSpecifically: a globally visible distributed database is a fantastic resource for managing namespaces, as demonstrated by DNS and SSL Certificate Authorities. But when we start essentially doing _transactions_ by writing into such a database, it starts to look like buying a domain name every time you want to make a credit card payment. There is an architectural problem here.