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Using its own blockchain as a ledger and a DHT network as a storage layer
by yrashk 12y ago
Using its own blockchain as a ledger and a DHT network as a storage layer
- cjbprime 12y agoAre the git objects themselves stored in the DHT, or is it just (like a trackerless torrent) the connection information needed to find peers willing to send you those objects?
- yrashk 12y agoThe object themselves are stored across the peers, not the connection information.
- sillysaurus3 12y agoWhat prevents someone from using this to store backups of their harddrives, photos, etc, and consuming as much space as possible?
- wmf 12y agoIt needs an incentive model, like for every GB of space you provide you get a GB of space from peers.
- yrashk 12y agoThere are proof of storage techniques. I already listed some references in the paper I am working on (https://github.com/gitchain/gitchain/blob/master/gitchain.tex#L156-L164 https://github.com/gitchain/gitchain/blob/master/gitchain.te...)
- cjbprime 12y agoPlease could you explain why? Trackerless bittorrent is just as decentralized, and seems more scalable.
- zimbatm 12y agoDoes trackerless bittorrent provide a way to update a file ? The git objects themselves are content-addressable (the key is the hash of the value) but you still need a unique ID that references the HEAD of this chain of objects. This id needs to be updateable.