Decentralizing SaidIt

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[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I don't think you understand blockchain technology is not necessarily a cryptocurrency.

Blockchain has it's pros and cons. You need the entire chain. Bitcoin has a blockchain with every transaction ever made and its around 100gb. That's not convenient on a phone.

The SaidIt database must be growing too.

Holochain (a TERRIBLE name is not a blockchain or crypto but more like a matrix, mesh, web, net, etc) doesn't have that blockchain problem. Not everyone needs a complete database. I'm quite sure there must be more pros and cons to it too.

[–]raven9 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You should look at blockchain sharding, a possible means of sharing the entire ledger between peers so no one needs to download the entire thing but you could have super peers, that do hold copies of the entire thing.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Link?

Like Holochain, apparently.

Not to be confused with sharting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbDcnUH6rOc

[–]raven9 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The blockchain tech crowd have been talking about sharding for a while here is a recent article about it.

www.computerworld.com/article/3336187/blockchain/sharding-what-it-is-and-why-so-many-blockchain-protocols-rely-on

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks. Feel free to repost in /s/DecentralizeAllThings or I will later.