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[–] kautau 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean you don’t need the blockchain for that. The same way that distro mirrors don’t need the blockchain. It can be federated, with each upload being verified through hashes that they are in fact the real upload. I would argue that something like blockchain would remove the authority from them, granting the position of a bad actor spinning up enough servers to be able to poison the blockchain just because they had the computing power, claiming authority

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Bro hear me out bro

We put the whole thing on a blockchain. BUT

  • entry order isn't super important

  • you don't need to validate the entire archive

So basically a blockchain, but for a bunch of files, not ordered. So instead of a native token, users can just trade bits of information as currency. 🙀

If it goes really well, we could even recruit one of the Bitcoin developers to help.

[–] kautau 8 points 1 month ago

lol I fucking hate this because idiots will read this and be like “oh shit is this the new blockchain”

Well done

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Take my money! All of it!