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  • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    1 month ago

    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

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      1 month ago

      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.