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by kevinSuttle 3188 days ago
Why dat or quilt and not blockchain?
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tbv 3188 days ago
A blockchain is an over-engineered solution to the problems we’re trying to solve. Blockchains provide shared global state. We don’t need that.

https://beakerbrowser.com/docs/inside-beaker/other-technolog...

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jhoechtl 3188 days ago
A blockchain is a rather weak database in itself. However to store pointers into a dht like Dat would be fine
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kevinSuttle 3187 days ago
A rather weak database? How do you figure?
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pfraze 3187 days ago
This may not always be the case, but, so far, blockchains have low throughput and fat datasets that you have to sync. Compared to other databases, they don't perform that well, so if you don't need decentralized strict consensus, a blockchain isn't a good choice.
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