[Scarblac]

Well you need protection against 51% attacks, which means you need it to be very expensive to get that many modes, which means the people running nodes need to be compensated for their expense.

Which can be done neatly by having the things in the database have value, so that the reward can also be inside the system, i.e. mining coins.

Other databases people come up with always have problems with 51% attacks, so the system isn't made completely open, so it's pointless because then more traditional solutions are better.

[a1369209993]

> Which can be done neatly by having the things in the database have value, so that the reward can also be inside the system, i.e. mining coins.

Sure, but that's a mechanism, not a goal.