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by amelius 1741 days ago
Why do you need a blockchain to implement Skynet?
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The blockchain gets us a decentralized marketplace for decentralized storage providers. Anyone can join as a provider and get paid, and the blockchain can act as a decentralized escrow that holds the payment until proof is provided that the storage contract was properly fulfilled.

98% of our technology is off-chain. Only a little tiny sliver (the file contract open and close) is actually posted to the blockchain.