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by chipotle_coyote
1719 days ago
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Currently, I think the answer is "badly." :) When this article states "If Urbit were reimagined in 2021, it would be running on Sia or Ethereum" I immediately thought, "Wait, you can use Ethereum for decentralized storage?" I'm not following the blockchain space closely, I confess, but I hadn't heard that. And, Ethereum's web site has a page called "Decentralized Storage" that talks about how it can be used as one! Except that said page goes on to say, "When it comes to large amounts of data, that isn't what Ethereum was designed for." Well. Basically, any blockchain system that requires every copy of the blockchain to be complete is not going to be really great for shoving hundreds of gigabytes -- let alone terabytes -- of data into. Sia -- which I hadn't of before -- seems like it's explicitly positioning itself as a blockchain-based decentralized storage provider, and is closer to what the article suggests Urbit would be like if it were reimagined now. I don't think Sia's web site does a particularly good job of explaining (or selling) it, but, well, neither does Urbit's. |
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