Decentralized Reddit using a DHT to store content and a blockchain to rank it

Re:Decentralized Reddit using a DHT to store content and a b... by debacle on Thursday October 15, 2015 @09:51AM (#10393100)

I didn't say block chains are worth nothing. Just because something solves one problem does not mean it solves all problems.

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Re:Decentralized Reddit using a DHT to store content and a b... by CyberDildonics on Thursday October 15, 2015 @09:57AM (#10393136)

But when something is a decentralized immutable ledger and global consensus, it tends to solve problems of decentralized immutable ledgers and global consensus.

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Re:Decentralized Reddit using a DHT to store content and a b... by jtuente on Thursday October 15, 2015 @10:20AM (#10393265)

>decentralized immutable ledger and global consensus

These aren't problems, they're potential solutions to problems. Bitcoin and Blockchains are solutions to specific problems in currency and trust.

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Re:Decentralized Reddit using a DHT to store content and a b... by CyberDildonics on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:43AM (#10393797)

They are the structure of of decentralized systems. A comment system can be seen as (and is possibly already implemented as) an immutable ledger of transactions - adding comments, voting, edits etc.

So decentralizing those things that can be represented at their core as a ledger of transactions is very much a problem which blockchains solve.

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