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Re:Dat: non-profit, secure, and distributed package manager ... by kevinSuttle on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:24PM (#15344681)
Why dat or quilt and not blockchain?
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Re:Dat: non-profit, secure, and distributed package manager ... by tbv on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @12:23AM (#15344904)
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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Re:Dat: non-profit, secure, and distributed package manager ... by jhoechtl on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @12:55AM (#15345029)
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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Re:Dat: non-profit, secure, and distributed package manager ... by kevinSuttle on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @10:52AM (#15348355)
A rather weak database? How do you figure?
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Re:Dat: non-profit, secure, and distributed package manager ... by pfraze on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @12:13PM (#15349244)
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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