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A comment on Ask HN: Is a P2P browser possible?.

Re:Ask HN: Is a P2P browser possible? by finchisko on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @08:02AM (#15905282)
You can use beakerbrowser. Personally I miss P2P application server. Meaning you could deploy your app to the P2P "cloud" and not care how it will be hosted/load balanced... Something similar to ethereum smart contracts, but with possibility to run code without any restrictions. Add P2P database and I will call it real revolution.

So far nothing like that exists, but potential is huge. Effectively disrupt any cloud service as we know today and make a lot of money without building big and costly hw infrastructure.

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Re:Ask HN: Is a P2P browser possible? by toyg on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @08:38AM (#15905460)
It's already difficult for a lot of companies to trust a single infrastructure provider (be it AWS, Google or anyone else). Handing your critical infrastructure to a bunch of distributed unknowns? Not gonna happen.
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Re:Ask HN: Is a P2P browser possible? by finchisko on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @09:03AM (#15905604)
It's all about money. If you could safe millions in cloud service fees, then companies will hear on that.

Call me Cassandra, but I think it will eventually happen. Come back to this in 10years. :D

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Re:Ask HN: Is a P2P browser possible? by deevolution on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @08:52AM (#15905547)
Encrypt all the data and put it on distributed database like blockchain, reward / incentivizes people to provide disk space. Filecoin does this.
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Re:Ask HN: Is a P2P browser possible? by finchisko on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @09:02AM (#15905600)
yeah but it's just disk space. i ment running applications
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Re:Ask HN: Is a P2P browser possible? by netsharc on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @09:50AM (#15905896)
Isn't that the idea of Ethereum? Smart contracts can run logic written in whatever language they invented for that.
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Re:Ask HN: Is a P2P browser possible? by finchisko on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:08AM (#15906037)
no, smart contracts ambition is not run any arbitrary code. It's language is limited and not general purpose. Think more of DSL to support ethereum transactions than java,c...
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