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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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