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Re:Building for the Blockchain by xchaotic on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @02:25PM (#16108969)
It's nice in an utopian kind of way, but it's actually less efficient - i.e. more costly overall. So you're talking Facebook paying for their hosting by showing ads vs you trying to charge customers real money or slow down their computers. I have a guess which one is going to prevail.
Re:Building for the Blockchain by EGreg on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @03:58PM (#16109989)
Hmm how do you figure?

Having people host with several nodes running a consensus algorithm is worse than trusting all your data to one actor in "the cloud"?