Re:The Vision for Decentralized Web
by idlewords on Sunday July 14, 2019 @05:41PM
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You need money to build and run the apps. Source: I do this for a living.
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The operational costs are considerably lower with Blockstack, since the app doesn't host any user state (and in many cases, no state at all). Most apps don't need a database of any kind -- all the business logic runs client-side in the user's web browser.
Event if operational costs going to be 0, it's not a viable business model to not have profit.
I never claimed otherwise ;)
However, I will claim that the lower operational expenditure (and lower liability for holding user data) makes profitability on-the-whole easier to achieve in Blockstack-powered apps.