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Re:Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives? by chc4 on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:28PM (#25696993)
Urbit using Ethereum as a global consistent PKI store seemed like a perfectly fine idea, until transaction costs for distributing those keys bloomed 11,000% in a year :(
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Re:Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives? by buddha420 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:53PM (#25702580)
It's being worked on. If the plan to use ZK-STARKs to rollup PKI transactions goes through, it should be only a few cents to set up a planet. In the meantime though, it is a major barrier :(
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