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Re:Web3 architecture and how it compares to traditional web ... by giantrobot on Sunday October 10, 2021 @04:00AM (#28816652)
> The radical change here is that now anyone with some pocket change in crypto can deploy a decentralized application.

Oh man it'll be awesome. Decentralized applications running on someone else's hardware with no SLA or even a meaningful relationship between the application author and person(a) executing it. Terabytes of data will just sort of float on the blockchain...sorry, immutable data store. I'm sure it'll be super fast when uploading from people's residential Internet connections.

So exciting!

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Re:Web3 architecture and how it compares to traditional web ... by meheleventyone on Sunday October 10, 2021 @04:35AM (#28816792)
And lets not forget the high cost of executing these apps not least to the environment.
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