IPFS Backed by Decentralized Storage

Re:IPFS Backed by Decentralized Storage by thebean11 on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @12:49PM (#30530278)

It is already the norm with the current domain registration system, so I'm not sure what your point is. I recently tried to purchase a domain with some version of my name. There is nothing hosted there (domain name lookup fails). I offered them a few grand for it which I thought was reasonable, no response.

Would be interested in your solution to this problem if you have one (seriously, I don't know how to solve it).

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Re:IPFS Backed by Decentralized Storage by dmitriid on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @04:17PM (#30533291)

I don't know what the solution is. But a "pay-to-win" scheme on an irreversible ledger isn't it.

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Re:IPFS Backed by Decentralized Storage by thebean11 on Thursday March 03, 2022 @12:23AM (#30537469)

Both current and blockchain solutions are pay to win in the exact same ways. The blockchain solution solves other problems.

If we agree that there's no known solution for the "pay to win" part, I'm not sure what your criticism of this even is?

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Re:IPFS Backed by Decentralized Storage by dmitriid on Thursday March 03, 2022 @09:43AM (#30541637)

> Both current and blockchain solutions are pay to win in the exact same ways

They don't.

> The blockchain solution solves other problems.

It doesn't. As in there are no problems blockchain solves, period, and it makes most existing problems worse.

> I'm not sure what your criticism of this even is

You want to normalise and incentivise the behaviour. And pretending that by simply appending "blockchain" to it it is okay.

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