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Re:Ask HN: What are the next internet infra problems? by thorgutierrez on Sunday April 10, 2022 @04:47PM (#30981547)
One of my big realization of 2021 is that this is exactly what blockchains can provide. You can have permanent hosting of your website on Arweave[1] and interactions with the website could save your state on Ethereum or similar. You pay once to host the website, and then it's free to browse and users pay whenever they want to change the state (e.g. post something on your website). Ethereum is like this big world computer that anyone can publish to and users pay to interact with it. You don't have to worry about hosting or uptime and it will be up there forever.

[1]: https://www.arweave.org

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Re:Ask HN: What are the next internet infra problems? by matkoniecz on Sunday April 10, 2022 @06:41PM (#30982451)
How large is ETH overhead? I expect it to be atrociously massive.
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Re:Ask HN: What are the next internet infra problems? by thorgutierrez on Sunday April 10, 2022 @07:33PM (#30982852)
It's massive right now, yes. Especially because of proof of work. It will get better, but I don't think we can expect it to be as good as everybody hosting their own services in the cloud. That is a big disadvantage of Ethereum, but I still think it is pretty interesting that it essentially handles devops for you forever.
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