Re:Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021)
by sascha_sl on Monday May 23, 2022 @07:37AM
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It's not like they don't exist, they just have a lot of problems scaling to capacities that are in any way meaningful.
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Might you or someone else say what or where the bottlenecks are that prevent these from scaling?
The biggest challenge in general is that the approach of storing every transaction forever leads to petabytes of storage. And you can't expect a decentralized system to require petabytes of storage.
I apologize if this a naive question but Proof of work is also decentralized no? Why does Proof of Stake incur these scaling limitations but Proof of work does not?
Re:Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021)
by coffeeblack on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @02:44AM
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Both do.
Re:Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021)
by bogomipz on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:48AM
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Can you elaborate? The person I was replying to indicated that the problem was one of storage however the only scalability problems I have seen written about have been around transaction processing.[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_scalability_problem