Gitchain: Decentralized P2P Git Repos aka "Git meets Bitcoin"

Re:Gitchain: Decentralized P2P Git Repos aka "Git meets Bitc... by Taek on Friday May 16, 2014 @11:25PM (#7759147)

"When your only tool is a hammer..."

I really feel like this is a misapplication of a blockchain. Block chains are already heavyweight, when you suddenly add arbitrary data like git repos you go from 17GB to hundreds of gigabytes and potentially much more.

Pushing also becomes a slower affair, you need to get your data into a block and then get confirmations.

I don't want to crush innovation, especially in the cryptocurrency space, but I really think this is an example of using the wrong tool for the job.

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Re:Gitchain: Decentralized P2P Git Repos aka "Git meets Bitc... by yrashk on Friday May 16, 2014 @11:27PM (#7759150)

The object data doesn't go into the blockchain, it is sparsely distributed across the nodes

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Re:Gitchain: Decentralized P2P Git Repos aka "Git meets Bitc... by Taek on Saturday May 17, 2014 @12:08AM (#7759200)

Thanks for the response. How do you plan on sparsely distributing data across nodes? I read the whitepaper but that part has not been filled out.

You'd need to make sure that repo's are safe against attack - if not every node has all the data you are moving into highly innovative territory. I'd be interested to know what sorts of solutions you are considering.

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