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Re:Fix Reddit with Bitcoin by yafujifide on Monday July 06, 2015 @01:52AM (#9837040)
> How/where would content be stored?

Modern web browsers have a real database called IndexedDB. The users store the content. Most users, of course, would not store most content. Users that wanted to could run the app full-time on their local machine, where the database would be leveldb instead of IndexedDB. They would store much more data. Not all data would necessarily be saved forever.

> Also, how much would you expect each message to cost?

Payment channels reduce the cost of transactions to next to zero. An "upvote" does not actually go on the blockchain - only when channels are opened or closed to transactions go on the blockchain, incurring a transaction fee.

Re:Fix Reddit with Bitcoin by dida1337 on Monday July 06, 2015 @03:36AM (#9837429)
Could ipfs.io be used for content storing? Together with filecoin could it be better fit then your proposed solution?