Re: A Decentralized Hashtable for the Web

Its called Redis in active-active mode. Plenty of forks of redis out 
there that can accomplish this. I have no proof but I suspect Blockchain 
was originally a fork of Redis.

Additionally you cant have a decentralized Hashtable until you have a 
"non-forking" trust mechanism.

I am still not convinced you can decentralize trust. Even 51% attack of 
a proof-of-work majority is centralizing trust.

1 bad bug in a new deployment of a decentralized hashtable could destroy 
the entire decentralized hashtable network. But thats what snapshots and 
restore points are, right? Well you still need 51% of the network to 
agree to rollback to a restore point.

Now spam the network with new hash entries and watch the hashtable bloat 
in size and become un-maintainable.

Technology is just not there and network/memory/disk resources are still 
expensive so few are willing to maintain this.

We are still 10 years from seeing something like this from being even 
remotely mature enough to reach adoption.

Erik Anderson
Bloomberg

Received on Tuesday, 3 November 2015 13:56:18 UTC