- From: Erik Anderson <eanders@pobox.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 08:53:20 -0500
- To: Web Payments CG <public-webpayments@w3.org>
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