Re: A Decentralized Hashtable for the Web

Re: a new name... how about Hashbrown ?

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 5:57 AM Erik Anderson <eanders@pobox.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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