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Re: [GSoC 23] distributed substitutes, cost of storage
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Simon Tournier |
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Re: [GSoC 23] distributed substitutes, cost of storage |
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Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:13:08 +0200 |
Hi,
On Tue, 04 Apr 2023 at 10:53, Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name> wrote:
> 2) swarm-like, where the nodes are responsible for storing whatever
> content "is" in their "neighborhood". (block hashes and node ids
> are in the same domain, so there's a distance metric between a
> block and a node). put another way: Swarm stores not only the
> metadata in the DHT, but also the data itself.
If like me, some reader does not know what Swarm means, I guess it
refers to “hard disk of the world computer” that the Ethereum Foundation
envisions. From my rough understanding, it is the way the Ethereum
cryptocurrency [1] stores its blockchain.
The only reference I am able to find – and I have not read it at all –
is this book of 287 pages [2]:
the book of Swarm
(storage and communication infrastructure for self-sovereign digital
society back-end stack for the decentralised web)
Well, fully ignorant on this topic, I am missing how its design
specifically targeting one blockchain dedicated to cryptocurrency could
be adapted to share Guix susbtitutes. However, somehow, I am not
convinced that Guix should introduce some mechanisms to tackle some free
rider problems [3].
Could you be provide some details for helping my curiosity?
1: https://ethereum.org/en/what-is-ethereum/
2: https://www.ethswarm.org/The-Book-of-Swarm.pdf
3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem
Cheers,
simon