On 17/11/14 21:38, Michael Grube wrote: > I hate to put it this way, but let's be coldly rational here. Please do not > take this as an offensive question: What can we offer that maidsafe cannot? > Since it will be based on 'safecoins' I'm assuming it will cost money to > use which is one advantage we have. Anything beside that though? Precisely for that reason it can cash in on venture capital and the whole Bitcoin hype engine?
Beyond that, I don't know, don't have time to dig. Arne's site does mention it though. > Blockchains are a crappy thing to put an entire set of technologies on top > of, especially since Ghash.io was capable of executing the 51% attack > earlier this year. > > Should we focus on small world vs blockchain? Is this even an issue? > Curious to know what everyone thinks. Block chains have some advantages for spam-resistant naming and other stuff Freenet sucks at. I.e. Freenet needs scarcity for announcement, safe KSKs, forums, search. Bitcoin/namecoin is one way to do that. However you also need a distributed storage mechanism, which doesn't have much to do with block chains.
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