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Re: Show HN: 0xFast – Faster Web3 APIs

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Post by le-mark »

FeistySkink wrote: post #5

The main page and the description is in a strange meme format, that creates a strawman Web2 Databases (cringe) and then argues that Web3 (but what is it?) is better without any concrete arguments. Is Web3 (or is it web3?) just a new way of saying web-scale, but now with blockchain? Edit: I feel like we need somebody like Coffeezilla to unwind the web3 mystery in a digestible format for the rest of the tech world.

I’m not sure either, but the name makes me think they don’t understand hexadecimal numbers.

Re: Show HN: 0xFast – Faster Web3 APIs

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Post by dmitriid »

IanCal wrote: post #8
FeistySkink wrote: post #5

The main page and the description is in a strange meme format, that creates a strawman Web2 Databases (cringe) and then argues that Web3 (but what is it?) is better without any concrete arguments. Is Web3 (or is it web3?) just a new way of saying web-scale, but now with blockchain? Edit: I feel like we need somebody like Coffeezilla to unwind the web3 mystery in a digestible format for the rest of the tech world.

It's not arguing about the difference between web2 and web3. It's arguing two main things 1. Web3 data is different from what most classic databases are optimised for, because of how it's accessed and the (mostly) immutable guarantees. 2. This service is better than other web3 api providers. FWIW I'm consulting in this space currently, specifically dealing with blockchain data itself and it makes perfect sense to me.…

> The only thing relevant here is that blockchain data is almost exclusively append-only

So, Apache Kafka.

Edit: as anyone who actually does this for a living: you never use the append-only log as your source of data. Precisely because it's very expensive to reconstruct it

> so you can build something neater because you've got guarantees that many other problems don't have.

So, first you have to find problems for your solution

Re: Show HN: 0xFast – Faster Web3 APIs

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Post by billen »

Maybe I'm misunderstanding this. However - the bottleneck in the blockchain is not the read/writing of the APIs (which might be slow), but the main bottleneck is the settlement of the chain usually. For example, the settlement of a block on the Bitcoin blockchain takes about 10 mins. No matter how fast you make the throughput of all the APIs, settlement will still be slow. If this is strictly for the historical use case, then I can understand why this might be useful.

Good luck regardless :)

Re: Show HN: 0xFast – Faster Web3 APIs

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Post by taywrobel »

"Web2 Databases were meant to deal with datasets that change frequently. They have to provide ACID guarantees to ensure correctness."

Having dumped several large blockchains into Scylla with indexing in Elastic, I can't imagine a situation where there's enough value-add to justify building a custom database to store it.

Re: Show HN: 0xFast – Faster Web3 APIs

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Post by labrador »

"web3" is a tainted term at his point. "Investing" in crypto has proven to be not a sound investment or perhaps not even an investment at all. So I think a rebranding is in order. I would suggest "the financial web" or the "internet of money" as a name with the potential to attract new people because it sounds like something with a lot of potential.

Re: Show HN: 0xFast – Faster Web3 APIs

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Post by acaloiar »

IanCal wrote: post #8
FeistySkink wrote: post #5

The main page and the description is in a strange meme format, that creates a strawman Web2 Databases (cringe) and then argues that Web3 (but what is it?) is better without any concrete arguments. Is Web3 (or is it web3?) just a new way of saying web-scale, but now with blockchain? Edit: I feel like we need somebody like Coffeezilla to unwind the web3 mystery in a digestible format for the rest of the tech world.

It's not arguing about the difference between web2 and web3. It's arguing two main things 1. Web3 data is different from what most classic databases are optimised for, because of how it's accessed and the (mostly) immutable guarantees. 2. This service is better than other web3 api providers. FWIW I'm consulting in this space currently, specifically dealing with blockchain data itself and it makes perfect sense to me.…

"Web3 data" means nothing. If you're referring to blockchain data, say blockchain data.

"Web3" doesn't lend anything to technical conversations and is best used on board rooms full of coked up investors interested in dropping money on another dumb crypto bro's vision to change the world.

Re: Show HN: 0xFast – Faster Web3 APIs

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Post by cheeze »

FeistySkink wrote: post #5

The main page and the description is in a strange meme format, that creates a strawman Web2 Databases (cringe) and then argues that Web3 (but what is it?) is better without any concrete arguments. Is Web3 (or is it web3?) just a new way of saying web-scale, but now with blockchain? Edit: I feel like we need somebody like Coffeezilla to unwind the web3 mystery in a digestible format for the rest of the tech world.

It was honestly hard for me to tell if this was real or parody. Initially, I thought this was something like /dev/null as a service, but it looks like it's actually a real product trying to solve... some problem?

Can't stand the web3 branding personally.

Re: Show HN: 0xFast – Faster Web3 APIs

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Post by IMTDb »

FeistySkink wrote: post #5

The main page and the description is in a strange meme format, that creates a strawman Web2 Databases (cringe) and then argues that Web3 (but what is it?) is better without any concrete arguments. Is Web3 (or is it web3?) just a new way of saying web-scale, but now with blockchain? Edit: I feel like we need somebody like Coffeezilla to unwind the web3 mystery in a digestible format for the rest of the tech world.

At least they clearly say they will charge you around 200x more than what you pay in the Web2 world for data transfer.
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