Can we keep crypto scams off the main page of HN?
How is this a crypto scam? It's a fast index of the ethereum blockchain. It's infrastructure for engineers building against ethereum
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#32No sure what the purpose of this really is.
But the pricing seems bizzare.
Hetzner cloud costs 1€ per extra TB (20 included) while this costs 2$ per Gb.
That is an order of magnitude so what am I paying for?
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#33This seems to implement the same JSON RPC interface as Geth, so it should be a drop in replacement RPC. I wonder how you are thinking about potential customers here?
I wonder further if there is an intermediate solution in this space where chainstate was denormalized into sqlite. How much of the read-only JSON RPC could be implemented with a sqlite over http approach?
Would also be curious to read more about the technical details here. What the application architecture is, for example.
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#34it is amazing
This is your only comment after 4 months. What is amazing about it?
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 you…
I think you identified the use case:
For services that are using the "append-only log as your source of data" then you need a tool that manages the "expensive to reconstruct it" side of things. I think that is what this does: it materializes and abstracts interacting with the reconstructed view of the data.
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#38The 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.
Web3 is decentralized web, like web 1.0 - but with tokens this time! Tokens solve the issue because you can buy and hold them and get rich! Buy my shitcoin! Seriously web3 is just another way to create hype for arbitrary crypto tokens and Ethereum. In a few years there will be something else - quantum web or something to suck new buyers in.
This doesn’t provide any value to the conversation. Imagine having good intentions, working in web3, and always seeing this type of comment on HH. Would you want it that way in whatever field you’re working in?
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#39Every time I read about web3 it just reminds me what a pain all of this is and that I would prefer web0: https://web0.small-web.org/
Re: Show HN: 0xFast – Faster Web3 APIs
#40The 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.
Line Goes Up is a great video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g
See also, Web3 Is Going Great: https://web3isgoinggreat.com