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What are ZeroNet's main advantages over IPFS?

ZeroNet makes it easy to serve dynamic content with its p2p SQL support.

Not sure what you mean by "dynamic" because both systems publish static files and register a link to a root document with a name system (namecoin or ipns).

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Mark my words. This is the ethereum killer. The problem with ethereum is the novelty factor. Everything under the hood is difficult for the average developer to grasp and it's not clear whats going on as it is quite new and work is on going. Another issue is that there seems to be no clear 'voice' from Ethereum and instead you have many people claiming to be an Ethereum expert. It killed all of the hype and excitemen…

My understanding is that the primary value of Ethereum other then its decentralized nature is the capacity for smart contracts. A cursory examination of this project doesn't look like it supports that.

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Mark my words. This is the ethereum killer. The problem with ethereum is the novelty factor. Everything under the hood is difficult for the average developer to grasp and it's not clear whats going on as it is quite new and work is on going. Another issue is that there seems to be no clear 'voice' from Ethereum and instead you have many people claiming to be an Ethereum expert. It killed all of the hype and excitemen…

My understanding is that the primary value of Ethereum other then its decentralized nature is the capacity for smart contracts. A cursory examination of this project doesn't look like it supports that.

Right. ZeroNet and Ethereum don't compete with each other. Ethereum will never be a decentralized CDN the way ZeroNet or IPFS are.

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Mark my words. This is the ethereum killer. The problem with ethereum is the novelty factor. Everything under the hood is difficult for the average developer to grasp and it's not clear whats going on as it is quite new and work is on going. Another issue is that there seems to be no clear 'voice' from Ethereum and instead you have many people claiming to be an Ethereum expert. It killed all of the hype and excitemen…

I doubt this will hold true in the long term. I build stuff on top of Ethereum and there seems to be huge interest and financial support for the platform.

It is true that Zeronet works out of the box, but Ethereum seems to provide cleaner abstractions. The Web3 vision includes Zeronet functionality (decentralised applications, dapps). I think it all depends on the integration of Whisper and Swarm, which may result from a collaboration with the IPFS project and the Serenity PoS transition. The fact that there already exist node implementations in 7 different programming languages makes me optimistic.

Another interesting project is Hyperledger/OpenBlockchain which is mostly focused on consortium/private chains but provides a pluggable consensus model.

https://github.com/openblockchain/obc-docs/blob/master/white...

If the Ethereum core devs can take the project to that level of standardisation, they win. Unfortunately, its dependency on a currency and the focus on the public chain will also attract some of the worse parts of the Bitcoin community. One of the major risks is also the need for backward compatibility.

In the long term, code does not matter, standardisation does.

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