This isn't it for me (blockchain is an anchor around the neck of the idea IMO), but I look forward to the day that this idea finds it's perfect (or perfectly timed) execution.
Peer-to-peer serverless infrastructure, powered by blockchain technology
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#22You lost me at "blockchain".
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#23Looking at the pricing page, this seems to be almost as expensive as AWS/GCP, while having unknown performance characteristics of random people's devices and network connections. Not sure why I would pay for this instead...
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#24To confuse things further, there is another company called edge.app which is an app to buy and sell crypto. I don't think they're affiliated
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#25I was curious about their claims regarding confidential computing so I checked out their Github organization ( https://github.com/edge ), but it seems there's very little activity there and there's not a single reference to Intel SGX (the enclave they claim to use). So I'm a bit skeptical about their claims. SGX is also not a general-purpose technology and can only run highly specialized code, to my knowledge there's…
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#27"How It Works" link doesn't work
Re: Peer-to-peer serverless infrastructure, powered by blockchain technology
#28I was curious about their claims regarding confidential computing so I checked out their Github organization ( https://github.com/edge ), but it seems there's very little activity there and there's not a single reference to Intel SGX (the enclave they claim to use). So I'm a bit skeptical about their claims. SGX is also not a general-purpose technology and can only run highly specialized code, to my knowledge there's…
Unrelated, but amusingly, if they want to, they could use https://secret.network/ to host their workload in peer-to-peer serverless SGX enclaves, powered by the blockchain.
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#29Looking at the pricing page, this seems to be almost as expensive as AWS/GCP, while having unknown performance characteristics of random people's devices and network connections. Not sure why I would pay for this instead...