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Peer-to-peer serverless infrastructure, powered by blockchain technology

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Re: Peer-to-peer serverless infrastructure, powered by blockchain technology

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Some day, people will start treating their compute, everywhere as rentable commodity, and the price will go to almost zero. CPU + storage + network costs will go to zero, the "edge" will be everywhere, and organizing hosting and launching websites will never be the same. Maybe we'll even get a better federated services out of all of it (if you get people comfortable with leasing their capital, maybe they get comfortable with running services for themselves with that capital other times).

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.

Re: Peer-to-peer serverless infrastructure, powered by blockchain technology

#23
post #16

Looking 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...

Because it's blockchain and distributed!

Re: Peer-to-peer serverless infrastructure, powered by blockchain technology

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One thing I always look for in companies in the block chain space is the About section. I want to see real names and faces on these projects. The more information the better. Sometimes they just might have a front-man like a professor that wrote a white paper, but I want to see the people actually involved. This site has no about.

To 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

Re: Peer-to-peer serverless infrastructure, powered by blockchain technology

#25

I 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…

Most blockchain projects are just an excuse to list a related crypto. It doesn’t even appear that the underlying distributed computer network has anything to do with blockchain.

Re: Peer-to-peer serverless infrastructure, powered by blockchain technology

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I 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…

> ...there's not a single reference to Intel SGX (the enclave they claim to use).

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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