Skynet – Build a Free Internet
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Skynet – Build a Free Internet
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Re: Skynet – Build a Free Internet
#2This sort of seems like a competitor to IPFS, no?
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#3This sort of seems like a competitor to IPFS, no?
Yes. One of founders talks about the two problems with IPFS they saw that led them to build it in this comment from a past thread:
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#4How will they reduce the latency? 300-500ms seems about an order of magnitude slower than centralized CDNs.
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#5Didn't realize this was built on Sia. Interesting! I used to follow their development closely back in ~2017. I like how this product seems to be pretty straightforward to use. Hope it leads to more.
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#6If you are using Skynet for your project, I believe you need to run a node, which will require downloading the 23GB [1] blockchain from sia.
I really hope these blockchain based projects can solve the sharding problem. These blockchains are getting so big.
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#7If you are using Skynet for your project, I believe you need to run a node, which will require downloading the 23GB [1] blockchain from sia. I really hope these blockchain based projects can solve the sharding problem. These blockchains are getting so big. [1] https://siastats.info/blockchain_size
I agree! Ethereum is already to big and too expensive to use. I hold a lot but worry about both BTC and Ethereum. Normal people can no longer use either chain for everyday transactions and at this rate Ethereum will never work as a global computer. To me only Bitcoin Cash and Monero really have their use cases and code sussed out. Sia (and filecoin) work great but both have issues with their insentives, in Sia's case they issue too many coins and it's not profitable to host content.
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#8It's only a matter of time before this project gets a cease & desist from Disney.
(Disney owns 20th Century Studios, formerly 20th Century Fox, owner of the Terminator franchise.)
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#9I might be entirely wrong but I feel like I've seen multiple projects called Skynet in the past few years. I can't recall any others running currently because some of them might've become defunct and/or I've forgotten about them. I wonder what the appeal of the name is nowadays.
(I have seen Terminator and am familiar with the origins of the name)
I should clarify: It is another company's trademark or whatever as far as I know (again, could be wrong. Don't know how Disney litigates things in this domain).
Again, I could also be wrong about this not being the only thing called Skynet in the past few years.
I welcome responses!
Re: Skynet – Build a Free Internet
#10If you are using Skynet for your project, I believe you need to run a node, which will require downloading the 23GB [1] blockchain from sia. I really hope these blockchain based projects can solve the sharding problem. These blockchains are getting so big. [1] https://siastats.info/blockchain_size
I agree! Ethereum is already to big and too expensive to use. I hold a lot but worry about both BTC and Ethereum. Normal people can no longer use either chain for everyday transactions and at this rate Ethereum will never work as a global computer. To me only Bitcoin Cash and Monero really have their use cases and code sussed out. Sia (and filecoin) work great but both have issues with their insentives, in Sia's case…
ETH has already solved scalability with Zero Knowledge Proofs and Optimistic Rollups. Some dapps are clocking 2000 transactions per second. Also, ETH 2's initial beacon chain has launched and when ETH2 fully rolls out, there will be 64x that available on the network.