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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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Post by Jenk »

From my rudimentary understanding (i.e., what I've just read on the homepage) I don't know how "blockchain" fits into this, but I could make a guess that api signatures are "blockchain verified"?

From that same rudimentary understanding, I would also expect performance to be comparable to Tor.

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

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Post by ThePhysicist »

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 currently no way to run general-purpose code that e.g. uses syscalls (there are some projects that try to fix this though).

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

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Post by anentropic »

Jenk wrote: post #2

From my rudimentary understanding (i.e., what I've just read on the homepage) I don't know how "blockchain" fits into this, but I could make a guess that api signatures are "blockchain verified"? From that same rudimentary understanding, I would also expect performance to be comparable to Tor.

> Anyone with a laptop, mobile or any connected device can earn $EDGE tokens by providing spare computational and storage capacity to the network. $EDGE tokens can be traded for Edge services, or converted into dollars, pounds or euros.

Seems like the product is mostly an excuse to push yet another cryptocoin scheme

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

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Post by Jenk »

anentropic wrote: post #5
Jenk wrote: post #2

From my rudimentary understanding (i.e., what I've just read on the homepage) I don't know how "blockchain" fits into this, but I could make a guess that api signatures are "blockchain verified"? From that same rudimentary understanding, I would also expect performance to be comparable to Tor.

> Anyone with a laptop, mobile or any connected device can earn $EDGE tokens by providing spare computational and storage capacity to the network. $EDGE tokens can be traded for Edge services, or converted into dollars, pounds or euros. Seems like the product is mostly an excuse to push yet another cryptocoin scheme

Ugh.
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