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0 pointsacdha4y ago0 comments

How do those innovate beyond the decades of prior art in both cases? Proof of work means Whisper will be expensive so it must have a compelling advantage which helps the applications be correspondingly more capable to compensate for that. Similarly, storage using smart contracts does not seem like a game changer compared to similar projects' weak market demand.

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phyalow4y ago

Im not going to bother filling in the blanks for you.

Tangently if you want to start a journey to understanding why the movement away from centralised infrastructure is important (and arguably unavoidable) from a fundamental perspective, go and read one of the primary sources for crypto libertarinism - https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transi... this book was published in 1997 it describes cryptocurrencies and their terminal implications on prevailing powerstructures and so much more. The Author was a member of the House of Lords in the UK and his son is now the current Leader of the House of Commons.

acdhaOP4y ago

> Im not going to bother filling in the blanks for you.

This seems suspiciously like you are unable to. Note how unusual that is for true innovation — HN is full of posts where people can say they switched to something because it was faster, better, cheaper, etc. If all you have is a book from the previous century which predates those systems existing, that does not speak well for their merits.

phyalow4y ago

Did you even read the summary on Whisper where it compares its use case vs. traditional multicast protocols like UDP? I guess not.

I'm not going to waste my energy further, you are dismissive and closed minded. The prior art you allude to is all from the previous century too, your point?

Frankly I couldnt care less if you dont end up getting "Web3", although it would be a shame for you if you didn't bother to make a concerted effort on your own behalf beyond trite comments.

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phyalow4y ago

Im not going to bother filling in the blanks for you.

acdhaOP4y ago

> Im not going to bother filling in the blanks for you.

phyalow4y ago

Did you even read the summary on Whisper where it compares its use case vs. traditional multicast protocols like UDP? I guess not.

I'm not going to waste my energy further, you are dismissive and closed minded. The prior art you allude to is all from the previous century too, your point?

Frankly I couldnt care less if you dont end up getting "Web3", although it would be a shame for you if you didn't bother to make a concerted effort on your own behalf beyond trite comments.

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