Blockchains can fail too, so add a redundant layer
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Because blockchain, you know, blockchains are just data that exists in a server somewhere. And so what the idea that Alex and I've been kicking around for a couple of years now is having a second layer.
Episode 251: Pod Snuggle (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:47:47 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Podping runs on the Hive blockchain, but a blockchain is just data on servers somewhere and can fail or fork, however distributed it is. Dave and Alex's plan is to leave Hive as is and add a second redundant layer: a peer-to-peer gossip system bootstrapped over DHT, like BitTorrent's.
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Episode 114: Protoflexible (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:07:54 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
They're all going to have ultimately this problem, which is, how do you keep out the truly terrible stuff? Because Because as soon as that stuff begins to come in, and it will, they're all it just makes everything bad.
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Episode 114: Protoflexible (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:09:10 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
10 different protocols that are all that are all doing. pod bay. And you just, if one falls down, you flip over to the other end. To me, that's the only solution for true redundancy.
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Episode 114: Protoflexible (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:21:46 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
fine. I'm, I'm fine with it. But I just I'm just, I'm tired of putting all my eggs in one basket.
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