I stumbled upon this post about the bitcoin application stack.
And what got me intrigued was that the stack described is very similar to the way network database works.
A world where the database is not owned by anyone creates applications that must co-ordinate using open distributed protocols where bad-actors are expected. In the network world these kinds of protocols take years to evolve and develop and that constrains the speed with which new services can be deployed …
What could be very interesting is if the bitcoin transaction technology can be evolved to be consumed by non-experts in cryptography to be able to share and store data and the applications that are built on top of that technology don’t require up-front protocol collaboration …
I worry that I am in fuzzy brave new world thinking here… Maybe the speculation is too great. There is something here, though. Something meaningful.
It is encouraging that people are thinking about this.
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