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RE: Building on @lanmower 's idea to build a WebTorrent media based steem front end, I wonder if a Chrome Extension could replace the Steem front end and directly plug into STEEM Blockchain like EsteemDesktop App
ackza you're a star, this is such a comprehensive explanation of how hosting costs for DApps can be vastly reduced, and should open all of our eyes to the power of extension, wasm, electron, passively sourced cdn delivery of content and other important factors like what not only steem DApps but EOS DApps can in fact work while defraying the most expensive leg of the race, hosting.
We must not look at what's available as the end of the race, but as the first step taken.
Bless up @ackza your healthy mind and being a beacon in the fog.
yes i wanted people to see that you weren't just orbiting around buzz words and that you actually had a vision for combining web torrents with steem, and when u were talking about it the first time over steemspeak.com i kept mixing it up with regulkar old bit torrent and i had totally forgotten that web torrents were the newer media streaming friendly torrent system that make sit SUPER easy to play media and just STREAM it, even in browser if you want, but many apps are desktop clients, and if THEy can stream media fast and without having to pay hosting then we should be able to do it as well, were just not thinking about the steem front ends the rright way
and then teh whole part about you saying we can use public utilities of the internet, i didnt know what you really meant until i realized that you could just have everything running in the browser and that we could find ways to host a busy.org style front end site without the hosting costs associated with busy,org by replacing busy.orgs servers with a chrome extension or desktop app that would just have to be downloaded and maybe updated from time to time.
Ya know, when people in discord tell you that you CANT do something theyre really just helping push you to prove them wrong@ when people tell us that there is no way to get around expensive hosting of a steem front end, it just pushes us to find ways to do it using tools we already have and which we just havent used in teh right way yet. Honestly we have so much spare bandwitdh and ram and storage that there is no reason we cannot incentivize hosting IPFS nodes with Steem just like joystream pays people to seed torrents... we should be able to craft a web of incentives advertized around the right people, and we can capture petaflops of spare computing and hosting power!