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RE: Update: Communities/Hivemind
- It’s designed to be a developer-friendly layer on top of the Steem blockchain that will enable any developer to access a database containing all the social information stored on the Steem blockchain without having to rely on minimalistic core blockchain APIs.
How does this affect the 'Decentralized' aspect of STEEM? If the information is in a database is it not then 'Centralized'? This is probably a dumb question, but I am not a Code Geek.
Anyone who wants to can run their own local instance of Hivemind and have their own copy of the data.
How will this work with things not stored on the blockchain such as bookmarks?
It will likely save them on the blockchain as some type of custom JSON
Hive only reads from the blockchain, and simply provides a convenient way to query the same underlying data.