Yes - I've been interested in Livecode and blockchain for a couple of years now. I've been following Ethereum since the beginning - we tried to make a documentary about the project and I went to DevCon 1 in Berlin as the team started it's development.
There is an interesting online Hackathon in November if any Livecoders are interested in taking part / forming a team? On 18 August 2016 at 01:27, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > Jerry Daniels wrote: > > > On Aug 17, 2016, 5:12 PM -0500, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> > >> What is the business benefit for this application to go P2P rather > >> than client-server? > > > > Richard, cost savings, security, privacy. Costs are drastically > > reduced without hosting and its (hidden) labor/maintenance. Just > > think about the long record of exploitation of hosted SQL data. > > Not in the models were discussing here. > > I like the idea* of P2P for some applications, but with the explosion of > cloud services the client-server model seems to have merit as well. > > On the one hand, there are the risks of managing (hopefully redundant) > server farms. On the other hand there are the risks of having every client > also be a server, but without a team of professionals hardening and > monitoring it. > > All systems are hackable. Ideally prevention, monitoring, and recovery > are budgeted for in the business plan with any architecture. > > I believe there's a role for both client-server and P2P, and federated > models as well. Each has its own benefits and tradeoffs; like programming > languages, there'll always be more because use cases where they can add > value only grow and diversify. > > Back to blockchains, from my reading it's becoming clear that the > distributed trust is a compelling feature, along with the increased speed > with which transaction ledgers can be conveyed faithfully. Like the early > days of railroads, networks outside of Bitcoin employ different standards, > each with its own kinks to work out but worth the effort. Over time it > seems likely they'll impact global quality of life as significantly as the > invention of compound interest. > > Lots to learn.... > > > > Richard, Mike...sorry for my butting in here. Feel free to ignore my > > interruption. > > Au contraire, mon ami. Always good to have you around. > > > > * I've been paranoid for years, and enjoying Mr. Robot has only made that > worse. :) For the last several years I've run my main laptop and > workstation with no open ports (easy to do with Ubuntu since it ships that > way; took some work to harden my Mac). This has meant that as eagerly as I > used to visit openp2p.com and read the other things, these days P2P is an > interesting set of ideas but not something I focus on; all collaboration > systems here use only outbound connections. > > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
