James, I'm always interested in what other folks are doing, and I'd like to hear more about the setup. David, I'd definitely be interested.
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 6:20 AM, David Bovill <david@viral.academy> wrote: > 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 > -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ 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
