An issue with the torrent scheme is efficiency. Networks of home computers will suck down considerably more power from (potentially) less than ideal energy sources than dedicated servers in well-planned locations (i.e. near reliable renewable energy sources, with backup generators). I don’t see a way to have this without involving large institutions, whether private or public.
Regarding media creation, there’s a middle ground between direct payment and government-sponsored: Universal Basic Income, or a related scheme of generic grants for art/education producers. Ensuring people don’t starve or become homeless as they start projects or grow large enough to be sustained by direct payments from an audience could foster this sort of growth.
Yeah, when you talk about ideal, home computers will not win. When you talk about an industry that overprovisions servers by ~50% and doesn’t even turn these overprovisioned servers off when they don’t need them, an industry that lobbies against any push to force them to put solar on their roofs, that lobbies against mandatory haste heat reuse and all that, I believe that a network of home computers will not be much more wasteful. Especially considering that the PCs are ildeing already anyway.
The problem with government-sponsored is, that we have to pay for it anyway. Unless you live in the Emirates, governments usually don’t have a money surplus and they need to make money through taxes. So wheter you pay through taxes or through direct contributions, there isn’t too much of a difference there.
What about using tecnologies such as Bitcoin and blockchain to find a sustainable mechanism of income for creators / server owners?
Miners already have an economical incentive to build a network and keep expanding it: they literally get paid for producing and maintaining computer power, and why is it working? Because Bitcoin was the first and only available example that made what gold did, but better in a time that was really needed…
We just need to include the web into the equation, building a web and a mechanism of incentives (i would say based on bitcoin) that works better than the current web! Easier said than done that’s sure!
We need to think about what every social media platform would want to use because works better than ads and all the other incentives/income methods.
If Satoshi did it, i don’t see why can’t we do it too…
An issue with the torrent scheme is efficiency. Networks of home computers will suck down considerably more power from (potentially) less than ideal energy sources than dedicated servers in well-planned locations (i.e. near reliable renewable energy sources, with backup generators). I don’t see a way to have this without involving large institutions, whether private or public.
Regarding media creation, there’s a middle ground between direct payment and government-sponsored: Universal Basic Income, or a related scheme of generic grants for art/education producers. Ensuring people don’t starve or become homeless as they start projects or grow large enough to be sustained by direct payments from an audience could foster this sort of growth.
Yeah, when you talk about ideal, home computers will not win. When you talk about an industry that overprovisions servers by ~50% and doesn’t even turn these overprovisioned servers off when they don’t need them, an industry that lobbies against any push to force them to put solar on their roofs, that lobbies against mandatory haste heat reuse and all that, I believe that a network of home computers will not be much more wasteful. Especially considering that the PCs are ildeing already anyway.
The problem with government-sponsored is, that we have to pay for it anyway. Unless you live in the Emirates, governments usually don’t have a money surplus and they need to make money through taxes. So wheter you pay through taxes or through direct contributions, there isn’t too much of a difference there.
What about using tecnologies such as Bitcoin and blockchain to find a sustainable mechanism of income for creators / server owners?
Miners already have an economical incentive to build a network and keep expanding it: they literally get paid for producing and maintaining computer power, and why is it working? Because Bitcoin was the first and only available example that made what gold did, but better in a time that was really needed…
We just need to include the web into the equation, building a web and a mechanism of incentives (i would say based on bitcoin) that works better than the current web! Easier said than done that’s sure!
We need to think about what every social media platform would want to use because works better than ads and all the other incentives/income methods.
If Satoshi did it, i don’t see why can’t we do it too…