As long as their remain witness nodes replicating the data. There are around 100 of them I believe and they are all over the place and more all of the time. The top 19 are the active ones with the rest being backups.
Though any slowness you see isn't the actual blockchain or witnesses. Steemit is a centralized website, as are busy.org, esteem, chainbb, zappl, etc. All just different ways to LOOK at the blocks on the steem blockchain. So if website slowness is why you think it isn't scaling well that actually has nothing to do with witnesses or the blockchain. That is simply a centralized website problem.
Yes, it does require service from the witnesses which are distributed and with many backups. There has been no disruption of that service or the speed of the chain since it has been running. There have been down times for websites though. This is easy to test as when Steemit appears down you can jump to busy.org and things are clipping along at a nice speed, the same is true when busy or some other site goes down.
Images and videos are still centralized. That would require MUCH larger blocks so not yet feasible, but not too long and I bet we have that solved as well.
Whatever is come up with it'll be cool if we retroactively can scrape the chain and move images and videos from past posts to somewhere secure. I realize this may not happen, but I can still dream. :)
Not a terrible idea, but not the direction we are heading. However, I don't understand the "more secure" bit. Someone said something similar to me yesterday. Um, guys, anyone can save any image or any video ever displayed anywhere on the internet. If you want them "secure", the internet has nothing possible for you. Don't put them ON it. That's your only way out.
Yeah, I am not talking about security myself. Anytime someone puts up barriers on the internet it takes way less time for someone to find a way around it. When I am referring to SECURE here I am referring to keeping it secure from deletion simply due to a host going down, a person passing away, etc. So secure it from being centralized. I am not referring to copying, or other types of security.
As long as their remain witness nodes replicating the data. There are around 100 of them I believe and they are all over the place and more all of the time. The top 19 are the active ones with the rest being backups.
Though any slowness you see isn't the actual blockchain or witnesses. Steemit is a centralized website, as are busy.org, esteem, chainbb, zappl, etc. All just different ways to LOOK at the blocks on the steem blockchain. So if website slowness is why you think it isn't scaling well that actually has nothing to do with witnesses or the blockchain. That is simply a centralized website problem.
Yes, it does require service from the witnesses which are distributed and with many backups. There has been no disruption of that service or the speed of the chain since it has been running. There have been down times for websites though. This is easy to test as when Steemit appears down you can jump to busy.org and things are clipping along at a nice speed, the same is true when busy or some other site goes down.
That can easily be done if need be. I don't believe witnesses will be a scaling problem. :)
Images and videos are still centralized. That would require MUCH larger blocks so not yet feasible, but not too long and I bet we have that solved as well.
Already working on the media problem... Stay tuned...
@sircork you build intrigue like my high school crush. Damn you...let's just make out ;)
Still think you might be my son, after that drunken incident I had in college with the peacock.
Whatever is come up with it'll be cool if we retroactively can scrape the chain and move images and videos from past posts to somewhere secure. I realize this may not happen, but I can still dream. :)
Not a terrible idea, but not the direction we are heading. However, I don't understand the "more secure" bit. Someone said something similar to me yesterday. Um, guys, anyone can save any image or any video ever displayed anywhere on the internet. If you want them "secure", the internet has nothing possible for you. Don't put them ON it. That's your only way out.
Yeah, I am not talking about security myself. Anytime someone puts up barriers on the internet it takes way less time for someone to find a way around it. When I am referring to SECURE here I am referring to keeping it secure from deletion simply due to a host going down, a person passing away, etc. So secure it from being centralized. I am not referring to copying, or other types of security.
Ah, then it's exactly the direction we are heading. Stay tuned.