@vandys @lupyuen proper use of a blockchain requires so much network effect, 99% of "blockchains" out there are not secure at all and might as well be centralized, unless they use #bitcoin or ethereum, replacing anything with a blockchain is pointless (and really anything other than bitcoin...)

@notresz @lupyuen Interesting! If you ever come across a paper fleshing out this subject, please include me if you post about it.

@vandys @lupyuen for sure, I think it is interesting also.

@vandys @lupyuen aren't they replacing polling with something consuming a lot more resources?

@hd @lupyuen I actually tapped into it for a few hours, just to get a feel. I'd guess it averaged out to a few episodes/second, negligible on CPU and bandwidth. I'd also guess it was a couple orders of magnitude more efficient than pulling all RSS feeds and parsing far enough in to spot the new material.

Maybe it has fatal flaws. But they didn't jump out in my initial hands on testing.