🌰 Servers As A Service

Blockchain, staking, and PoW enable a powerful new option for data centers and server farms: ghost servers. Just like a ghost kitchen producers food for someone else’s label, with blockchain you can hire a motley crew of computers from anywhere to run your code. It’s AWS meets ghost kitchen.

The competition is steep, though. AWS is heavily subsidized at the moment: plus centralization is cheaper than decentralization. AWS wins the “ghost server” competition for now. But. Some services can eventually be cheaper on blockchain than on a centralized service. After all, 🌰 big businesses need to compete to survive, small companies hit profitability sooner and easier. Sia just needs to be profitable enough for each individual storage provider. Dropbox needs to be profitable enough for the public market.

Related to: [[🗒️ Crypto]] [[blockchain]]

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