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Random thought. Why can't something like Wikipedia be run distributed through a blockchain? Edits are just transactions that are broadcast over the network. I imagine the total cost of that to individual contributors of nodes would be less than the millions they're paying right now.

EDIT: Turns out someone is already working on it: https://lunyr.com/




Saw this the other day. Someone working on making Wikipedia on MaidSafe

https://safenetforum.org/t/safe-drive-wikipedia-on-safe-tech...

https://github.com/loureirorg/wikirofs

Not sure how far along it is, but it looks interesting.


Most of Wikipedia's money goes to pay for things besides hosting. Centralized hosting also happens to be more efficient than a decentralized version.




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