Why? That is the thing that excites me the most. Though it isn't thightly locked with the whole STX-side of things which isn't as interesting to me.
Only needing some "dumb" storage media to store your application data and "cloud" files unlocks suddenly a user-centric way for everyone to store data. It also unlocks real competition on the infrastructure layer.
You don't make your own generator and make your own power, -- you don't buy power from say Dell because it needs "Dell electricity". Data should be like this too, ability to be owned and controlled purely by the user (as in you have solar panels + battery) or what most people would do: delegate the work to a power provider.
Ofc not real competition in the "power provider" case since there's physical stuff happening, but for data storage (and batch/"offline" computation and event/webhook handling) a user will be able to set up their own raspberry pi or just use say Amazon to store the encrypted data. :)
I find it fits 100% in to the world I'd want to live in. ^_^
Only needing some "dumb" storage media to store your application data and "cloud" files unlocks suddenly a user-centric way for everyone to store data. It also unlocks real competition on the infrastructure layer.
You don't make your own generator and make your own power, -- you don't buy power from say Dell because it needs "Dell electricity". Data should be like this too, ability to be owned and controlled purely by the user (as in you have solar panels + battery) or what most people would do: delegate the work to a power provider.
Ofc not real competition in the "power provider" case since there's physical stuff happening, but for data storage (and batch/"offline" computation and event/webhook handling) a user will be able to set up their own raspberry pi or just use say Amazon to store the encrypted data. :)
I find it fits 100% in to the world I'd want to live in. ^_^