On Thursday 09 of May 2013 15:04:32 erik quanstrom wrote: > On Thu May 9 15:00:26 EDT 2013, dexen.devr...@gmail.com wrote: > > do you /really/ need Yet Another Networked Filesystem in Plan9? ;-) > > yes, but what does that have to do with bitcoin?
a silly joke was silly... the way i see it -- bitcoin is a distributed, append-only, content-addressable filesystem with eventual consistency. ostensibly designed for transferring coins, but can just as well house arbitrary binary data , be it a portrait and a tribute to departed people [1] or alternative DNS [2]. [1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=33618.0 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin#Namecoin_DNS -- dexen deVries [[[↓][→]]]
