i'm very interested to see where this blossom thing goes because i think the content addressable distributed store thing has been tapped out in the complex forms that it has appeared so far (bittorrent, IPFS, Arweave) and a simple, nearly retardedly simple version of it has a much better chance of layering into a proper club sandwich

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The "issues" with the existing systems is that they try to solve more than one problem.

Torrents have proven themselves so I cant really criticize them. but IPFS tried to solve p2p, DNS, Data Storage, along with content addressable files... It bit off more than it could chew

I have not looked into Arweave much but going off their site and that they mention bitcoin, and "permanent data" I think they might be making the same mistake IPFS did

yes, i have had recent direct contact with the arweave project and after reading lots of their material i assess it the same way

so i cheer for your work with blossom, i think that there is power in simplicity that young, clever devs don't understand, until we club them around the head a few thousand times with the reasons why they are wrong (you learn it from experience anyway, but you can reason it out and i hope that more clarity on this comes in the coming years).

this is why I'm a #golang programmer - go is the same principle distilled into a language... simplify, layer, and make it able to run concurrently without race conditions