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Re: Project Idea - Decentralized Twatter
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pooya87
on 17/12/2021, 04:51:34 UTC
This was my original question - How could you use existing blockchains to provide a decentralized version of twitter?  The https://memo.cash/ mentioned above does this but poorly.  I will look more into this option as I agree, this is probably the best option.  If I found a blockchain that is secure and cheap to send transactions, maybe I could build a website that reads all transactions in said blockchain and replicates a twitter feed using the messages in each transaction. Could even require the beginning of the message to have a specific key to remove transactions not intended to send message.
You don't need to and you shouldn't use the blockchain of a cryptocurrency to post messages. As I said it should be built on top of that blockchain for example a bitcoin side-chain. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Sidechain
It could also solve the issue with price to some extent as the tokens on that side-chain will be pegged to bitcoin and mining of the coin could be performed by the same bitcoin miners (merge mined). In that separate chain the protocol can be anything you like because it is a semi-stand-alone blockchain so the transactions in that chain can cost whatever you want while it still needs bitcoin's security to operate.