Re: Storing the bitcointalk forum on a decentralized file system
I think the "Steemit solution" should work without problems, but it would take a lot of preparation time of course. And in general I think it's legit to discuss such ideas, even if some ideas sound impractical. Even theymos has mentioned eventually that he'd prefer a decentralized option for Bitcointalk for the far future.
the steem blockchain has blocks just like bitcoin's blockchain does. and the "transactions" in a block can be different types of activities like replies to postings, postings themselves, upvotes, etc. the steem blockchain apparently records them all!
if we only had the source code to the steem blockchain. oh that's right we do. since it's on github. now all we would need to do is write a "bitcointalk" layer on top of it ala "steemit". steemit is a very complex codebase. but all it is is one huge forum. do we know how to write forums?
the steem blockchain stores all the postings, replies, forum activities that happen on steemit. the only thing it doesn't do is store images. people can put images into their postings though. but those get stored on ipfs. apparently.