Again, it’s not about the raw cost, but about not needing to worry about the cost and having things run “forever”. Even if you use AWS, you still need to pay your bill every month.
I don’t really understand your argument, tbh. Like what if you have an app that only needs to serve 1 KB of data. From your own calculation, it would be much more cost effective and operationally effective to use a blockchain. But you seem to be saying that doesn’t make sense because you could serve 1 KB from a more expensive thing with over provisioned storage.
> Again, it’s not about the raw cost, but about not needing to worry about the cost and having things run “forever”. Even if you use AWS, you still need to pay your bill every month.
It's not free though, you're hoping that the system is kept up by other people paying for it.
And in general blockchains are very obtuse to actually interact with. Pretty much everyone is using a centralized, traditional interface to it. Which means you might as well do it the old boring way.
> I don’t really understand your argument, tbh. Like what if you have an app that only needs to serve 1 KB of data.From your own calculation, it would be much more cost effective and operationally effective to use a blockchain.
If you need to serve 1KB of data, there's lots of places that'll do it for free. Github, pastebin, random forums, etc.
The point wasn't that I want to store 1KB. The point is that even a insignificant amount of data, the sort that is a rounding error on modern hardware, is already quite expensive to store.
> But you seem to be saying that doesn’t make sense because you could serve 1 KB from a more expensive thing with over provisioned storage.
I'm addressing your "I said it would be more efficient than a Raspberry Pi." by making some quick calculations to show that the blockchain is not just behind a Pi, but literally millions of times worse. It's not only not competitive, it's not anywhere near the same ballpark even.
I don’t really understand your argument, tbh. Like what if you have an app that only needs to serve 1 KB of data. From your own calculation, it would be much more cost effective and operationally effective to use a blockchain. But you seem to be saying that doesn’t make sense because you could serve 1 KB from a more expensive thing with over provisioned storage.