How might we incentivize distributed, redundant cloudflare equivalent services to sprout? Blossom redundancy, and tollgate sats incentives come to mind cc @hzrd149 @TollGate @Arjen
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can't use cloudfront or aws will go down. can't use cloudflare or else it will go down. maybe we need better CDN tech
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Arjen 1 month ago
To do CloudFlare the nostr way: image Services (behind a firewall) can pay public servers to give them a tunnel to a public ip address. They could do that to several servers at once, where the provider's sole business could be fending of spam. If one of em causes too much spam you could just cut it off. An interesting thought i'm having now is you could selectively reveal some of your ip addresses to your WoT, so your service always stays up for them, even if you're under attack through the publicly known IP's. I did a half-assed experiment named 'NoPorts' that would provide such a service. Anyone that likes to further explore this concept should join @Sovereign Engineering in March next year! PS: The local dns part of this image is nice, but not necessary. View quoted note →
To get a performant architecture on this and make the incentives work is really tricky, but we think we've cracked it. Lighting is still too heavy, so we put chaumian microcredits on the wire. There are a whole set of integrated problems that you kind of have to solve at the same time to get this to work, but once you do, it all snaps together