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(Although if someone makes a whole Platform OS decentralized somehow I might be interested)
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I kind of like that idea but how would that work?
It would mean that your personal documents will be stored everywhere.....
UNLESS, we as a community build an operating system that loads all necessary (OS) files from online (decentralized) sources and the whole thing is open source.
Much like Bitcoin.....
Still, several things, like network adapter drivers should be loaded before everything else, right?
Hmmm, I like this idea.
But it needs work.
We could however start with the best out there, and that is Linux.
Yet, to make it worldwide accepted, we would have to make it user friendly, like windows.
Not a bad idea, but a very diffucult task.
Well it's still a ways down the road but there are building blocks being built now that are laying that foundation.
Bitcoin and its cryptography does wonders for various applications it's just that we haven't thought them all out yet and the underlying technology that could implement it is still being developed in different forms.
One possible implementation would be, maidsafe with its decentralized storage mechanism, that would keep your personal documents secure and safe so that your private documents are stored everywhere and yet nowhere since its secured by cryptography and no one can see whats in there.
In addition if Ethereum can really do what it claims it has the potential to do then it could probably run as an OS far in the future.
Just build enough apps for it, inside the ecosystem like a browser becoming a full feature package then an OS.
That or someone could build a Bitcoin sidechain once some smart developers figure out a solution to that puzzle, its really hard to say what could happen since its predicting the future of where cryptography can go.
But your right at this point its still a very difficult task to do that said it could become a reality if enough related technologies are created and made to accompany it so one step at a time.
http://maidsafe.net/overviewThe SAFE (Secure Access for Everyone) network can be best described as a fully distributed data management service. This network manages static and dynamic data as well as communications. Importantly the data held is either :
Encrypted by clients
Cryptographically signed by clients
In either case
the network cannot decrypt any of the data on the network. This can be thought of as a decentralized server that performs the tasks of today's httpd, ssh, scp, ftp, smtp, pop3, imap etc. servers.
The SAFE network is made up of unused hard drive space, CPU and communications capabilities of commodity computers. These computers are likely owned by the very users of the system, but need not be limited to that. Each computer will effectively mine for credits which can be traded for many other goods and services. These credits are called safecoin.
https://www.ethereum.org/Ethereum is a protocol that is open to all. Any programmer should be able to write smart contracts and Ethereum apps in languages they already are familiar with.
Programmers should also be able to implement the entire specification with relative ease, in order to minimize the influence that any specific individual or group could have on the protocol.
The Ethereum protocol should be as simple as possible, and optimizations which add complexity should not be included unless they provide a very substantial benefit.
