These high on-chain storage costs prevent the vast majority of web 2.0 applications from being implementable on today’s general-purpose blockchains, even if using bridges to storage-focused blockchains such as Arweave or Filecoin. At current prices, even storing a single link to Arweave or Filecoin on a general-purpose chain would cost between $0.1... See more
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I like the life of ideas so much in my head that I often am reluctant to bring them into the world, even when I know my life and others' lives may be better when the thing gains external life
h/t (Davey Morse / Plexus)