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Title: Do you need a blockchain to build decentralized applications? Post by: 8CommaClub on November 25, 2018, 04:25:16 AM I'm curious , do you need to have a blockchain to run decentralized / permissioned applications? (Example Ethereum)
Is there an alternative way to do this? (Example DAG) Title: Re: Do you need a blockchain to build decentralized applications? Post by: MadGamer on November 25, 2018, 07:34:24 AM Not necessarily, we have BitTorrent, Popcorn time, Tor browser etc. they're all decentralized but none of them uses the blockchain technology. Ethereum seems to facilitate the creation of dApps though and that's why It's what everyone is using now.
Title: Re: Do you need a blockchain to build decentralized applications? Post by: 8CommaClub on November 25, 2018, 03:54:01 PM Not necessarily, we have BitTorrent, Popcorn time, Tor browser etc. they're all decentralized but none of them uses the blockchain technology. Ethereum seems to facilitate the creation of dApps though and that's why It's what everyone is using now. Interesting. Could quantum cryptography be used to create decentralized applications by providing the underlying layer to the technology? Title: Re: Do you need a blockchain to build decentralized applications? Post by: LeGaulois on November 26, 2018, 12:43:32 PM Yep, people have been developing decentralized stuff for 1-2 decade(s) without it. Using the blockchain technology to build Dapp can be done with Sidechain and implementing its distributed ledger, a lot of consensus protocols are possible. Horizen has been working on their own for some time now. "Plasma" from ETH is based on sidechain.
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