Title: Decentralized Travel Booking Platform Post by: Amaze World on April 20, 2022, 09:26:22 AM Just listened to Vitalik on Naval Podcast. It was a great talk. It raises some questions in mind about the true decentralization that Etherium is trying to achieve, and how we can implement that vision in the travel sector.
We are designing a decentralized travel booking platform for the tourism sector. There are so many limitations, still curious to know the view of the community, what should be the technical aspects that we need to include that make the travel booking truly decentralized? Please provide your feedback, that will help us to make the perfect decentralized platform for the tourism sector. Thank you. Title: Re: Decentralized Travel Booking Platform Post by: dkbit98 on April 20, 2022, 02:29:52 PM We are designing a decentralized travel booking platform for the tourism sector. There are so many limitations, still curious to know the view of the community, what should be the technical aspects that we need to include that make the travel booking truly decentralized? This should not be based on Ethereum, that is not really trying to achieve any true decentralization at all, and we know that most of their nodes are hosted on cloud servers.If you want to build something like this you should use real decentralized network like Bitcoin, or build something on top of bitcoin using some second layer solution or lightning network. Title: Re: Decentralized Travel Booking Platform Post by: BlackHatCoiner on April 20, 2022, 03:52:58 PM It raises some questions in mind about the true decentralization that Etherium is trying to achieve Sure. That's why they're switching to Proof of Stake. So they can make it more decentralized. With a 70% of the coins in circulation being pre-mined. Sure, decentralization and holy God.We are designing a decentralized travel booking platform for the tourism sector. So, how's that related to a blockchain? Create a software where the users can interact from the client in a P2P way if Booking.com is the thing you want to avoid. Money units can be any cryptocurrency you want. Title: Re: Decentralized Travel Booking Platform Post by: n0nce on April 20, 2022, 04:13:02 PM We are designing a decentralized travel booking platform for the tourism sector. So, how's that related to a blockchain? Create a software where the users can interact from the client in a P2P way if Booking.com is the thing you want to avoid. Money units can be any cryptocurrency you want. Bitcoin could definitely be incorporated as the default payment method of course. But the adverts don't have to be stored on a blockchain; that is just very costly and makes little sense. Title: Re: Decentralized Travel Booking Platform Post by: BlackHatCoiner on April 20, 2022, 05:00:05 PM [...] It can work, but I don't see a major benefit. Also, why should you limit the niche of the software? Why don't you create a p2p ebay, instead, which can have any kind of service. Merchants run the servers and customers the clients. I just wonder how can you have a trust score, such as in TrustPilot, in a decentralized manner. (That can't be faked) Title: Re: Decentralized Travel Booking Platform Post by: n0nce on April 20, 2022, 11:20:27 PM [...] It can work, but I don't see a major benefit. Also, why should you limit the niche of the software? Why don't you create a p2p ebay, instead, which can have any kind of service. Merchants run the servers and customers the clients. I just wonder how can you have a trust score, such as in TrustPilot, in a decentralized manner. (That can't be faked) Title: Re: Decentralized Travel Booking Platform Post by: pooya87 on April 21, 2022, 02:57:29 AM The first question you should always be asking is not "how" but "why". In other words you should first investigate why you want to make booking decentralized, what is the benefits and what problems are you going to solve? If you can't find good answers to these questions then it is not a good idea to go the decentralized route.
In my opinion, P2P booking is not a bad idea. For instance, it could work a bit like Bisq or Torrents, where you 'host' your offer yourself on your own machine and other peers can see it whenever your machine is online. There are no centralized servers that can be shut down and customers can interface with you directly, so there's no cut taken away by the platform. That is not exactly P2P though, if there is a single server that is run on your machine there still is a centralized server, it is just not on a third party computer. In torrent network for example the file doesn't exist on a single computer that is why it is pure P2P. But in your idea (same as OpenBazar) if you shut down your computer, the server goes away too.the true decentralization that Etherium is trying to achieve You mean the true centralization that ethereum is trying to achieve. Title: Re: Decentralized Travel Booking Platform Post by: n0nce on April 21, 2022, 09:19:19 AM In my opinion, P2P booking is not a bad idea. For instance, it could work a bit like Bisq or Torrents, where you 'host' your offer yourself on your own machine and other peers can see it whenever your machine is online. There are no centralized servers that can be shut down and customers can interface with you directly, so there's no cut taken away by the platform. That is not exactly P2P though, if there is a single server that is run on your machine there still is a centralized server, it is just not on a third party computer. In torrent network for example the file doesn't exist on a single computer that is why it is pure P2P. But in your idea (same as OpenBazar) if you shut down your computer, the server goes away too.Title: Re: Decentralized Travel Booking Platform Post by: dkbit98 on April 21, 2022, 03:09:48 PM In my opinion, P2P booking is not a bad idea. For instance, it could work a bit like Bisq or Torrents, where you 'host' your offer yourself on your own machine and other peers can see it whenever your machine is online. That sounds interesting, maybe easiest way for them would be to get listed on Bisq exchange, or fork it and make totally new P2P booking software, but I think it would be a problem to get everyone to download, install and use that software.For something like this to work this has to be decentralized, and it can't be connected with Binance/CZ or similar centralized authority that can exclude you from traveling you booked just because someone told him to do it to comply with the new rules. I think that all shitcoin tokens can be frozen so it would be foolish to use that in this platform, unless only thing you want is a money grab ;) Title: Re: Decentralized Travel Booking Platform Post by: Amaze World on April 28, 2022, 09:40:05 AM We are designing a decentralized travel booking platform for the tourism sector. There are so many limitations, still curious to know the view of the community, what should be the technical aspects that we need to include that make the travel booking truly decentralized? This should not be based on Ethereum, that is not really trying to achieve any true decentralization at all, and we know that most of their nodes are hosted on cloud servers.If you want to build something like this you should use real decentralized network like Bitcoin, or build something on top of bitcoin using some second layer solution or lightning network. Right |