Um. I am fairly certain you need centralized servers to tell you where everyone is at at any given moment. As well as host content, etc.
So you wouldn't be eliminating any servers ... just making it needlessly complex.
Do people realize that storing 40GB of data on 10,000 computers (decentralized) is a total of 400TB of data? Not to even mention the bandwidth cost?
Blockchain is horrifically inefficient so the value of decentralized has to be worth a hell of a lot for it to mean anything.
So ya ... you'd change the "Who owns what & what skills do they have" from being a $5,000 a year proposition to a $5,000,000 a year proposition by the time you add mining costs, bandwidth, hard drive storage redundancy, etc all in.
Brilliant
Well, there is Huntercoin which proves that the concept can work:
What is Huntercoin?Huntercoin is a Crypto Currency similar to Bitcoin . – see
www.bitcoin.orgThe main difference is that ~80% of the coins are obtainable inside virtual universe which resides inside the blockchain.
What happens when no more coins are generated?
The same as bitcoin, miners will generate income via transacton fees.
All chat and events to getting your coins will be recorded in history for eternity, and can be played back in years to come
HunterCoin can be adapted for other uses with a hard fork (an update) in the future (if it is ever needed) – some ideas include – decentralized microblog.
Link:
http://huntercoin.org/information/faq-info/I've never actually downloaded it but the blockchain size is probably huge though so you do have a valid point.