Hi guys! I think there could be good use for a EIP for a smart contract standard that is designed to hold HTML so a browser could be built to point directly at it.
I know there is IPFS, but the goal of a standard like this would be so that apps could be built that cannot be shut down by governments. IPFS is still hosted on machines that can be removed. For example a website that points out bad doctors. These kinds of website are removed from the web all the time and powerful people are protected.
If a standard was created for hosting HTML and text then app could be built directly on ethereum without the need to maintain a server. They would of course be more expensive to interact with, but for some things like the example I pointed out there is no other way for some people to get a message to the world.
Anyway I’m looking for anyone who might want to help me on this. Thanks.
Jul 25, 2019, 8:57 PM
I am working on aleph.im that makes kinda what you are proposing
As a layer 2 network
Jul 25, 2019, 9:17 PM
Cool, but looks a little more complex than what I’m proposing. I think we can do a simple smart contract solution. In fact I could build a demo right now, but there is no standard. It ust needs to be a smart contract with like getHtml on it. If no one has heard of anything like that I’ll write up a proposal.
Jul 25, 2019, 10:50 PM
Think of gas price too
Jul 25, 2019, 10:50 PM
Right. This is not for saving gas. This is for censorship when nothing else will work.
Jul 25, 2019, 10:55 PM
Ethereum nodes also can be banned, ipfs network is mostly similar to ethereum network
Jul 26, 2019, 8:22 AM
and good thing about ipfs, is that you can ask any relaying node and he will get you the data from where it is
Jul 26, 2019, 9:24 AM
the contract layer is not ready to hold a large amount of data, plus a contract can store up to 3.65gb of data and will hit limits if you keep on storing html
Hey guys,
I'm looking to form an alliance around EIP 1973 with independent developers or companies, so that together we can move it to final stage from Draft. Could you guys get in touch if you are interested in working together and making Ethereum better!
https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-1973.md
I'm looking to form an alliance around EIP 1973 with independent developers or companies, so that together we can move it to final stage from Draft. Could you guys get in touch if you are interested in working together and making Ethereum better!
https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-1973.md
Jul 26, 2019, 3:28 PM
A standard website can be less than 1mb with no images. In he event later that’s pretty cheap, plus you would pull in data from other parts of the blockchain to display.
Jul 26, 2019, 4:26 PM
How would js work for such a website?
Jul 26, 2019, 6:15 PM
You probably wouldn’t include much, but it would work just like html. It’s all static anyway. It’s part of the text string. The whole website is just one packaged text string just when you use webpack. There could be a special syntax for pulling in data from other smart contracts though. Like instead of URLs there could BRLs that point to read data from other smart contracts. Nothing new would have to be programmed into ethereum. It could all be handled by the custom browser.
Jul 26, 2019, 10:03 PM