@100 How do you see accessing on chain storage in the future? Why are there not many…

1JLButMZPU7xu2PUBPxekTcpJKPzZuaTuZ (1454) · January 12, 2020

@100 How do you see accessing on chain storage in the future? Why are there not many tools which let me at least sort my data.

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1JLButMZPU7xu2PUBPxekTcpJKPzZuaTuZ (4070) · January 12, 2020

Accessing the data you stored on chain means crawling the entire blockchain to find the data you own (unless you already have a copy of the transaction hashes). That consumes energy and isn't free.

Block explorers already provide such service.

1JLButMZPU7xu2PUBPxekTcpJKPzZuaTuZ (4070) · January 12, 2020

Full nodes (which inc. miners) can access data on demand, but parsing it (i.e. turning a raw transaction into an image) is a different matter.

In the future I believe there will be services that will provide what you're looking for but they won't be free.

1JLButMZPU7xu2PUBPxekTcpJKPzZuaTuZ (1454) · January 12, 2020

I think full nodes are going to become ever more important. I can see that blockchain queries will be essential. Is there any incentive to return transaction data?

1JLButMZPU7xu2PUBPxekTcpJKPzZuaTuZ (4070) · January 12, 2020

The incentive is business:

A service that serves data to all BSV apps/users that have a need for it. Such service makes money on usage, charging customers on # of API queries / month.

Twetch needs such service, especially a reliable one.