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RE: A 'brief' summary of the steem blue paper: and why I've just invested another $1000 in the platform
Nice crunchy overview well targeted to readers who don't want rehash of the basics but want to learn a little deeper.
(I guess those videos are stored off the blockchain?!)
You are exactly right. Storing large amounts of data onchain is a really bad idea for most blockchain implementations. For DTube the steem blockchain stores references to (and, hashes of I believe) the videos, which are actually hosted on IPFS.
Thanks, that was the general idea. I'm starting to think that even just the text is getting a little bloated! Come to think of it, pictures aren't on chain either, are they?!
Yep, pictures are also on IPFS. It's kind of amazing that the steem blockchain is as efficient as it is, given that other chains routinely talk about adding text in the size of dozens of characters to their blocks.