0 sats \ 1 reply \ @TonyGiorgio 7 Sep 2023
This is interesting but I'm struggling a bit on what it actually means or what use cases it enables.
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1850 sats \ 0 replies \ @davidw OP 7 Sep 2023
Definitely could be articulated better on the site. A lot of technical details that are beyond most of us.
However what I grasped from it is that it wishes to overcome some limitations, speeding up query & download times on Nostr, which we see can be an issue with some clients.
Not only that it offers a credible alternative to IPFS and avoids the unnecessary full & duplicate download of files for numerous clients and relays.
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“This will unlock a new tier of speed for a variety of decentralized apps that require file directories.”
“Without cryptographically verifiable chunking, users would need to download the entire file to verify it — rather than verifying each chunk immediately after the download. Downloading a very large file before verifying it wastes a lot of time and bandwidth if the file turns out to be incorrect.”
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @davidw OP 7 Sep 2023
- Hornet Storage operates beneath Nostr, storing relay data as Merkle DAGs/Trees in its key-value database.
- The relay manager lets operators view data usage by service and select which services to host.
- e.g. data is tagged with a credential indicating it’s service type, such as “nostr note” for posts, “nostrtube” for a Nostr YouTube video, “stemstr” for a Stemstr music note, and “git” for a got repository folder, among others.
- Browse Nostr without HTTP. Connect to relays directly.
- Hashed organized storage to avoid data duplication, with compressed Merkle branches and batched queries for syncing many missing leaf hashes in a request.
- Warning: Relay is currently in development phase. It is not yet stable and not recommended for production use.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 7 Sep 2023
ELI5?
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