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RE: Steemit Images under 1mb could be stored on the Blockchain using Base64!
Interesting concept! The problem with using Base64 encoded resources is that there is a 33% overhead! And as others have mentioned, embedding the images inside the post will make the blockchain grow out of hand. Maybe in future, steem can support binary objects BLOBs like in databases like mysql? It could be like how emails embed file attachments, though that is done as encoded text. If there is support for binary objects, at least there wouldn't be the overhead.
Or maybe steem can interface with Storj or MaidSafe for storing image resources?!
Yes I was doing more research and found the 33% larger aspect , will add this to the post. The blockchain is just not meant to support it!
Right, that is why I thought that if those resources could be stored as BLOB objects, then it would not have the overhead from the need to encode to text with base64. I don't know if Storz uses a blockchain but if it does, then it means they have accomplished such a task.