(memeit.lol) - Store Data on Blockchain

furkanaydemir (45)in #utopian-io • 6 years ago

Repository

https://github.com/memeit-lol/memeit.lol

Components

memeit.lol is a meme platform based on Steem blockchain. You can create funny memes in memeit.lol and share it on Steem BlockChain. But the problem is that the memeit.lol keeps the post's data in a custom database.
Even if the posts are saved in the blockchain, all data will be lost if their database is destroyed. So even if it is blockchain-based, it is not distributed.

Proposal

It would be more logical to keep the post data in blockchain to make it more secure. Steam BlockChain has advanced options to sharing posts. When a post is shared, you can save a custom json_metadata to the blockchain as well. So, the memeit.lol team can keep the data directly in the Steam blockchain instead of a custom database.

For example, the Utopian(previous) frontend kept a lot of data on the blockchain like github repository information, moderation information, contribution score etc. So, memeit.lol data can be stored in blockchain as json_metadata in this way. You can see the details from the picture below.

Ekran Resmi 2018-06-01 19.57.01.png

Mockups / Examples

This suggestion does not involve mockup because it is a technical suggestion.

Benefits

Keeping the data in the blockchain will make the memeit.lol project more transparent. The memeit.lol will get better because the data is kept in blockchain, not in a database. So even if the memeit.lol site is hacked, the data will remain safe.

GitHub Account

https://github.com/furkanaydemir14

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6 years ago in #utopian-io by furkanaydemir (45)

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kennybll (59) 6 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion. I think you are right somethings should be stored on the blockchain for security of data. To do as utopian did we would have to store steemconnect tokens in our database. Utopian when they had a frontend stored the access token and when an update happened would change the post to the correct json_metadata (which you can only do with access tokens/keys). I don't want to do this only because I don't want to be responsible for someone else's keys. I'm working on keeping the access token in the browser, while this doesn't help the problem you proposed in this post, I just wanted to let you know about that.

I think storing data in the Steem database similiar to @steemmonsters would be awesome. But right now it might not be applicable (yet!). I would have to talk to the team and moderators and make sure they're comfortable with 100% transparency during moderation.

I thank you for bringing this up. I think this is an important issue for not only us, but other apps too (not keeping things in databases but on chain).

Just a side note, I think it would be really cool for there to be a subchain of Steem for storing files/images/sound and what not. I believe Steemit and @ned took it out (subchaining), but that would be awesome.

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minnowsupport (70) 6 years ago

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