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Joel Thorstensson: Ceramic – Building the Dataverse

Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies

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Ceramic is a system that doesn't deal with any kind of assets, but it's more data that's produced by the user. Blockchains are hard to scale because they have this requirement of what in the system is called strong consistency. We can kind of loosen that constraint because we're fine with eventual consistency. And so we don't need to always have all the nodes have the same agreement on what the state of the system is. This is really what we achieve with ceramic.

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