>> OrbitDB (and IPFS PubSub) are definitely, absolutely not production ready. But that's another topic.
That seems to be the story of the whole blockchain space unfortunately. It's incomplete at every level of the stack, even the IPFS pub/sub layer still needs a lot of work to scale.
A problem with the blockchain community is that there is an ICO first and then do the work later mentality. This is a bit like the startup mentality of Silicon Valley.
I think that what works for centralization won't work for decentralization. You need the people who own the coins to be skilled and for them to directly contribute to the projects; you don't want your network to be made up of random shareholders who don't understand what they're buying and aren't capable of adding real value to it.
Why did you reference ICO / coins / ...? Ipfs and orbitdb exist without any cryptocurrency. There's filecoin relying on ipfs, but it's pretty isolated.
That seems to be the story of the whole blockchain space unfortunately. It's incomplete at every level of the stack, even the IPFS pub/sub layer still needs a lot of work to scale.
A problem with the blockchain community is that there is an ICO first and then do the work later mentality. This is a bit like the startup mentality of Silicon Valley.
I think that what works for centralization won't work for decentralization. You need the people who own the coins to be skilled and for them to directly contribute to the projects; you don't want your network to be made up of random shareholders who don't understand what they're buying and aren't capable of adding real value to it.