A dream come true :D

Hey am new on steemit please support me to grow.
Hope you will help me out....

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I still have that Acidyo BitcoinTalk account available for sale 60 Steem and its yours.

WoW 40 grand dollar fot this post, thats way beyond sick :o

Good comment

Currently, there still is a central point of failure and that is the `this.piston.rocks` API server. However, I plan to extend this quite a bit and use geolocated DNS with several servers around the globe to make it more robust ..

It's not entirely correct. The default piston setup connects to `this.piston.rocks` as the backend API server. However you can already change it to your own node by running

    piston set node ws://ip:port

There will be a nicer gui feature to do this eventually.

I don't think you will need a lot of "power" to host the Steem network long-term. You will need a lot of disk space, but disks are cheap. The only difficult things for the node to do is a *replay*. Those currently take about 2 minutes (a joke if you conpare to other blockchain techs). Either way, the underlying technology is soooo awesome, that I don't see a scalability issue in near future.

Oh, btw, on this.piston.rocks, there are actually two witness nodes running in parallel, connected to nginx via fail-over/load balancing. That means, I can update the code and replay the one node, while still serving the traffic with the other node and vise versa :)

i asked myself how is it possible to make so much cash for few words

As in internet connectivity between nodes? Yes. This is also something people are working to solve by building mesh networks, custom wifi networks, or even balloons such as the Google Loon project. https://outernet.is/ is another interesting example using micro satellites. Hopefully soon we will **decentralize all the things!**

Tutorials will come when the product is read for the masses. The current code is rather a Proof of Concept and in Alpha stage, even though it can already be used for quite some things. Give me some time to improve it further and I am sure I can release something *stable* in a bit .. (no ETAs in software development)

Thanks @trogdor!

I don't think the early Internet pioneers were as excited as we are right now. When they typed out SMTP commands in their terminal or transferred a file from one university campus to another, I can't imagine they had any idea what they were birthing. We, on the other hand, live with those results all around us. It's hard not to imagine an even more amazing future given the results of the past we currently enjoy.

There are public API nodes (such as `this.piston.rocks`) that run the *same database as steemit.com* (technically, that database is a blockchain). That said, you can

* use steemit.com and their semi-public API
* connect to this.piston.rocks and use that one
* or deploy your own node and use that one

Technically, there is a way for public APIs to profit from offering a public API node and that is: People are asking for the latest posts in a category with a certain sorting, but no one prevents the API provider to put their own posts higher in the ranking. No one actually even prevents them to give your wrong data. That said, you shouldn't trust *any* public API unless you trust the operator but on the other hand, the API provider can use it to monetize their public api service.
This of this as a google ranking. If you get the posts from steemit.com, you will see *their ranking* while when you use another service, you will see another *ranking* (potentially added extra posts to fund their server) .. the only way to get a neutral picture is to use your own server or maybe pay for a neutral party to provide a neutral point of view.

As a note, this.piston.rocks currently provides the most neutral point of view there is but that might, or might not change ..