[HN Gopher] SnarkOS: A Decentralized Operating System for Zero-K...
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SnarkOS: A Decentralized Operating System for Zero-Knowledge
Applications
Author : nateb2022
Score : 20 points
Date : 2023-06-27 21:10 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| splix wrote:
| I tried to find any description of the project, but no luck.
| Github readme is only about running it. Link to the website
| redirects back to the Github. Mentioned Aleo network website
| doesn't say anything about the project too, it's basically just
| "Intrigued? Subscribe below", and it's unclear if the projects
| are related at all. Okay, I'm intrigued. So what the project
| does?
| 3np wrote:
| Links to more resources from
| https://developer.aleo.org/getting_started/
| splix wrote:
| It doesn't really say anything (and it was not clear that
| these two projects are related).
|
| I mean it doesn't say what is it. Is it a blockchain? Is it a
| network protocol? It it a development SDK for something? If
| latter, the for what? Or maybe it's an app container like
| Docker or Kubernetes but encrypted? Or guessing by the name,
| an Operating System, it must be run on some hardware? What
| hardware it supports? Though from the "installation" section
| it doesn't seem that it's an Operating System at all. So what
| it is?
| nvdr wrote:
| Its a new 'decentralized' blockchain network. I believe SnarkOS
| is the virtual machine used to run (d)apps (exchanges, games,
| markets). Most popular blockchains (Bitcoin, Ethereum) are
| psuedo-anonymous. And Aleo aims to be private by default, with
| the use of zero-knowledge protocols.
|
| There are private blockchains like Monero, however they're
| some-what limited to just the cryptocurrency use-case.
| xk_id wrote:
| The VM is called snarkVM. SnarkOS is just a client utility to
| interact with the VM and the nodes.
| xk_id wrote:
| Not sure what exactly about blockchain projects short circuits
| some people's brains. SnarkOS features extensively in the Aleo
| documentation, which is linked right at the bottom of the first
| page, where it should be. It also comes up in some of their
| blog posts. It's a client to interact with the Aleo blockchain,
| like gEth. It's used to deploy apps, etc.
| splix wrote:
| I'm just suggesting to add a one-two sentence description to
| understand if it's something worth exploring or not. I
| understand that people can go to some videos, spent some time
| reading bunch of articles, etc, but if they don't know what
| kind of project is this it's unlikely to happen.
|
| As I mentioned below, my question: is it a blockchain? Is it
| a network protocol? It it a development SDK for something? If
| latter, the for what? Or maybe it's an app container like
| Docker or Kubernetes but encrypted? Or guessing by the name,
| an Operating System, it must be run on some hardware? What
| hardware it supports? Though from the "installation" section
| it doesn't seem that it's an Operating System at all.
| noman-land wrote:
| This is cool. I'd like to see some application level code.
| sweetjuly wrote:
| This isn't an operating system in the sense that everyone else
| means when they say "operating system". You can't run it on bare
| metal. This seems to just be a user program. It's an operating
| system in same way that your email client is a mail operating
| system (that is, in name only).
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