Review on Golem by Robiul Islam
First of all, in fact Golem is one of the few Dapps out there in the…
First of all, in fact Golem is one of the few Dapps out there in the blockchain universe, which are already usable and able to deliver a real value. Secondly, once the setup is done and obstacles mentioned above passed, the Golem-client and its interface is pretty intuitive and user friendly. And most importantly — the process of rendering a file actually works. If you are facing any problems during the whole process, a sound community on Reddit and the Golem chat are eager to help out. It is refreshing to see, that Golems community has a strong focus on the product and is committed on its improvement rather than talking Lambo, FOMO, HODL, CHILL…
Golem’s transparency giving regular AMA sessions and showing their progress on Trello encouraged me to be patient and deal with the shortcomings all Betas are facing. Being part of this early adopter community and experience upcoming improvements first hand seems exciting and worth waiting, especially when looking at Golems future. The potential is enormous, looking at the use cases about to come. Machine learning related tasks, data science, hyperparameter space search for neural networks, chemistry related scientific computation, satellite images and financial data are among others on Golems` agenda. All of them will require tremendous amounts of computation power a decentralized network like Golem potentially could provide.
Updated 5 years ago
Rating has not been changed
Brass Golem Beta 0.20.0 which comes with a whole lot of goodies, major change is the complete overhaul of file transfer daemon (hyperg) with own, tailored solution in order to make it faster and more robust, thus removing a major obstacle that often prevented the Golem nodes from correctly finalizing the task’s flow. It will be a major factor in improving the ratio of successes to all assigned tasks for all Golem providers.
Updated 5 years ago
Rating changed from 4 to 5
Golem is a very attractive project, operating in a high potential, growing market. The platform can provide the foundation for many projects and use cases in the future. With these pieces in place, Golem is well positioned for future success. Whether graphic designers, scientific research teams, video game developers, or filmmakers, access to supercomputing power can only make things accessible to wealthy and corporate companies.
Pros
- The Golem Project is a distributed supercomputer. Instead of relying on a centralised server farm, Golem distributes the computational load to a crowd of so called “Providers” . Meaning you and me can rent out their spare computing power in exchange for GNT Tokens. If you think about it, there is probably a lot of time where your computer is just idle, and since you already paid for it that is untapped potential. So Golem is doing to computing time what AirBnB did to flats.
Cons
- The Golem team presents insights on their decision making process in a very transparent way, stating that in the whole ecosystem there is a shortage of devs which forces them to prioritize between delivering better and more advance software and features, or to put the team through the big task that would be switching blockchains — and researching a new alternative. At this stage Golem made its decision to rely on Ethereum and leaving it to them to tackle the issues on payments fees, scaling etc. in the future.
