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same reason why people seed torrent?

• s_kilk 10y ago
  Notably, no-one seeds torrents from their mobile connections. The cost would be prohibitive, without even getting into the issue of storage.
  • rv11 10y ago
    cost is prohibitive today, not necessarily tomorrow or work only when you are using wifi . storage can be capped.
  • hatsunearu 10y ago
    The idea is that companies or people backing the content could easily provision more nodes to meet the demand. To create an IPFS "host", its super simple: ipfs pin myhash