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From my reading of the whitepaper, the protocol forces the data to be replicated by scrambling it with the miner's public key. It's not possible to have two ide
by woah 9y ago
From my reading of the whitepaper, the protocol forces the data to be replicated by scrambling it with the miner's public key. It's not possible to have two identities using the same backing storage. However, two identities could use the same account or even the same disk, in which case the data would be replicated on that disk, which is useless. At the same time, there is no benefit to the miner to doing things that way.
As far as "running away", the miner is paid by the network for proving they are storing some data at a certain time. It's not like a storage contract for someone's individual data paid up front.
- xorcist 9y agoIf it's scrambled by the miner's public key, why can't the miner un-scramble it?
- kalmi10 9y agoThe miner has to serve the "scrambled" data (or derived proof). The "scrambling" is slow enough that the miner cannot do it in realtime. It's in the whitepaper.
- TrickyRick 9y agoIt's probably encrypted with the owner's public key, just an educated guess though.
- mappum 9y agoThey can, the idea is that they can mine more efficiently by storing the scrambled version rather than storing it unscrambled and re-scrambling when they need to generate a mining proof.