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Why not just do this without the overhead of mining and maintaining a blockchain? Surely there's a more efficient way of maintaining a public distributed file s
by Aunche 9y ago
Why not just do this without the overhead of mining and maintaining a blockchain? Surely there's a more efficient way of maintaining a public distributed file system.
- tylersmith 9y agoThat's what IPFS is. Filecoin is an extension on top of IPFS to allow people to pay to ensure their content stays available.
- pdx 9y agoThere is. It's SAFE Network. https://safenetwork.org/ https://safenetwork.org/
- rictic 9y agoIf you have a system where anyone can provide storage and anyone can buy storage, then you need to have a system to verify that the files are actually being stored. As I understand it, that's filecoin mining. Filecoin eliminates a lot of the overhead of selling storage, but it adds some overhead all its own. The big question is: which is larger, and by how much?
- pfraze 9y agoIn the Dat world, we have https://hashbase.io https://hashbase.io, a self-deployable service for rehosting archives