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I agree that the use cases don't seem to be lining up. So is this for personal use or corporate data center replacement? Consumer companies will give you 2TB fo
by snarf21 7y ago
I agree that the use cases don't seem to be lining up. So is this for personal use or corporate data center replacement? Consumer companies will give you 2TB for $10 with no bandwidth costs with guaranteed replication and sharding built in. What happens when one of these nodes goes down? I didn't see anything in the post about that. I think the thing that always gets lost in these ideas is that there is a reason that people pay these current prices. It is because is solves a real problem and high reliability requires paying people to make sure that is true. A smart contract and collecting micro payments on the hope a cryptocurrency will rise in price have much different skin in the game.
I've always thought the most important use case around decentralized storage was more around censorship. You can post content that is harder to block in countries that firewall AWS, etc.