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Incentives must be created for storing content. Imagine if each request was really more like a bounty where the requester would pay the host when the file is de
by xwdv 5y ago
Incentives must be created for storing content. Imagine if each request was really more like a bounty where the requester would pay the host when the file is delivered.
- sergiotapia 5y agoThis is what I'm saying. If there's a financial incentive to store popular content, or a higher incentive to host "at-risk" content this would work out, no? I have no idea how hard this would be to implement. I'm new to ipfs and crypto.
- xwdv 5y agoThe way it works is by using a smart contract so that content and payment can be exchanged simultaneously and payment is only delivered when the hash of the file matches what is expected.
- j_mo 5y agoI think "you host mine, I'll host yours" works better here than a financial incentive. If you can specify "I've got 1gb spare to replicate other people's assets, as long as each of them replicates mine in return" then your incentive to replicate other people's sites is more redundancy and bandwidth for your own. If you also prioritise files that have the least replicas across the entire network, and allow servers to re-distribute the content they are replicating, it would surely become quite hard for a file to be lost forever. This makes more sense to me than having each site pay for their own data to be replicated, because those who don't pay don't get their content replicated, which results in missing content when the server eventually disappears. That is just as bad as HTTP.
- forgotmypw17 5y ago> If you also prioritise files that have the least replicas across the entire network, and allow servers to re-distribute the content they are replicating, it would surely become quite hard for a file to be lost forever. How would this stand up to an attack of uploading random data in large quantities?