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Filecoin that you pay to have any files you like mirrored by many people, in a decentralized way. Arweave is also a one off fee to have the file mirrored forev
by TimJRobinson 5y ago
Filecoin that you pay to have any files you like mirrored by many people, in a decentralized way.
Arweave is also a one off fee to have the file mirrored forever, the hosters are paid from the yield earned on that fee.
- TimJRobinson 5y agoSorry hacker news had an outage and somehow removed the first half of this comment and it's too late to edit now. Top was: You are correct about IPFS, it's just like torrents. There are services like Arweave, Sia and Filecoin where you can pay...
- pcthrowaway 5y agoArweave nodes can choose not to store data (and will likely drop data that's not profitable over time also), so I'm not sure that it's really a solution.
- TimJRobinson 5y agoIndividual nodes can choose not to store it, but your data is sharded amongst many nodes. Usually it's something like 64/96 redundancy - it's sharded across 96 nodes and at least 64 must be online to retrieve the data. It gets re-distributed if some nodes are offline for a while (not sure on specific numbers)