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> These libraries typically make it very easy to connect to the nearest node, which you can treat as pay-once-read-forever compute instances. Where reading and
by throw10920 5y ago
> These libraries typically make it very easy to connect to the nearest node, which you can treat as pay-once-read-forever compute instances. Where reading and and all bandwidth is free.
> You can completely ignore the cringy ideology if you prefer to and just accept that people are willing to store your crap for free forever.
These are extremely strong and unusual claims. Computers and storage and bandwidth and power all cost money. Very very few things in life are free - even things that you might think of as such, such as libraries, which are funded or subsidized through other means. "people are willing to store your crap for free forever" is so hard to believe as to almost sound like satire.
Please provide justification for these claims.
- vmception 5y agoWell, its whats happening. Its really important for you (and others) to have assurances that it will keep happening. Not really sure where to start there. What I described is actually a cynical description of blockchains, but blockchain nodes store everything written in perpetuity. a subset of that information is necessary to sustain the blockchain, there are reasons why some nodes store more than what is necessary. if you are willing to pay to store more information, there are a lot of free backups of it automatically, which are also free to recover from, as many times as you want. that competes directly with the SaaS model that charges or meters uploading the information, reading the information, downloading the information, storing the information, accessing the information or some combination thereof. those SaaS services also come with the questions of how long that information will remain available.