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I think, it's not needed in a technical sense, but in a business sense. Take IPFS, for example. Decentralized hosting without a blockchain. Pretty nifty! Now
by k__ 5y ago
I think, it's not needed in a technical sense, but in a business sense.
Take IPFS, for example.
Decentralized hosting without a blockchain. Pretty nifty!
Now, how do you make sure your stuff stays on the network in a similar decentralized way?
Pinning it in your own node and paying pinning services is still centralized, Filecoin, on the other hand, is not.
- fwip 5y agoThere's nothing in Filecoin to ensure that your data is stored by a reputable party. Even if you store on ten replicas, they could all be the same lowest bidder in the same datacenter.
- SparkyMcUnicorn 5y agoSo just make sure you're using more than one region? And they do have a reputation system.
- fwip 5y agoRegion isn't provable, unless I'm missing some major fundamental advance in FileCoin.