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Free storage and hosting? Does this mean anyone can store random stuff in smart contracts and read from it for free?

• Gigachad 3y ago
  You have to pay for the initial insert but it's then hosted forever for free. For reads, you can either download the data from nodes in the network which works somewhat like a torrent, or find a service that has a full copy of the blockchain and is providing it via a HTTP interface.
  • quickthrower2 3y ago
    No absolute guarantee of forever.
    • Rastonbury 3y ago
      I guess there are some ways the ethereum network can cease to exist, when that happens there are probably bigger things to worry about
      • quickthrower2 3y ago
        Ethereum network doesn’t serve on 80 or 443
• tomr75 3y ago
  it costs money to store/write a transaction to the chain (transaction fee) - binance smart chain is subsidised so runs at a loss/pretty cheap to store small amounts of data on (if you did this on ethereum would be very expensive) - retrieval is free in that you can use a public RPC to retrieve the data
• deleted 3y ago
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