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Sounds like there's a gap in the market for a "commons" archive... maybe powered by something p2p like BitTorrent protocol? This would have sounded Very Normal
by andai 9mo ago
Sounds like there's a gap in the market for a "commons" archive... maybe powered by something p2p like BitTorrent protocol?
This would have sounded Very Normal in the 2000s... I wonder if we can go back :)
- bawolff 9mo agoP2p is generally bad for this usecase. P2P generally only works for keeping popular content around (content gets dropped when the last peer that cares disconnects). If the content was popular it wouldnt need to be archived in the first place.
- quotemstr 9mo agoImagine a proof-of-space cryptocurrency that encouraged archiving long-tail data.
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- pwdisswordfishy 9mo ago/dev/random as a free money printer? Sign me up.
- andai 9mo agoI think if you take this idea far enough you end up reinventing taxes from first principles.
- PhilipRoman 9mo agoIMO there is actually a very low hanging fruit here, even without P2P or DHTs we could have an URI scheme that consists of a domain and document hash. It is then up to the user to add alternate mirrors for domains. Aside from privacy, it doesn't really matter who answers these requests since the documents are self-signing.