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I find it interesting you are using kickstarter to fund this, when everyone (and their dog) seems to get ridiculous amounts of BTC thrown at them when they post
by chuckup 12y ago
I find it interesting you are using kickstarter to fund this, when everyone (and their dog) seems to get ridiculous amounts of BTC thrown at them when they post their project ideas to bitcointalk. Why not raise funds in BTC?
Also, in this thread you say "There are proof of storage techniques" - I have seen others talk about this (paying people to store data: StorJ, maidsafe) and it seems flawed - you can never know how many copies of your data are truly floating around. If you give me a financial incentive to store "multiple copies of data" I will do it in the cheapest possible way, which means storing it on 1 machine and lying about it.
There is a big difference between storing 20 copies of a file on 1 hard drive vs 1 copy x 20 hard drives, but there is no algorithm that can tell me (the file owner) which is occurring. How do you plan on monetizing "store other people's data" fairly?
- wmf 12y agoMaybe you could use erasure coding instead of replication so that dedupe isn't possible. There's still a Sybil attack where multiple blocks end up getting deleted by the same peer.
- im3w1l 12y agoYou have to make sure that somehow the person storing the erasure codes can't first deduce the original data, and then from this regenerate the erasure codes. Maybe that is not a hard problem?