This reminds me of the concept of Permacoin (https://www.cs.umd.edu/~elaine/docs/permacoin.pdf https://www.cs.umd.edu/~elaine/docs/permacoin.pdf). Maybe they sh

This reminds me of the concept of Permacoin (https://www.cs.umd.edu/~elaine/docs/permacoin.pdf https://www.cs.umd.edu/~elaine/docs/permacoin.pdf). Maybe they should give it a thought? The idea is to create a financial incentive to store chunks of a huge dataset by using proof-of-retrievability algorithms to mine a cryptocurrency.