Comment by andai
5 hours 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 :)
5 hours 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 :)
P2p 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.
Imagine a proof-of-space cryptocurrency that encouraged archiving long-tail data.