You can by 50 years of Amazon s3 storage for 50 years for about 1 penny per byte. There are plenty of ways to make the data you are storing immutable and persistent that wouldn’t add significantly to that cost. As time goes on the cost of this storage will continue dropping. I can’t think of anything we are fighting over that warrants bitcoin as the storage layer vs the orders of magnitude cheaper Amazon option.

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1) 50 years is not infinite years. 2) 0.1sat/vB is about $0.0011/B or 1/10th of that cost. 3) AWS and other cloud computing services charge ingress and egress fees in addition to storage fees. 4) They can change the prices at any time. 5) How can you make data on AWS immutable? 6) They have ToS that must be followed, including what types of content can be hosted. These policies can change at any time. 7) Examples where cloud computing services wouldn't work but Bitcoin would: malware, c2, breach data, classified or copyrighted data, CSAM, anything else that's illegal in any of the jurisdictions where nodes are running or clients are retrieving data from nodes. 8) If there's better places to store all this garbage, GREAT! Either way, let's make Bitcoin's timechain a place that doesn't allow arbitrary data storage again. It was designed for financial transactions, maybe some small smart contract scripts. Now, close to 60% of the timechain is non-financial garbage data. Bitcoin is a "Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" NOT Electronic Trash System