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ihsotas 3 months ago
I provided pricing on one of the more expensive options out there. You can get hosting for much cheaper. Also you are comparing bitcoin costs when it is at the historic minimum. If you want to store a lot data on bitcoin the prices go up rapidly. To buy a whole block, a scant 4mb you are looking at 6k at the low and 30k+ at the high. All the things you discussed as being only suitable for Bitcoin are currently distributed using traditional methods. Bitcoin is a poor use case for data storage. As for immutability you could run for very cheap a small network of ipfs nodes or sia or another storage scheme that allows for sharding of data so that no single node hosts the whole file but the file is retrievable by anyone with the keys. No single node is liable for anything because a shard of data is meaningless. A Bitcoin node operator can’t know what is in a node without running separate software or building custom scripts to extract the embedded data and then more software to interpret the data as an image. They are a network relay and the person responsible for the content is the one who embedded it just as the person responsible for sending csam over the internet is the sender not the network operator.
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Jerome Powell 21iQ 40TPW 3 months ago
0) You're thinking in terms of bulk data storage for an individual. Think small amounts of illegal data stored/distributed by many people/groups over decades. 1-4) You haven't addressed. 5) Immutable node software running on cloud servers means nothing when the owner of those servers shuts it down for violating 6. Even with sharding, they will comply with takedown requests. 6-7) You now need to look at so called bulletproof hosting providers who's ToS aligns with your content and hope they don't get raided. 9) Because of 5-7 you need lots of redundancy. Why pay for 30k different bulletproof hosting services forever? You can pay once per Bitcoin transaction and have the data outlive everything else. 10) Suppose you're the ECB and you want to introduce a contentious CBDC. First you ban cash and let banks exchange it for CBDC. You ban Bitcoin, but your subjects keep using it anyway. You embed some hate speech (already done) in the blockchain, but you've already overplayed that card and they see through it. Sprinkle in a little CSAM on it and register them all as sex offenders. Checkmate. 11) We can eliminate all of these abuses by simply not giving non-monetary data a home on the Bitcoin timechain. BitCOIN is a "Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" NOT Electronic Trash System. #Enshitcoinification
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