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1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 21-May-2021 14:56:38 EDT lnxw48a1
   What I find weird when I read articles like https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/how-to/how-to-farm-chia-coin-the-new-storage-based-cryptocurrency about #chiacoin is that no one is saying anything about someone paying to store data on the platform.
   
   It has been a while since I've read about IPFS Filecoin, MaidSafeCoin, Storj, and so on, but my memory believes that each of these have some sort of store-your-data-for-a-fee that feeds through to the storage providers for the network.
   
   Creating "plots" to get paid is fine, but at some point, someone needs to pay to store actual data or the scheme will collapse and blow away.
   1. GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 21-May-2021 16:48:36 EDT GeniusMusing

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      @lnxw48a1
      Somehow I think you would need something like this to really make any money but the outlay is pretty big to start.
      Open Source Storage Server: 60 Hard Drives 480TB Storage
      https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-server/
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 21-May-2021 17:06:07 EDT lnxw48a1

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         @geniusmusing At that point, it is probably easier to run ceph and start a "cloud storage" provider than to spend $12K+ and hope that whoever is funding this does not run out of money before they get paying customers.