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octet1 on Dec 17, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Third Web

Arweave, for one, uses blockchain for a novel approach to data storage.

dmitriid on Dec 17, 2021 [–]

It's not novel. It's IPFS with all the problems of IPFS made a magnitude worse by financial incentives.

octet1 on Dec 20, 2021 | [–]

Looking at this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Arweave/comments/gu5elw/arweave_per...

The advantage it has over IPFS is guaranteed permanence and the incentivization is core to that functionality.

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