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Re:IPFS Pics by imglorp on Friday October 23, 2015 @08:33AM (#10438162)
What if you pay the network to host your blocks by hosting some other blocks from the cloud, at some m:n ratio? The cloud (some random peer) could periodically check your block inventory and make sure you were still holding up your end.

edit: surely that's been done before?

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Re:IPFS Pics by johnmaguire2013 on Friday October 23, 2015 @10:37AM (#10438812)
Really, this whole concept is similar to torrents. Either ratio-based (upload at least X % of what you download), or HnR based (don't download something and refuse to seed it.)
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