Re:Filecoin: A Decentralized Storage Network [pdf]
by zippoxer on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @04:02PM
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Exactly. As long as there's demand to keep hosting files in the network, there WILL be providers hosting your files. Even if a hosting company who hosts 5% of the network (that's a lot) decides to exit the and stop hosting, your files are spread between enough computers and you only need about half of them to be online to recover your files.
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Re:Filecoin: A Decentralized Storage Network [pdf]
by jondubois on Thursday July 20, 2017 @03:27AM
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Unless some parts of your data happened to be replicated across multiple shards on that same hosting company's hardware. Then you would have a partial loss of data.
The bad thing is that you would not be able to hold them responsible.