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Re:Project Atlas by ndnxhs on Monday October 01, 2018 @11:17PM (#18118563)
In demand content always has plenty of seeders. The stuff that dies is obscure content or large archives. Someone only cares about the data once a year when doing research or something. This network won't solve this because there is no profit in storing data that is very rarely archived. Its a hard problem because you need to rank data on how valuable it is.

A dump of GeoCities is rarely used but has great value. A 1tb archive of videos of me counting grains of sand is also rarely used but worthless.

Re:Project Atlas by anc84 on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @07:24AM (#18120504)
And how would this crypto coin thing help here? Nothing in the announcement deals with obscure, large content.
Re:Project Atlas by ndnxhs on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @08:02AM (#18129357)
I don't think it will. What it will do is stop people seeding content just for others benefit and not expecting a reward.