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Re:Investor revolt and legal dispute delay Filecoin plans by companyhen on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @07:21PM (#24205492)
Arweave has a pay once, store forever model where after the initial payment to upload (~$0.005/MB) the file is stored forever on the permaweb. You can get started with some free tokens to play with arweave here:

http://tokens.arweave.org/

I also suggest you check out the latest Arweave x Gitcoin Open Web Incubator Demo Day from last week to see the latest stuff being built. Looking forward to ArDrive, Verto, WeaveID and more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slzyw1w5Ric&feature=youtu.be

One further advantage of decentralized UI hosting on Arweave is simply resilience to website outages: https://twitter.com/rleshner/status/1278444807011139585

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Re:Investor revolt and legal dispute delay Filecoin plans by wmf on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @09:55PM (#24206422)
Interesting that this is 1,000 times the price of B2 per month, so if you're willing to pre-pay for 1,000 months (83 years) of service you get the "rest" for free.
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Re:Investor revolt and legal dispute delay Filecoin plans by lazzlazzlazz on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @10:08PM (#24206477)
You're not paying for storage. You're paying for permanent, guaranteed immutable, community-programmable storage immune to seizures, platform changes, manipulation, and censorship.

For the right use cases, that's a bargain.

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Re:Investor revolt and legal dispute delay Filecoin plans by theamk on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @01:33AM (#24207447)
It is only immutable and immune to manipulation while there are enough miners, and there are no hard forks.

While it may look good now, there is a non-zero chance it will disappear within 5 years for some reason or other.

So if your data is really important, better make a backup copy of it somewhere safe, like in B2.

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