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Re:Gitchain: Decentralized P2P Git Repos aka "Git meets Bitc... by sillysaurus3 on Friday May 16, 2014 @10:00PM (#7758979)
What prevents someone from using this to store backups of their harddrives, photos, etc, and consuming as much space as possible?
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Re:Gitchain: Decentralized P2P Git Repos aka "Git meets Bitc... by wmf on Friday May 16, 2014 @10:27PM (#7759037)
It needs an incentive model, like for every GB of space you provide you get a GB of space from peers.
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Re:Gitchain: Decentralized P2P Git Repos aka "Git meets Bitc... by yrashk on Friday May 16, 2014 @10:28PM (#7759042)
There are proof of storage techniques. I already listed some references in the paper I am working on (https://github.com/gitchain/gitchain/blob/master/gitchain.te...)
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