djwhitt

You're welcome! I have some questions about how the network is going to play out over time wrt mining centralization and access incentivization, but their overall funding model seems sound to me. It's based an endowment that pays out over time to fund storage mining. Their yellow paper (https://www.arweave.org/yellow-paper.pdf) is worth a read if you want to learn about all the details.

Arweave (https://www.arweave.org/) is attempting it. Of course, we'll have to wait and see if they're successful.

People have to keep renewing the contract to pay for those copies though. Afaik there's nothing that guarantees people will maintain them indefinitely after the contract expires.

How do you think this would play out? My intuition is that the not-for-profits wouldn't even be close to sustainable (even with cost cutting). Are you anticipating a huge influx of funding for them or do you think they could cut costs that drastically?

Serious question, are there any new components in the SLS worth copying?

You can still find them online. I ordered one off Amazon after the acquisition.

Elon previously indicated that it was ok to use water:

"For the Model S lithium-ion battery, it was correct to apply water (vs. dry chemical extinguisher)..."

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/model-s-fire