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0 pointsdlubarov7y ago0 comments

Why do you call that behavior irrational? Seems like it would save some bandwidth costs, as the parent suggests.

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wmf7y ago

AFAIK nodes get paid for serving data and they can set the price to be higher than their bandwidth costs, so refusing to serve data is refusing to make money.

beambot7y ago

If you are the only surviving node with the data, then it's called extortion or holding the data hostage.

wmf7y ago

Preventing that kind of problem is basically the point of Filecoin and similar systems.

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wmf7y ago

AFAIK nodes get paid for serving data and they can set the price to be higher than their bandwidth costs, so refusing to serve data is refusing to make money.

beambot7y ago

If you are the only surviving node with the data, then it's called extortion or holding the data hostage.

wmf7y ago

Preventing that kind of problem is basically the point of Filecoin and similar systems.

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