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0 pointsneilalexander4y ago0 comments

Note that the system requirements are way out of the league of the average home user (32GB RAM, 8 cores, several TB disk space). Plus, if the chain is growing at 38GB/day (as the Filecoin website suggests), that’s a traffic average of 3.8Mbit/s 24 hours a day.

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leesalminen4y ago· 1 in thread

You could always download the IPFS Desktop client and "pin" content that you find valuable to provide to the community, (say, a partial copy of Wikipedia in your language [0]. No crypto-based incentives associated with that though, at least yet.

[0] https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror#cohost-...

acdha4y ago

Wikipedia changes every second. That seems like a very expensive combination for a CAS system — even with good deduplification you’re storing a lot of metadata tracking every revision.

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