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Inside Internet Archive: 10PB+ of storage in a church... oh, and a little fight to preserve truth

Adam 1

Re: distributed knowledge?

I'm happy to be downvoted but at least make a point about why my post is wrong or stupid or RTFA or something.

@phuzz, thanks for the link. It's good to see they are at least making the right noises. I think it's a bit generous to call it an "all you do" set of instructions. Most commentards here could do it but it is hardly folding@home or seti@home level accessible. There is a lot of focus on the great backup but potential distributed restore plans don't seem as developed. Bad actors are mentioned in passing but not strategies to figure out which is truth when for example a TLA pretends to be multiple actors and restores a different truth.

This would be an interesting application of blockchains or even with as a cryptocurrency. Imagine mining by proving that you have the hash of hundreds of random files from random places in the archive.

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