#asknostr
Would it be possible to build out a file hosting platform. Access paid in Sats?
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I kinda have one already, end-to-end encrypted and hosted for limited number of days. 🐶🐾🫡
Yeah? How does that work?
It’s strictly email based now. So, the frogtalk.lol comes with email to DM that supports attachments. Once you send an email, you get a text from random generated npub (needed for privacy and my inability to decrypt DMs and keys to files). You get a DM with a link to a file that is encrypted. You get two links, one with key in the IRL(after #) so only your browser sees it, and one just the url that will display prompt for the key. That’s it 🐶🐾🫡
We are working on a scheme for charging for delivery of data with the indra project https://github.com/indra-lab/indra
It provides the delivery guarantee side, provides a service advertisment for delivery of such service. A micropaywall to access a file repository on a bytes of data basis would be very easy to construct, indra forms the first leg that enables forward anonymity, and the user provides the return path, protecting their location from the hosting service.
We are putting the finishing touches on the hidden service protocol also, which would enable such file hosting to be anonymous both for the client side and server side. Currently there is no accounting enabled for hidden services to charge for read/write access, but this will be necessary to complete the protocol.
Indra is being designed from the ground up to be extremely unopinionated and flexible. If you can think of ways in which charging for forwarding data from one point to another can be part of a service protocol it can give you the monetisation side to make it profitable/break even.
I'd be worried about the liability.
Dealing with DMCA takedowns and CSAM investigations by law enforcement has a cost. If you don't have a responsive team dealing with it, you risk being raided or having your upstream transit terminated.
Loser
