We can reduce cloud storage costs by a lot if we could build an easy market-place for buying and selling storage/cpu/ram on open decentralized markets, basically whatever FileCoin was trying to do without the shitcoinery.
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Nostr is probably the best place for this
It is, im trying to figure it out, payouts are a challenge, but trying to see if we can circumvent it
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Check this out . https://github.com/chadlupkes/IPFS-Sats
Or we can do what China is doing which is building AI underwater databases with cloud storage.
Oh we kinda are.
That's how I see blossom. It's filecoin, without the shitcoin. The pear stack is also interesting. I just set up Pear Pass this morning though. It seems like we could use this p2p protocol to achieve simmilar goals. I'm not sure how yet, but it's fun to think about. 😂
Blossom is ossom but it doesnt have a Bring Your Own Storage solution yet.
"Blossom is ossom" 😂
Right, but here's how I see it
Technical users can run their own blossom servers.
They can also use blossom servers of others.
I see it as a redundancy service. The goal is to keep the integrity and availability of data. Confidentiality is harder to achieve with blossom, but we could encrypted sensitive information on it using strong crypto like PGP. Here's an example of encrypted data on a blossom server.
I haven't thought through all the details. It's limited in size, but I think this could be useful for some sort of dead man's switch.
We can encrypt with nostr nsecs themselves, but setting up your own blossom servers requires a static public IP and/or a VPS I want a user to be able to do it with a hard disk they buy off the retail store, otherwise we'd rely on cloud prviders and be slaves to their pricing.
loom-protocol?
The first step would be to create a protocol that takes the idea of bitswap from Protocol Labs, and makes the exchange sat for kb instead of kb for kb. Filecoin just created silos with a high barrier to entry, while IPFS is supposed to work p2p. What's missing is the economic incentive for the Distributed Hash Tables to gather and reveal the file storage locations quickly, and stop losing data from garbage cleanup that wipes away 70% of all content within a week.
How does a global sat/kb get set? Shouldn't market dynamics be allowed to play out like a bidding system?
Yes, price discovery needs to happen naturally. But in order for price discovery to happen, there first needs to be liquidity. 1 sat for 1 kb is just a test case for illustration of the concept, not a locked market price.
Im thinking of doing an experiment where i rent out a raspberry pi worth of server space on shopstr.store via yggdrasil, could even provide a sock5 proxy with limited bandwidth for package installation and further hosting and stuff 🤔
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Didn’t start9 have an idea like this for encrypted file storage nostr:nprofile1qqs9df4h2deu3aae83fmet5xmrlm4w5l9gdnsy3q2n7dklem7ezmwfcpg3mhxw309umxcetgdpukgumjw35xzemdd9envat4xe682cmwv3m85aehvd6kyur3dd58v7re0ymk5mmfda3ngdtdddehydr9v9jzummwd9hkutcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcxlkr9y nostr:nprofile1qqsfrlp5f954nw7rgnx6fm4mhwkdcjhlz8f7rn8387z8qf4cx20xwegpgdmhxw309ahkjenkvgmh5mtjvg6hyut0dpjh56ej0q6hgdmzdd5nw7rrwp5xj6r9w3jkz6ncdc6h2atvw3ukx7rwv9h8v7pnv9jzummwd9hkuqguwaehxw309ahx7um5wghx6at5d9h8jampd3kx2apwvdhk6pf2jdr and you could pay in bitcoin to use extra space on other peoples embassies?