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#Arweave protocol/network leads the pack in permanent, decentralized, censorship-resistant data storage

Pay once, store forever (~200yrs)
Permanent storing & hosting for NFTs & Web3 apps

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Arweave use cases continued...

2. Data “provenance”
3. Authenticity (proof-of-existence)
4. Incentivized data storage

#Arweave’s Endowment Pool is geared towards long-term sustainability.
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https://www.arweave.org/yellow-paper.pdf
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Arweave use cases continued


6. Profit Sharing Communities (PSCs)

“open-source ‘companies’ that pay out an immediate dividend on profits.”

- Bootstraps dev activity

Generate income w/ Profit Sharing Tokens (PSTs)
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https://www.arweave.org/profit-sharing-communities
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#Arweave Disadvantages:

Users pre-pay for future storage costs, so the data must be available for long-term

Increased adoption = exponential growth of data (today it’s over 8.5 TB) Miner centralization is a real problem, but miners don’t need to store the entire “Weave”
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Arweave must incentivize miners to stay online because fewer data replications = less secure permanent data storage

Solution: “Proof-of-Access”
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Arweave’s PoW incentivizes miners to store “rare” data chunks as the network becomes too large for anybody to store a full node.

Their current pricing mechanism adjusts AR (their native token)/Mb cost during volatile price swings, w/o heavy reliance on external oracles
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#Arweave Exploit: “Sacrifice Mining”

Miners upload data without sharing, increasing the chances of a reward in the future.

- Good for the endowment, but not productive storage.
👉 https://arweave.news/arweave-miners-are-sacrificing-their-ar/
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Data storage on Arweave should remain affordable long-term

However, w/o an incentive for nodes to act as gateways, there’s no guarantee for timely data retrieval

Arweave’s solution = http://amplify.host  (a consensus protocol for an incentivized Permaweb gateway
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Amplify & Arweave source tweet: https://twitter.com/ArweaveTeam/status/1381601940757487620?s=20
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Future unknowns:

Arweave is a pioneer in a burgeoning field, so we really don’t know how all the moving parts and technologies will evolve.

Those unknowns pose a risk when considering the sustainability of Arweave’s long-term incentives.
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The Web 2.0 model is broken.

#StoreYourTruth forever.

Congratulations @ArweaveTeam on your success thus far!

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