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		A4ET8a8uTh0 on May 1, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SSD makers start warning that mining products like... I will admit that I do not get this coin. At all. Now, if someone came up with a way to store valuable data on everybody elses hdds and have them distributed this way; basically storing secrets via coin.. I could kinda get the reason for all this insanity.

stadium on May 2, 2021 [–]

That's a good idea, like a torrent but renting out unused capacity that's agnostic of the content. Maybe like a hyper-distributed S3.

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