Are there any serious methods of decentralised storage? I’ve read about storing files in a blob/string inside a #nostr note itself, which puts the onus of work (storing and distributing) squarely on the relay. Another method that I think isn’t getting enough attention is the usage of Torrents.

I personally like bittorrent (especially v2), once we have a way to combine lightning with that to incentivize storage of certain files or chunks, that would be ideal. I was working on this protocol but realized it might be tricky

Really... What headway did you make on that endeavor? What was tricky about it? This is a topic that interests me greatly.

There is a similar project already, made by some Dutch students I believe, that has a “honoring” system (no crypto coin) to determine if you seeded enough to be allowed to download faster. This system was called Tribler.

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