Bittorrent had 15 years to develop a system where the gossip part can't be spammed/bused and where sharing data is fair, and nothing came up better than good old trackers.
My point is, the only system we know of where gossip works at scale for persistent data is bitcoin, and that is because you have to pay fees to gatekeepers who themselves have to pay in a verifiable scarce resource.
And it seems you are reinventing that by thinking in the direction of hashcash, where a proof of work entitles you to store your data.
The problem is, hash cash was already invented to solve the centralisation of email by countering spam, and it failed miserably, and will fail again every time, I bet.
Nuh
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2025-05-01 23:45:10
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