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		sillysaurus3 on May 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gitchain: Decentralized P2P Git Repos aka "Git mee... What prevents someone from using this to store backups of their harddrives, photos, etc, and consuming as much space as possible?

wmf on May 17, 2014 [–]

It needs an incentive model, like for every GB of space you provide you get a GB of space from peers.

yrashk on May 17, 2014 | [–]

There are proof of storage techniques. I already listed some references in the paper I am working on (https://github.com/gitchain/gitchain/blob/master/gitchain.te...)

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