Dont wanna be annoying, but I found this comment under the one of Factom videos.
"Here's another easier way to secure the integrity of 29,000 books.
Create a torrent for each book, or a torrent that contains all the books, keep the .torrent, you'll have SHA1 hashes for each torrent, and you'll have the file pieces hashed as well. A .torrent file is a Factum used to validate the integrity of files transfered.
Then grab the .torrent hash and put it into a Bitcoin transaction.
You can create torrents of just about any data source, and add those torrent infohashes to the Bitcoin blockchain.
I still don't see why Factum is needed."
Can someone elaborate? Im not techie, but I guess simple solutions always win.
Bittorrent does everything Factom does
and allows for efficient filesharing, and is much more distributed/resilient
I regularly backup archives of ebooks and music by creating torrents of them and using that to distribute data + hashes across lots of storage
Factom is not supposed to archive actual files or data but only to keep records. We recommend reading the whitepaper.
Torrents are great for sharing files and music, etc. Factom is not a storage solution.
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