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June 20, 2014, 05:17:36 PM
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Here's a recent white paper I found linked at Reddit: http://cs.umd.edu/~amiller/permacoin.pdf

Andrew Miller1
, Ari Juels2
, Elaine Shi1
, Bryan Parno3
and Jonathan Katz1
University of Maryland
Cornell Tech (Jacobs)
Microsoft Research
Even in the event that an attacker gains more than 50% of the network's computational power, only transactions sent by the attacker could be reversed or double-spent. The network would not be destroyed.
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June 20, 2014, 10:24:48 PM
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http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=217984

We propose a modification to Bitcoin that repurposes its mining resources to achieve a more broadly useful goal: distributed storage of archival data. We call our new scheme Permacoin. Unlike Bitcoin and its proposed alternatives, Permacoin requires clients to invest not just computational resources, but also storage. Our scheme involves an alternative scratch-off puzzle for Bitcoin based on Proofs-of-Retrievability (PORs). Successfully minting money with this SOP requires local, random access to a copy of a file. Given the competition among mining clients in Bitcoin, this modified SOP gives rise to highly decentralized file storage, thus reducing the overall waste of Bitcoin.
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June 20, 2014, 10:27:27 PM
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Is not it what Ethereum is trying to achieve ?

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June 20, 2014, 10:33:03 PM
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Is not it what Ethereum is trying to achieve ?

I believe it doesn't matter as there are so many avenues for Bitcoin that all are welcome. It's like dropping a toothpick over a forest out of an airplane and then parachuting down to find it Wink

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June 20, 2014, 11:39:00 PM
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Is not it what Ethereum is trying to achieve ?

I believe it doesn't matter as there are so many avenues for Bitcoin that all are welcome. It's like dropping a toothpick over a forest out of an airplane and then parachuting down to find it Wink

What helps some projects helps all of them. What hurts some of them makes the remaining and future projects stronger. Every database in the entire world is fertile ground.

I am in favor of more projects working towards an end goal but my question is why just Archival Storage and not regular storage.

Maidsafe also has a similar project in work with decentralized storage and enough capital to fund the idea from the Mastercoin and Bitcoin public offering.

That said having a redundancy is always a good idea.

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June 21, 2014, 06:01:54 AM
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lol...whitepaper refers to bitcoin's PoW algorithm as SOP (scratch-off-puzzle), no intrinsic value.  I find the premise of the whitepaper fascinating.  Looks like there is already some activity on GitHub related to this project.  The more the merrier in my opinion, yeah things like maidsafe and storj are awesome, but the more experiments out there running the sooner things will shake out and the superior products will be left standing.

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June 21, 2014, 04:26:08 PM
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Is not it what Ethereum is trying to achieve ?

I believe it doesn't matter as there are so many avenues for Bitcoin that all are welcome. It's like dropping a toothpick over a forest out of an airplane and then parachuting down to find it Wink

What helps some projects helps all of them. What hurts some of them makes the remaining and future projects stronger. Every database in the entire world is fertile ground.

I am in favor of more projects working towards an end goal but my question is why just Archival Storage and not regular storage.

Maidsafe also has a similar project in work with decentralized storage and enough capital to fund the idea from the Mastercoin and Bitcoin public offering.

That said having a redundancy is always a good idea.

I think having the info publicly available (such as public archives) was part of the plan.

Perhaps if you encrypt your stuff and make your "encrypted info" publicly available, then it could be added to the storage system.

Probably part of permacoin 2.0 but they need to start simple.

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September 04, 2014, 12:57:59 PM
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Given the size of the existing Bitcoin
network, we estimate that our scheme would recycle enough
resources to store at least a “Library of Congress” worth of
data (i.e., two hundred terabytes) in a globally distributed network

2  hundred terabytes? uhm...they are very pessimistic Cheesy

Anyways, i see no date Sad When will permacoin come true?
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