Why don't more people use decentralized storage if it's so much cheaper?

[Anonymous No.16889200]

Also why is it cheaper? Shouldn't Dropbox/Google/Mega have an economies of scale?

[Anonymous No.16889447]

>>16889200
Because its not actually cheaper. Who the fuck is going to store 100gigs of data for you for 3 cents annually?

[Anonymous No.16889487]

>>16889447
AWS Glacier will do it for 48 cents but good luck getting it back in under 72 hours.

[Anonymous No.16889488]

>>16889447
https://diskprices.com/

cheapest seems to be $15/tb

It would take the person 50 years to pay off the drive lol.

[Anonymous No.16889507]

>>16889447
So how do these guys turn a profit? Is it a lost leader?

[Anonymous No.16889508]

After thinking about this some more, it must run on the notion that people have "extra" storage they aren't using. They are sourcing a bunch of people who have like, 2tb drives on their PC, but only use half the space at the moment.

So the idea is, why not make something off the drive currently have I guess? That's the only possible way that it would work.

[Anonymous No.16889521]

>>16889507
I'm thinking it has to be this, no other way to explain it. But why would someone even bother setting up the software and everything just to earn like 30 cents a year off their extra space, very weird.
>>16889508

[Anonymous No.16889527]

>>16889507
They're probably stealing all your data. Not sure if that qualifies as a loss leader

[Anonymous No.16889537]

>>16889527
Or, it might just be completely run by people with botnets who are hijacking other peoples storage for profit...

[Anonymous No.16889592]

>>16889527
Hang on though it's completely anonymous, payment through erc20 not linked to your files

[Anonymous No.16889631]

>>16889200
Peer to peer storage I guess. Decentralised looks interesting

[Anonymous No.16889668]

>>16889631
Peer to peer doesnt magically make the data less though, it's still data, that is a size, and requires the same amount of space to store. And storage devices still cost the same per gb/tb... No getting around that.

[Anonymous No.16890055]

>>16889631
Yeah but average industry cost of 64gb or 1 OPQ token is 20 dollars. I assume they are predicting the basement price will drive demand and increase the token price so early adopters will still benefit

[Anonymous No.16890078]

Storage cost is not big part, bigger part is ample network availability when you need access.

[Anonymous No.16890122]

>>16889200
Its not cheaper (go actually try it, dont read the propaganda)

Its WAY slower

Niggers can just delete your data and bail if it becomes unprofitable

No reliable backup if said nigger isnt using a raid or whatever

I dont want to deal with bizzare memecoins to store data. Ill just pay with a credit card like a normal person.

[Anonymous No.16890152]

>>16889200
>trusting your data to a bunch of neckbeards running nodes coded by chinks over a business you can sue if your data leaks

[Anonymous No.16890454]

>>16889668
But this is using peoples unused data space so any kind of payment is better than the opportunity cost of zero...

[Anonymous No.16890477]

>>16890454
Leaving your machine idle 24/7 will cost you 100x more than 30 cents a year you get for your 1 TB of unused space.

[Anonymous No.16890482]

>>16889200
Wtf this shit is for free basically. I've been getting robbed by Google

[Anonymous No.16890582]

I wonder if a very high userbase website like twitter could do decentralized storage redundently on it's users machines with cookies lol.

[Anonymous No.16890643]

>>16890477
Most people leave on their PCs regardless plus the only way is up in terms of the payment amount to be fair haha