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by s_kilk 3526 days ago
Notably, no-one seeds torrents from their mobile connections. The cost would be prohibitive, without even getting into the issue of storage.
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The idea is that companies or people backing the content could easily provision more nodes to meet the demand. To create an IPFS "host", its super simple:

ipfs pin myhash

cost is prohibitive today, not necessarily tomorrow or work only when you are using wifi . storage can be capped.