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by Spivak 1883 days ago
Yeah I'm kinda confused as to why he went through all the effort of setting up email addresses rather than throwing them in a folder and backing it up to as many off-site storage providers as needed to make him comfortable.

I get that sending an email might be easy but so is uploading to Dropbox or Nextcloud if it must be self-hosted. And you don't have any storage limits.

Plus having blockchain domain names does nothing for the storage. IPFS is great but he still have to keep seeding it or it will go offline eventually. He still needs backups!

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The author is female.
Well shit. Too late to fix it now.
There are projects where you can store things on the blockchain too. That's the point - it's all decentralised.