[robrorcroptrer]

How much does it cost to store the actual asset only within the actual blockchain, for the most popular chains?

[hobo_mark]

Did not do the math myself, but apparently:

https://twitter.com/dominic_w/status/1490349135249035264

"Cost of storing 1 phone photo (3.3MB) on the blockchain"

ICP 1.6 cents - Solana ~$2,500 - Ethereum ~$1M

[ramchip]

ICP looks pretty dodgy from some quick googling. The number might still be true, I have no idea...

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/pg3nuf/was_...

[Lapsa]

i see pee is actually good at something?

[tromp]

On the order of $1 per KB for Bitcoin IF it allowed transactions to embed arbitrary data, which it doesn't. Spreading bits of data over many transactions is MUCH more expensive.

[seba_dos1]

A fortune. Plus once it's on a public blockchain, everyone can copy it, so not sure what does "only" mean in your question.

[numpad0]

I've heard lots of NFTs are just links to links that starts with "https://s3.us-east-1". It makes some sense to make it any ways but not like that.

[ushakov]

nah, nowadays they use IPFS

[swiftcoder]

IPFS itself is often just a transient cache of S3 - someone has to host the content somewhere to "pin" it to the IPFS network, that somewhere is often S3.

[michaelt]

The ability to store actual assets on the immutable public blockchain probably isn't a very desirable feature, lest some joker uploads something illegal.