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by jazzyjackson 1442 days ago
I'm not sure what to make of the monero mention, is it a requirement that you can pay anonymously? or do you have a fund that is able wire money? If you're avoiding the eye of China I suppose it's the former.

I believe there's services to "pin" content to the IPFS network, but I'd be surprised if there aren't torrent seedboxes you can pay for with crypto, but I'm afraid I'm short on specifics. Would the idea be, to keep the files available, there would be a wallet that anyone can pay into to pay for hosting ? It's what I assumed we would get with all these blockchain projects but I haven't really seen it yet, there's filecoin and arweave but I don't know if that they are trustworthy for the long haul what with the market crashing

EDIT: After reading some blogs on FileCoin it seems like they fit the bill, and I think my notion of "anyone can fund the maintainance of this specific dataset" is known as a DataDAO and maybe doesn't exist yet?

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Monero would allow donations to be anonymous, so even if all things go south, it should be only my payment to VPS/hosting that would be leaked.

I want to enforce this by only accepting monero, having privacy by default, at the cost of not getting a lot of donations.

Torrent seedboxes might also be useful, as they prioritize bandwidth and (maybe?) disk space. I'm not sure if they'd be more or less secure than the typical VPS hosting, though, and I'd default to pessimism.