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s_henry_paulson on July 31, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: A global decentralized encrypted datastore with an...

Fantastic idea. What happens though if a peer sharing data goes offline? Does that person's data disappear as well?

Or can you build up enough "creds" to keep your data in the cloud for some time after your node disappears?

ewillbefull on July 31, 2012 [–]

Or can you build up enough "creds" to keep your data in the cloud for some time after your node disappears?

Bingo, from what I understand. More to the point, the data will persist as long as users continue to transfer it.

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