By rewarding storage directly with the block reward, the space would quickly become available, and practically unlimited. You could set transaction fee at zero and provide unlimited free storage for everyone. Information would never be lost again.
It wouldn't matter if somebody spammed the network because the block reward would ensure that storage in excess of bandwidth is always available.
Personally, I was forced to participate in a coverup and destroy crucial information, and I had no way to preserve it against destruction. People like whistleblowers and leakers need ways to publish things permanently.
I don't know of most of the altchains. So far I've found:
- bsv, which costs 250-500 satoshi per kb
- datacoin, old, designed for storage, also costs
- siacoin, costs and deletes old files
- burstcoin, mines with disk space but doesn't store the chain on the disk space used to mine
Does anyone know of any others? Is there anyone else who _likes_ this idea? Would anybody be interested in making a quick hack to get something running with me?