You do remark that we gain non-monetary benefit from running nodes, like better privacy for our own usage.
ok so maybe bitcoin node operators are no so selfless as we thought. but i want to ram my data into their hard drive just the same if the protocol allows it. that way they can help me store data that is important to ME.
So much for the topic of selfishness / selflessness..
But you do realize that if you leech off a system in a non-intended, harmful way, especially if done coordinated with a large number of people, you can destroy said system?
Likewise, The Internet Archive folks and donators gain something non-monetary as well: archiving of webpages and other important data.
who decides what is "important" or not though? what if i say my data is important and they don't agree? does that mean they can drop it?
Making negative assumptions like that without prior web search looks pretty silly to anyone who does know something about the topic.
For reference:
I find it crazy that people go from 'Bitcoin prevents censorship of monetary transactions' / 'Bitcoin allows anyone to send anyone money' basically to 'Bitcoin is the next cloud storage provider because of a bug in the code because freedom'.
yes that is quite a leap of logic i don't understand how someone can make that type of leap of logic. its obviously flawed.
i dont understand why someone would buy stuff like this:
https://ordswap.io/collections/tradifilinesit's just junk right?
I agree! Their only goal is trying to sell JPEGs. I've been saying it all along.
You are mixing up 'misusing the Bitcoin blockchain because it is technically possible' and 'censorship of monetary transactions'. We want Bitcoin to be censorship-free in the sense that anyone can send any amount of BTC to anyone on the world at any time. Filling the mempool and the blockchain with JPEGs though, inhibits this goal and should be regarded as an attack. Attacking Bitcoin is pretty surely not in line with 'the philosophy Bitcoin was built on'.
"Misusing", but those who use Ordinals could argue that it's a feature made possible through Taproot.
It was made possible through Taproot, but it wasn't the intended use case for it. It's like a Windows update that contains an exploitable bug in the code. Should we argue that writing a computer virus that leverages this bug is not 'misusing' the OS, because it was the update that made that exploit possible?
It seems odd to me that the only real argument repeated over and over again here is that 'Bitcoin could be used as censorship-resistant forever storage of data', meanwhile NFT people don't really care about any of that and are just out to sell JPEGs for profit?
You are basically defending 'JPEGs' with 'cloud backup storage'.
It's not "could be used", it's actually being used. Tromp made a good post,
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.61860021You are making a definitive statement. Anything to back it up? Tromp's post doesn't back it up, either. I'm asking whether anyone is using Ordinals as 'cloud backup storage' for important files or whether it's just used to sell worthless JPEGs to misguided people (i.e. scamming them)? I'm pretty sure that it is way too expensive to realistically upload lots of important files for archival storage.
Since it is extremely unlikely that your local NAS and the cloud storage provider die at the same exact moment, your data will be secure enough with double or triple redundancy.
Here's a problem though: You don't know where your hard drive dies, in comparison with a cloud service, where they will simply send you a message.
You're talking about partial corruption of the disk? Of course I am oversimplifying because this is not a thread about data backups. Once your drive gets to a certain age (especially SSDs with limited R/W cycles per cell), you want to replace it. But then again, you also want local redundancy through RAID and preferably multiple off-site backups, too.
If something is so valuable that you think you need to put it on the blockchain, it's probably worth it just throwing a ton of tried & tested, 'normal' backup methods at it, like every company on the world is doing (especially the top 500 and such).