Safenetwork sustainability concerns - Bandwidth has an ongoing cost however Safenetwork is a pay once, benefit forever model

You put them in the same bag, but just to clear any misunderstanding, they have opposite ideas about the cost of uploading and maintaining files in the safe network:

  • @anders wants these operations totally free,

  • whereas @foreverjoyful wants additional costs for the uploader (compared to what is currently planned by Maidsafe)

I share @foreverjoyful concerns about sustainability of pay once and store forever principle but I find @anders idea not viable in a decentralized network.

They necessarily need to be implemented at the network level and not at the app level:

  • Nobody will use @foreverjoyful’s app when they don’t pay any renting by uploading directly to the network

  • @anders’s app won’t be able to upload files because it won’t have the fund needed for this if users don’t pay anything.

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