5.3Gb for $3.03 in gas is a major step forward and cant wait for the giant leap that’s upcoming 
ant file download --retries 20 537629deca52c848a322c7e4296c36a9c431c404aab84b1b7c8c63cc02a8a740 ubuntu-24.04-beta-desktop-amd64.iso #md5sum f1dc1eac7e6a53cf040cbdba2f5f65c3 5.3Gb cost $3.03
That’s $600 / forever TB
I think it would be great to have maintained charts of this and many other stats such as network size, earnings per node, uploads etc
Over time they will be an impressive demonstration of the network and the Autonomi team’s ability.
The “forever” is problematic and I start to believe now that the team, the foundation or whoever has started worrying about legal consequence, the promise of permanency should be asterisked by terms and conditions before people actually pay for storage.
No-one knows if the data is truly permanent, no-one of us little sponsors know whether the network will ever work on a self sustainable truly decentralized economy and no-one knows if the equilibrium of demand for storage/economical incentive/growth of the network is ever achieved.
Ah, the Songs for the Deaf. I keep singing those.
I agree it’s important to be clear that it means permanent for the life of the network, with no ongoing costs or subscriptions after uploading.
Permanent markers, e.g. Sharpies legitimately claim to be permanent compared with washable ink. Autonomi legitimately claims its storage to be permanent vs something that gets deleted without paying a subscription.
Sharpie ink can be removed, and Autonomi could fail, but that doesn’t make the claims misleading.
Saying that, MaidSafe haven’t yet declared the data on the network to be ‘permanent’. I wonder when that step will be taken?
Maybe the marketing should be along the lines of “Files are never deleted” Rather than files are permanent.
Cannot say data is never deleted since scratch pads do allow data to be deleted
i say its permanent and can explain the details in the small print
It’s data stored for a one time fee and without expiration date.
And it is a ‘forever storage fee’ (even better than just lifetime).
As @neo sais - maybe best to just go with the economic model and not with the promise of non existent of any error scenarios/glitches ever…
Thanks so much to the entire Autonomi team for all of your hard work! 
Our community and our team are the best in crypto! 
Below is an example of the resilience of the Autonomi network to global internet service disruptions, confirming that storing data forever has a solid foundation: