Hi,
This project is very interesting. Just 3 questions.
1. Will burst be less desirable now there are coins that store useful data
2. Can burst be tweaked to store useful data
3. It seems to use a lot of BW? how much BW will storing 50TB of data require in 24 hours?
I was hoping to plug some external drives into the mining rigs to mine this whilst they are on.
1) Don't know.
2) Not currently.
3) It uses minuscule bandwidth to mine. A wireshark trace I took showed mining a 20TB plot for one round produced less than 5KB of network traffic. You could mine on a dial up link.
H.
I think storing "useful" data within the plots is something which requires drastical bandwidth usage.
In the past this discussion lasted over several pages in the original announce thread with these results if i remember correctly:
-plots may store user data after a redesign of the mining algorythm and coin design
-the miners would require much bandwidth to serve the files
-there was no consensus about how many copies of the data shall exist and how many should be assumed as secure if you want to access your files later
-there are other coins focusing to act as cloud storage provider
i think if you really want to only store data simply use mega and encrypt your stuff. this has for me the same reliance as a crypto coin archiving your files.