Re: Storing the bitcointalk forum on a decentralized file system
I think there's the same challenge to solve than in my proposal: The "miners" would have to be rewarded in some way to incentive them to store the correct contents. But how can you be sure that they store the correct content, and not some randomly generated fake posts which would take them probably less time than to scrap the forum?
Maybe it would be possible to assign forum contents to be "mined" in a block to a hash, and if the contents don't match the hash, the block is invalid. Of course, posts can be updated, and are continually edited or removed, so there'd have to be a very scientific, precise way in which the hash is calculated. And whichever miner calculates the correct hash first receives the block reward.
I don't see any good reason why anyone would do this when there are free alternatives like IPFS.
Because there's no motivation/incentive for anyone to continually archive the forum, forever. We are currently reliant on the goodwill of TryNinja and LoyceV to properly archive forum posts.
Show me the programmer that estimates they could pull off a task like that, and 999 times out of 1000, I'll show you someone that doesn't really understand the problem.
I don't doubt it
