

July 06 2021
Arweave – Store Data Forever With A New Type Of Storage That Backs Data With Perpetual Endowments
About the episode
Kevin chats with Sam Williams, Founder of Arweave. Arweave is a new type of storage that backs data with sustainable and perpetual endowments, allowing users and developers to truly store data forever – for the very first time.
About our guest
Links from the episode
Wayback Machine | Internet Archive
Bitcoin’s Price History | Investopedia
Bitcoin Open Source Implementation of P2P Currency | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
Hong Kong Protests | Human Rights Watch
Hong Kong’s Apple Daily to Live on in Blockchain, Free of Censors | Reuters
What is Arweave? Explain Like I’m Five by The Arweave Project | Medium
Computational Complexity Theory | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Google’s 4,000-Word Privacy Policy Is a Secret History of the Internet | The New York Times
Profit-Sharing Plan | Investopedia
Introducing SmartWeave: Building Smart Contracts with Arweave by The Arweave Project | Medium
Beeple Launches NFT Auction Platform Wenew | Fast Company
What’s the Big Idea Behind Ethereum’s World Computer? | CoinDesk
Build Crypto Apps That Scale | Solana
Bitcoin and the Rise of the Cypherpunks | CoinDesk
PayPal Will Let You Buy with Bitcoin. But Why Would You? | Bloomberg
Spock on Wanting vs. Having | Star Trek
China Bans Financial, Payment Institutions from Cryptocurrency Business | Reuters
China Unlikely to Wield US Bond Weapon as Tensions Stay High | Reuters
Show notes
How does Arweave incentivize participation in its network and guard against inflation?[09:22]
What factors into the calculation of future storage costs?[11:55]
How is redundancy handled?[12:56]
How fast are searches right now?[24:55]
What current use cases for Arweave does Sam find surprising or especially rewarding?[29:41]
How a profit-sharing model might be built by a DAO on Arweave.[37:07]
A pleasant surprise for Sam: Beeple’s new NFT platform is built on Arweave.[41:35]
Has anyone tried to attack Arweave’s network with any success?[49:28]
Could Tor be used on top of Arweave?[51:01]
Could (or should) someone inside China host data on Arweave?[51:13]
Arweave-based projects that Sam finds exciting at the moment.[52:41]
What projects in the overall crypto world have captured Sam’s attention lately?[54:45]
How anyone interested can get involved in Arweave today, and Parting thoughts.[01:00:53]
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