[DemocracyFTW]

[Q] Do we really want to be perceived as book burners?

[A] Tbh I don’t care too much what a bunch of normies that probably didn’t even know the book existed think. The book would still exist but digitized and in the blockchain.

[Q] Why not just use Arweave, IPFS, and a variety of other long-term digital preservation strategies? All of them are less expensive and resource-intensive.

IPFS is not permanent. If it stops being hosted it disappears. Arweave cannot compare to something like Ethereum which is a truly decentralized network. But upmost I would say that cost of uploading is a feat, not a problem. It would make our collection even more special.

These are a bunch of seriously sociopathic, inconsiderate and reckless thugs. I'm happy to see them fleecing each other.

[RF_Savage]

I wonder how crunchy the jpeg quality needs to be for this to be viable.

A crude back of the envelope calculation after some googling would put the storage price on Ethereum at around 3.5eth per mb.

So that would be around 10k€ per mb. Certainly doable if they like burning money, but likely not at archival quality.

[qorrect]

"Crunchy jpeg" reminded me of this scene https://youtu.be/EklmUZF6lm0?t=220

[charcircuit]

>If it stops being hosted it disappears

The same thing applies to blockchains. If no one is hosting it, you can't download it.

[tluyben2]

Sure but ipfs hosting etc rely on one or a few hosts; if you use a blockchain like btc, at least it is vast and that means someone will be hosting at least until btc reaches $0.