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Century Scale Storage


If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?

If a cryptocurrency-backed decentralized storage solution is going to be viable in the long term for cultural and intellectual institutions and collectors—organizations and individuals that tend to have extremely sensitive budgetary practices—they have to find a way to limit and mitigate the effect of these shocks on their pricing. Blockchain-based implementations also run the risk of being intellectually dismissed or even politically targeted by those turned off by the speculative financial use of the technology and its tainted history of grift, fraud, rent-seeking, greed, and anti-statist techno-libertarian fantasies. Global thermonuclear war, asteroid impacts, caldera volcanoes, x-risks, Skynet, cultural revolutions, second comings, alien invasions, Malthusian crises, birthrate collapses, pandemics, solar flares, and Local Group supernovae.

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