Zeronet: Can the ZeroNet creat a mechanism to encourage more and more pepole to spread the website content (share their disk) like bitcoin that encourage people to share their cpu?

[tangdou1]

idea

[HelloZeroNet]

The main problem proof-of-storage and proof-of-bw is really hard (impossible?) opposed to proof-of-cpuwork.

[MuxZeroNet]

proof-of-storage and proof-of-bw is really hard (impossible?)

FYI, Proof of Space is possible. PoS uses hard-to-pebble graphs to ensure the prover must dedicate a certain amount of storage. It is hard to implement though. See the SpaceMint paper and source code.

[HelloZeroNet]

FYI, Proof of Space is possible. PoS uses hard-to-pebble graphs to ensure the prover must dedicate a certain amount of storage.

Thanks for pointing out, but it sounds like it's not for any meaningful data and even it would be so the proof-of-bw solution is still required to make it comparable to pow.

[tangdou1]

@HelloZeroNet @MuxZeroNet Yes, it is hard to implement. But I think thak making a honor wall for those people who contribute to the ZeroNet is easy to implement. For example, when one's upload exceed 1GB, he or she would recieve a virtual medel. Just like the Steam, in which people would recive a virtual medal for his or her palying time. It just be a suggestion for encouraging people's distributing behaviors.

[HelloZeroNet]

The problem is (unlike steam) in ZeroNet there is no trusted parties, so: who would decide if someone uploaded 1GB or not?

[imachug]

@HelloZeroNet Run fileRules locally?

[mkg20001]

@HelloZeroNet You should maybe take a look at https://filecoin.io and https://filecoin.io/proof-of-replication.pdf

[HelloZeroNet]

@mkg20001 It's very abstract, missing lots of details, but we will see once it's launched.

[tangdou1]

Thanks for your comments. Hope to see this can be implemented.