A lil thread ↓ In 2014 the largest online portfolio site f…
A lil thread ↓
In 2014 the largest online portfolio site for artists CGHUB shut down with absolutely no warning and deleted EVERYTHING. Countless portfolios spanning years just vanished.
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So ever since that day, whenever I post a bit of art or a screenshot or a top tier homegrown organic meme on sites that popped up after CGHUB like artstation or the twitter art circles, theres always this nagging feeling of "what if it just vanishes lol"
So I save everything in a personal archive.
But it just hit me...
I posted an image to twetch, went to chuck it in my usual archive, and was like wait, thats there - F O R E V E R - its stored on bsv till the end of the internet itself.
Hah, yep, I ended up doing it this way
https://twetch.app/t/0594ebfbe83c347e6a979c0db8bd778cbb43f807e0ae83aaa0fb10c21e2e08cb
Think of a site where your images/data/memories are GUARUNTEED to not just suddenly vanish, because all your data is yours and you can always access it no matter what, even to show your grandkids in 65 years.
There's some serious value in that.
It's not though. It can be pruned by miners and most likely will by most. Twetch will have business arrangements with certain miners to process their transactions and they will retain the data as part of that agreement. There's a lot of bad info around
So if Twetch goes out of business, those transactions no longer hold any value to any miner and nobody will retain it at that point
Hmm, I didn't think of pruning... But lets say twetch did disappear, those files the miners are storing dont immediately get deleted (especially not from all the miners) like in the case of CGHUB. Right? Assuming they are unencrypted and/or I have the key
And then as long as myself or the *new* twetch or whatever other platform is paying the miners to retain those files, they have no reason to prune them right? I'm a bit of a noob to all this, just trying to get my head around it all
It's a long read but worth it to understand the various ways data can be stored and how it can be pruned and lost. https://blog.bsv.sh/the-prunability-and-non-permanency-of-your-data-the-case-of-op_return/
Will give that a read, cheers for the info