Ever curious about getting paid in a cryptocurrency for supporting web3 by hosting files? Can then get others to host your stuff via the money you make. Regarding hardware and software requirements: . Storj ( https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131307952 ): like the lowest barrier to entry. Negative: have to enable port forwarding via changing settings in the router directly ( https://storj.dev/node/get-started/port-forwarding ). After logging into the router and changing its configuration, your IP address will be accessible anywhere on the Internet (so have a firewall enabled). You'll be paid like <$10 per month (STORJ token which is an ERC-20 token), depending on things. STORJ token is Ethereum-based, so I guess you can use it for any Ethereum thing. Or you can only use it for Storj things, I'm not sure. This thread might answer that question: https://forum.storj.io/t/what-can-i-do-with-the-storj-tokens/2211 . Smutty.horse is/was an MLP-focused catbox.moe alternative. Subdomain y.smutty.horse used Storj DCS for a while in the past. Storj DCS is like the premium-hosting/storage version or section of Storj, so compared to non-DCS it's faster and has bigger pipes or other good things. . Arweave ( https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q129196013 ): medium-level barrier to entry. Unlike Storj, no port forwarding required, but will help in efficiency if enabled. Also unlike Storj, Arweave is focused in very persistent or permanent storage. Minimum 8 GB or more of memory required ( https://docs.arweave.org/developers/mining/mining-guide ) and need an SSD or NVMe drive. (I've heard that NVMe is faster than SSD drive.) Also need a mid or high-level CPU. Apparently they will move to HDD-based storage in the future. Can you use their AR token for anything and easily exchange it? IDK. . Filecoin ( FF: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131309034 ): highest barrier to entry. I posted about this IPFS-related thing in the past. Basically gotta have a supercomputer to mine it and earn its FIL token. Probably gotta enable port forwarding.
Some of the data in these decentralized storage network are or are related to archiving.
