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beambot on Feb 15, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Opening the Filecoin Project Repos

If you are the only surviving node with the data, then it's called extortion or holding the data hostage.

wmf on Feb 15, 2019 [–]

Preventing that kind of problem is basically the point of Filecoin and similar systems.

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