Expand In layman's terms, the family genealogy is recited aloud, with each person memorizing it in their mind. The brain becomes a collection of nodes, and when people meet, they compare the records to determine kinship, using 51% accuracy as the standard. It's said this practice existed in the pre-Qin and Spring and Autumn periods. This is actually the earliest form of distributed storage thinking, miraculously passed down from paper genealogies to mental genealogies by the southwestern Yi people. This is still amazing—rote memorization of the genealogy. Blockchain information technology is, in essence, a form of rudimentary mathematics.

Expand The latest episode of @ValidatedPod is now available! This episode features our most requested guest: Kevin Bowers from @jump_ 🦬 In this episode, Kevin returns to explain how Jump has expanded from trading to core infrastructure, focusing on what he calls the "big turnaround": the real technological bottleneck isn't computation, but data and I/O. @Austin_Federa and Kevin will also discuss: + Jump's new storage network, Shelby + How @jump_firedancer helps @Solana scale + Why FPGAs are key to "getting close to the network edge" Watch now on X ↓

Expand 🧵Bridging OrbitDB and Storacha In short: A new bridge has been established between OrbitDB and Storacha, connecting the decentralized database to Filecoin-based hot storage. It allows developers to back up and restore OrbitDB data with just a few lines of code. 1/ Problems Decentralized databases like OrbitDB rely on peer-to-peer networks, but their data often lacks reliable backups. Data continuity can be disrupted when peer nodes go offline. Developers need a secure and permanent way to store OrbitDB databases. 2/ Bridging The OrbitDB-Storacha bridge connects OrbitDB to Filecoin-based Storacha storage. It transfers OrbitDB blocks, logs, manifests, and identity information to Storacha for secure storage and easy recovery via a simple API. 3/ How it Works The bridge extracts OrbitDB database blocks and uploads them as content-addressed files to Storacha. Each block is assigned a CID, which helps rebuild the database later through an automated reorganization process. 4/ Storage Advantages Storacha, as a fast edge layer for Filecoin, provides low latency, redundancy, and CID-based verification. Developers can gain a storage experience similar to modern cloud systems, but with decentralized control. 5/ Recovery Process During the recovery process, the bridge converts the Filecoin/IPFS CID to OrbitDB format and reactivates the entire database. Identity and access control remain unchanged, ensuring the authenticity and ownership of the database. 6/ Future Roadmap Upcoming updates plan to embed Storacha directly into OrbitDB as a CustomStore for automatic backups. The team is also exploring UCAN delegation for secure, user-controlled authentication. Read the full article:

Expand 2Z, developed by @doublezero Now traded on the Gemini platform 🎉 Deposits and withdrawals are now available ✅ Buy, sell, and store now:

Expand WLD is issued by @worldcoin Now traded on the Gemini platform 🎉 Deposits and withdrawals are now available ✅ Buy, sell, and store now:

Expand This is part of Dash's decentralized data storage solution.

Expand Let's get started, have some fun, and play! This isn't just about memes; it has applications—a blockchain application for storing family trees, and later, an open family tree system using CRES distributed storage. A global first!

Expand 🧵When Centralized Cloud Services Collapse In short: Azure went down. AWS had also gone down before. Both outages exposed the vulnerability of centralized cloud infrastructure. Filecoin takes a completely different approach, distributing data globally and verifying data integrity through cryptographic proofs. 1/ Outage Events In late October, both Azure and AWS went down. Banks, airports, and government websites were paralyzed for hours due to configuration and DNS errors. The failure in a few regions triggered a global chain reaction. The cause was not an attack, but dependency. 2/ Root Cause The internet operates on a few control planes. Once one fails, a ripple effect occurs. Efficiency comes at the cost of resilience. Each outage demonstrates that centralization is not stable, but rather a concentration of risk. 3/ Alternatives Filecoin distributes data to thousands of independent storage providers across different continents. Each provider must prove that its data is always stored and intact through on-chain proof-of-replication and proof-of-spacetime. 4/ How to Resist Failures In Filecoin, there are no zone-defined uptimes. Even if one provider goes offline, other providers will continue to hold the data. The absence of a master switch or a single DNS route would cause the network to crash. Reliability stems from distributed systems, not control.

Expand Great news! @solana's read layer has received a major upgrade: the grand launch of Fumarole! Fumarole is a streaming service designed for data integrity. It pauses data streaming when the connection is lost and resumes transmission after you issue a command. You'll never miss an update due to unstable gRPC connections again. Fumarole stores data from the last 23 hours; if you start using it today, you can access yesterday's data, or even data from across the entire network! Read our blog post; the link is in the tweet below!

Expand Satoshi Nakamoto once said that even text messages shouldn't be stored on the blockchain. Now, however, they've removed the filtering mechanism and are putting illegal images and videos on the blockchain.