Swarm Alpha Online Event - AMA with the Swarm team

Fri, Oct 2, 2020, 12:00 AM

Website: https://swarm.ethereum.org/ Apply for grants: https://swarmgrants.typeform.com/to/SbrJiiiL Q&A 1. Will Swarm be able to scale? Rinke: The answer is yes, otherwise we would not be doing this. All of this is meant to support massive use cases. 2. When will we see the actual incentivisation implemented in the Swarm client? Rinke: Incentives are planned in August on the roadmap 3. How much does it cost to store 1 KB, how the cost rises with size and what is the minimal persistence of files? Daniel: If you want to store it for longer it will be more expensive. We expect, but it is a mere speculation, that the price will be comparable to ordinarily used centralised solutions. How it will evolve depends on what price is put on censorship-resistant storage and how fierce the competition will be. In short, if what you’re storing is popular, it will cost you nothing. On the other extreme is information that you’ll never need, like your computer backup, and that will be the most expensive information. 4. How FDS connects to Swarm? Gregor: FDS is an independent initiative, which strives to become a self-sovereign data commons. It’s been collaborating with and supporting Swarm from the start. Fair data society presents the layer between the tech and social by facilitating dialogue around ethics and addressing shared problems of the ecosystem participants.. 5. Difference between Swarm, Storj, Filecoin etc.? They are in a certain way similar , but for example IPFS and Swarm have a very different architecture. Swarm Is a genuinely a network of nodes to which you can upload files even if you don’t host yourself. Swarm provides censorship resistance and this basically translates to anonymous browsing Most difficult thing to develop Didn’t first have a plan to include zero-knowledge but we will definitely integrate them, but this is still a few years down the road. We will include them in postage stamp and that will give us provable but anonymous file uploads.