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How Does Storage in Web 3 Work and Why It Is Important? - David Choi, Protocol Labs, Ep. 235

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The Problem With Centralized Storage Providers

With Filecoin, you're still renting out someone else's hard drive just like you'd be with a centralized storage provider. But at the same time, Filecoin's distributed network of physical storage providers. So resiliency ends up being higher. And under the hood, centralized storage providers do have a lot of points of failure. You know, if you just go through Twitter's history, for instance, lots of incidents where an entire region of a cloud provider will go down and all of a sudden you can't use Slack anymore.

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