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I think that having an internal cryptocurrency, like bitcoin would improve the system. For example it would allow me to mine some coins by sharing my 2Tb HDD for 2 months and then have a place to backup my 100Gb of data for one or two years without worrying that my node will be down and my backed up data will be deleted from the network. What do you think?

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It seems to be a deliberate choice they made. See this page of their wiki: https://github.com/cryptosphere/cryptosphere/wiki/Philosophy.

Hmmm.. I don't understand much of what that says. It seems that the bartering system basically means, between participants: I will store some of your data and you will store some of my data. And I will provide bandwidth for your data and vice versa. Both nodes agree to this deal. That way, nodes establish long-term relationships exchanging storage and bandwidth. Is that correct?

But, is there a way to buy/sell storage or bandwidth, without bartering? Could there be an economic incentive to run large-scale nodes providing service for buying customers?

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