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A year ago I ended a post entitled The 120K BTC Heist : So in practice blockchains are decentralized ( not ), anonymous ( not and not ), ...

I added a "Recent Comments" widget to the sidebar of my blog. I should have done this a long time ago, sorry! The reason it is nee...

There is a groundswell of opinion, which I share, in favor of a "decentralized Web" that has continued after last year's ...

Cost vs. Kryder rate As I wrote last month in Patting Myself On The Back , I started working on economic models of long-term storage si...

As storage media technology gets closer and closer to the physical limits, progress on reducing the $/GB number slows down. Below the fold, ...

As I've always said, preserving the Web and other digital content for posterity is an economic problem . With an unlimited budget collec...

Its time for an update on the disk media market., based on reporting from The Register 's Chris Mellor here and here and here .