Warrant Canary creator
   On May 20, 2017 9:34 PM, "grarpamp" <[1]grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:

     Rewards seem nice, yet not everyone who wants to play
     can pay, or the math overhead is crushing, or it becomes
     centralized. Definitely worth trying, especially if it fits some
     usage model.
     Another form is to just let the network use whatever
     CPU, RAM, DISK, NET that you're not currently
     using, or give it whatever limits you want. In short,
     set it and forget it. Let the network figure out how
     to best use your node to support the network.
     Maybe it's a strictly filesharing network,
     or a general purpose network.
     That's on the "Hey I just want to donate
     this because it's cool like Seti@Home, etc.

   Mojo's internal currency was based on the resources offered, shared or
   consumed. We even patented it (apparently unknown to MaidSafe; hell
   they never even heard about us :)

     Users actual use of the network would
     be through different apps... be it submitting
     infohashes, or compute jobs, etc.
     Does eliminating all the reward tracking overhead
     provide substantial resources back to support
     free use.

   Probably not.

     ie: Most people and their computer resources sit idle,
     probably more than enough to provide back whatever
     multimedia they want to consume.
     If true, all balances out, no need to bother track accounting
     with "pay to play" style system?
     I like "pay to play" as it offers at least some
     firm guarantee to the consumer offeror.
     But an accounting free system is more fun as in free beer :)
     Hybrids might work too.
     [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exabyte
     [3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte
     [4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yottabyte
     [5]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(data)
     100M users donating 10GiB slack space is about 0.93 EiB
     of non redundant storage, excluding overhead.
     Example, at 4x redundancy, that probably easily covers
     lossless versions of all movies (at least 1080p)
     and all audio (FLAC), all wikipedia, all OS and apps.
     Approaching mini-NSA scale... not a bad start.

References

   1. mailto:grarpamp@gmail.com
   2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exabyte
   3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte
   4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yottabyte
   5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(data)