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		SilverRed on Sept 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A bit of math around Cloudflare's R2 pricing model It's not a currency but a utility. You can't buy and hold bandwidth like you can currency.

dannyw on Sept 30, 2021 [–]

Not directly, but Filecoin is launching a retrieval market where you'll indeed be able to buy, hod, and sell bandwidth like a currency; just like you can for storage today.

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