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Cake day: May 30th, 2026

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  • That was one way I was thinking to handle this. As I don’t have friends, I had to think of some other ones.

    One way to confirm participation is to require participants to regularly calculate and send to other hosts hashes of stored chunks + random strings that were generated by the chunk owner in advance and were unknown to the peer before a given point in time. They would confirm to the network they still have the file daily, if they won’t verify it for 14 days other peers would be liberated from an obligation to store files they uploaded.