Extremely exciting: People-Powered Bandwidth is now live on STORE.

It's effectively a decentralized CDN where once the bandwidth budget for a permanently stored asset expires, the global community can top it up.

Co-creator @ $STORE -- web3 infrastructure, @chrisamccoy on the bird app, optimist

...It's a very elegant solution to an extremely challenging problem: who pays for bandwidth for a workload when it's not a centralized entity (YouTube) selling ads to pay for the compute.

It'll work for LLMs too. We're on the cusp of getting GPUs into STORE protocol now.

...We're introducing an Endowment as well that raises the starting floor for bandwidth. And the issuer of a permanently stored asset can buy more bandwidth at issuance (thus incurring higher permanent storage costs).