A friend sent me a screenshot: the document he uploaded to a centralized cloud drive was flagged as 'violating' by the algorithm.
I laughed and said, 'Congratulations, data freedom has graduated today.'
Centralized services always seem convenient.
But the cost of convenience is that you no longer own it.
This is also why I later started using @Walrus 🦭/acc .
$WAL is the energy system of Walrus.
It makes every node serve the network like a 'free worker'.
After your file is uploaded, it is no longer stored on some company's server.
Instead, it is cut into hundreds or thousands of encrypted fragments, distributed around the world.
The checksum and recovery of these fragments rely entirely on mathematics, not on an 'administrator'.
Official data shows that Walrus's average upload latency is only 350 milliseconds,
Storage costs are 30% lower than traditional cloud.
And the node dropout tolerance can reach 45%.
I tested uploading a 1GB video myself, taking less than 70 seconds.
Just ask if it smells good.
And the most incredible thing is the logic of privacy verification.
You can let others verify the existence of the file, but they cannot see the content.
This is called 'selectively verifiable privacy'.
In one sentence: you can prove you didn't lie, but no one knows what you said.
The future imagination space of Walrus is not just storage.
It is actually the 'privacy infrastructure'.
The upper layer can be encrypted social, anonymous finance, enterprise data sharing...
All applications that 'fear being seen' can use it as a backing.
We thought the cloud was a symbol of freedom,
In fact, the cloud is just someone else's computer.
And Walrus, let the cloud, finally become our computer.
