#walrus When I first realized that the 'delete key' was no longer reliable
One day, I deleted a project file at the company, and a week later, the client wanted a review,
I went to the cloud drive and found that it was completely gone.
At that moment, I realized that the 'delete key' was not being pressed by me, but rather someone else decided whether it could be restored.
Later, I came across @Walrus 🦭/acc , and it was then that I figured it out—
we are not lacking backups, but rather sovereignty.
The logic of Walrus is very counterintuitive:
it's not about 'where files are safest,' but rather 'making sure no one can control the files is safer.'
$WAL is the core of this system, it motivates nodes to maintain this 'non-deletable' consensus.
Walrus uses erasure coding technology to break files into several data fragments,
each fragment is then distributed to global nodes.
Even if 40% of the nodes go offline, the data can still be reassembled.
I saw the metrics in the official report, the data recovery rate is as high as 99.999%.
More importantly—after files are uploaded, they are automatically signed and encrypted,
even the node administrators cannot see the content.
This is not hiding, it's protection.
You might think that 'anti-censorship' is far removed from yourself,
but in reality, your cloud albums, chat records, and company data, each one could be 'seen' by someone.
What Walrus does is make such 'seeing' impossible.
Some people joke that this thing is too idealistic.
I actually think this is how Web3 should look.
Technology is not meant to accelerate advertising pushes,
it's to allow people to freely save what they want to keep.
I started tossing my own photos, the code I've written, and even backup notes into Walrus.
The cost is lower than I imagined, just a few dollars a year.
I no longer have to worry about a day when the cloud service suddenly stops.
We all deserve a 'storage world' where we don't have to watch our backs.
And Walrus is the key to that door.