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Do We Really Need 25 Copies of our data,or Do We Need Walrus? Kindly post your comment also in chat box...

Most of the traditional decentralized storage networks choose the easy safety path of full replication. Filecoin and Arweave style systems store complete copies of a file on many nodes, so if one node goes offline, another still has the whole blob. It’s simple so it makes migration easy.

For instance, assuming a classic 1/3 static adversary model and an infinite pool of candidate storage nodes, achieving “twelve nines” of

security – meaning a probability of less than 10−12 of losing access to a file – requires storing more than 25 copies on the network3 and this results in a 25x storage overhead. A further challenge arises

from Sybil attacks, where one actor pretends to be many “different” storage nodes and fakes diversity.

Walrus is interesting because it does not bet on “more copies.” It bets on smart redundancy: splitting data into pieces with coding, so the network can recover files without storing full duplicates everywhere. walrus working style is simple replication can buy you comfort but Walrus tries to buy durability at scale.