Internet Archive now stores U.S. government web archives on Filecoin for better resilience during presidential transitions.
Filecoin’s decentralized network helps safeguard public data from loss, censorship, or server failure.
Something interesting happened ahead of the change of administration in the United States. The Internet Archive, an institution we usually know through the Wayback Machine, began storing US government web archives into the Filecoin network.
Not just any data, this is part of the End of Term Web Archive project which includes more than 500 terabytes and 100 million pages of .gov and .mil sites. This step is not only about data backup, but also answers an old challenge: how to keep public data alive even though the administration changes?
If usually big data is stored in traditional server centers, Filecoin offers a different approach: data is spread across a decentralized storage network. Imagine, as if the important pages were stored in thousands of places
