Improvement in data storage with Arweave

The world is becoming a global village,meaning it has actually given in to the very fast and effective means of sourcing for information provided by the internet.Because of this concept of always having easy access to information on the internet whenever needed in this present age,a false idea that information can never be altered or lost has been placed in the minds of humans that they no longer consider the risks that follow.

For instance,what if one day,we all wake up and try looking for some information we needed urgently and find out it’s all gone in the blink of an eye,all the information and it’s glory.What do we do then?
This is a question that should be asked now as not having a system built for the purpose of permanent storage of information can actually make these circumstances very possible.
These lists of transactions are growing everyday as more people are now seeking cryptocurrency as an answer and the storage needed to house these transactions permanently so that no content can be lost has been a major problem faced by all well known blockchains today.The cost of accessing contents stored is very high and contents stored do not last on the storage.
Finally,a solution to these posing problems has been created called Arweave.

What is Arweave?

Arweave as presented is a scalable infrastructure which not only bridges the gap of the need for a low-cost data storage but also makes truly permanent data storage possible due to its novel proof of access concensus mechanism.With this mechanism in place,it has made it impossible for information like sensitive political reports and also article contents of media news organization to be censored for most of the public not to gain access to them.This censorship which has actually bred room for loss of information and several changes to information thus making it lose its originality is a problem which Arweave has been made to solve.

Arweave also has been designed to be used by developers in building applications that present information to and also get information from a network with a REST API which is present in the application helping it in listening to the network.
With such an infrastructure having so many benefits,it would be required for its vast performances,to have some things which makes it actually perform so brilliantly to solve the problems faced by well known blockchains today.This then brings up the question,
What is this infrastructure actually made of?
As the foundation of a house determines its durability, so also does Arweave need a great foundation to give it durability.This great infrastructure is built on the following technologies:blockshadow,proof of access,wildfire and blockweave.These technologies are what gives this infrastructure its incredible capabilities,possessing different functions of their own but all work together to make it function the way it does.
The blockweave deals with the verification of transactions in the blocks,the proof of access(PoA) generates successive blocks which can be then stored by miners to form a blockweave,wildfire solves the problem of data sharing in a decentralized network and lastly the block shadow deals with block distribution to every node in the network.
So when these functions act together,the Arweave is in working progress.

Are these all Arweave can do?
Apart from the above mentioned there are some other advantages Arweave can guarantee to its users and these are:
1.In building apps by having the following being built on the weave;the client-server architecture,severless architecture and the event based.
2.Being trustless and provable
3.Authencity of documents from an author
Conclusion
The provision of a permanent and low cost data storage as a contribution to the advancement of technology in the modern world has been made available by Arweave.A world where information gotten is guaranteed of its authenticity intact.A world truly befitting to be called a global world.

Meet the team behind Arweave

More details on Arweave

Website : https://arweave.org/
Lightpaper : https://arweave.org/files/arweave-lightpaper.pdf
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Github: https://github.com/ArweaveTeam/arweave
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