Arweave
Decentralized permanent storage network
Episodes
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#3781: Peer-to-Peer Backup: Brilliant or Overcomplicated?Can a blockchain-inspired network replace your backup drive? We explore the promise and hidden pitfalls. -
#1983: Why Your Digital Photos Are Slowly DisappearingPhysical paper from the 1700s is more durable than a Word doc from 1994. Here's why digital data is fragile and how archivists fight bit rot. -
#1925: The Plumbing That Keeps Science From CollapsingHalf of all links in academic papers are dead. Here’s the plumbing that keeps knowledge from vanishing. -
#1910: Our Podcast Is Now a Permanent Research ArtifactWhy we're uploading every episode to CERN's Zenodo archive, giving our AI experiments a permanent DOI and a life beyond streaming platforms. -
#849: From URLs to Content Hashes: The Real Web 3.0 ShiftExplore the shift from location to content-addressing as we dive into the real-world state of Web 3.0 and distributed systems in 2026. -
#742: The Dark Archive: Saving Extremism for HistoryWhen mainstream sites delete toxic content, how do researchers save it? Explore the "memory hole" of digital hate speech and dark archives. -
#741: The Fragile Web: Who Decides What We Remember?Explore how the Internet Archive saves the web, the legal battles threatening its future, and the rise of decentralized storage like Arweave. -
#714: The Billion-Year Backup: Escaping the Digital Dark AgeWill our digital legacy survive for billions of years? Explore the tech fighting the "Digital Dark Age," from lunar libraries to quartz glass. -
#683: Can Smartphones Save the Grid?Herman and Corn explore the technical and legal hurdles of replacing massive data centers with a global peer-to-peer network of consumer devices. -
#674: Data Forever: From Blockchains to Lunar VaultsWorried about the Digital Dark Age? Herman and Corn explore how to keep your data safe on the Moon, under mountains, and in the blockweave. -
#237: Beyond the 404: Building a Permanent Web with IPFSTired of 404 errors? Explore how IPFS and content addressing are solving the internet's link rot problem to preserve digital history.