Thank you for making these. There are two things I don't understand. 1. Who pays for the metadata to be written into the blockchain so that it will be permanent? In the version you have so far, Metamask is asking you to sign but not charging you. 2. I understand that aleph nodes are pinning data to IPFS for free right now. This is because there are so few messages that it is incredibly cheap to store them. But once the network gets popular, how can an app developer like yourself either a. pay the aleph nodes to pin the content (perhaps to be recouped from the user somehow) or b. create an interface that allows the user to do this. So far, your interface only allows the user to sign messages authorizing a post to be made from his/her address. But there is no way to pay for the post through metamask. Regardless, these videos are awesome! Please continue making them if you have time.
Basically what's happening is that you can post to the Aleph data network for free, and they save snapshots of the network periodically on-chain. It's not trying to be a full-on L2 blockchain or anything, but it should allow people to audit the snapshots to see if they are valid in the future.
Thank you for making these. There are two things I don't understand. 1. Who pays for the metadata to be written into the blockchain so that it will be permanent? In the version you have so far, Metamask is asking you to sign but not charging you. 2. I understand that aleph nodes are pinning data to IPFS for free right now. This is because there are so few messages that it is incredibly cheap to store them. But once the network gets popular, how can an app developer like yourself either a. pay the aleph nodes to pin the content (perhaps to be recouped from the user somehow) or b. create an interface that allows the user to do this. So far, your interface only allows the user to sign messages authorizing a post to be made from his/her address. But there is no way to pay for the post through metamask. Regardless, these videos are awesome! Please continue making them if you have time.
Basically what's happening is that you can post to the Aleph data network for free, and they save snapshots of the network periodically on-chain. It's not trying to be a full-on L2 blockchain or anything, but it should allow people to audit the snapshots to see if they are valid in the future.
@@TechmakerTV Thanks for the explanation.
Where is the next episode man