{"id":538,"date":"2026-02-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kriptoblog.hu\/?p=538"},"modified":"2026-03-02T14:13:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:13:59","slug":"decentralizalt-tarolas-filecoin-arweave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kriptoblog.hu\/en\/decentralizalt-tarolas-filecoin-arweave\/","title":{"rendered":"Decentralized Storage: Filecoin, Arweave, and the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Decentralized Storage: The Future of Our Data<\/h2>\n<p>The vast majority of internet data is stored by <strong>3 companies<\/strong> : Amazon (AWS), Google (GCP), and Microsoft (Azure). This is a massive centralization risk. What happens if one of them goes down? If they censor? If they raise prices? <strong>Decentralized storage<\/strong> provides the answer.<\/p>\n<h2>The Problem with Centralized Storage<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Single points of failure:<\/strong> In 2023, an AWS outage paralyzed half the internet for hours<\/li>\n<li><strong>Censorship:<\/strong> Cloud providers can remove anything \u2013 WikiLeaks, Parler, and other cases<\/li>\n<li><strong>Data trading:<\/strong> Your data is the provider's business asset<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rising prices:<\/strong> Cloud storage prices decline less than they should due to oligopoly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Main Projects<\/h2>\n<h3>Filecoin (FIL)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Developed by Protocol Labs, the incentive layer for <strong>IPFS<\/strong> (InterPlanetary File System)<\/li>\n<li><strong>20+ exabytes<\/strong> of available capacity on the network<\/li>\n<li>Storage providers receive FIL tokens for storage<\/li>\n<li>Users pay with FIL for storage<\/li>\n<li>Use cases: NFT metadata, scientific data, archives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Arweave (AR)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Unique approach: <strong>one-time payment, permanent storage<\/strong> (permaweb)<\/li>\n<li>The \"blockweave\" structure guarantees permanent data availability<\/li>\n<li><strong>AO Computer:<\/strong> Computing layer built on Arweave \u2013 decentralized computing on permanent data<\/li>\n<li>Use cases: website archiving, smart contract source code, permanent publications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Storj<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Cloud-compatible decentralized storage \u2013 <strong>S3-compatible API<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The simplest migration from centralized cloud<\/li>\n<li>End-to-end encryption by default<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Sia<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>One of the oldest decentralized storage projects (2015)<\/li>\n<li>Simple and efficient proof-of-storage mechanism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How Does It Work Technically?<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>File splitting:<\/strong> The file is split into smaller pieces (shards)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Encryption:<\/strong> Every piece is encrypted \u2013 the storage provider can't see the content<\/li>\n<li><strong>Redundancy:<\/strong> Every piece is stored in multiple locations (erasure coding)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution:<\/strong> The pieces go to different storage providers worldwide<\/li>\n<li><strong>Retrieval:<\/strong> The file can be reassembled from the pieces at any time<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Advantages and Disadvantages<\/h2>\n<h3>Advantages<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Censorship resistance:<\/strong> There's no single point where data can be deleted<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cost efficiency:<\/strong> Filecoin and Storj prices are competitive with AWS<\/li>\n<li><strong>Data sovereignty:<\/strong> Your data is encrypted, only you can access it<\/li>\n<li><strong>Redundancy:<\/strong> No single point of failure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Disadvantages<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Speed:<\/strong> Download speeds are generally lower than centralized solutions<\/li>\n<li><strong>User experience:<\/strong> Usage is more complex for the average user<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reliability:<\/strong> Storage providers can come and go (though redundancy handles this)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Use Cases in 2026<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NFT and digital art:<\/strong> Permanent storage of NFT metadata and images (Arweave is popular for this)<\/li>\n<li><strong>DApp hosting:<\/strong> Storage of decentralized application frontends<\/li>\n<li><strong>Archive:<\/strong> Censorship-resistant preservation of important documents and scientific data<\/li>\n<li><strong>Enterprise backup:<\/strong> Corporate data backup on decentralized infrastructure<\/li>\n<li><strong>AI training data:<\/strong> Decentralized storage and monetization of massive datasets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>Decentralized storage won't replace AWS tomorrow \u2013 but it offers an <strong>important alternative<\/strong> for those who value data sovereignty, censorship resistance, and decentralization.<\/p>\n<p><em>Your data is the most valuable \"treasure\" of the digital age. The question is who guards it: a profit-driven company or a community-maintained, censorship-resistant network.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u26a0\ufe0f Legal disclaimer:<\/strong> This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. All investment decisions are made at your own risk.<\/p>\n<p><!-- IMAGE_PROMPT: Family Guy cartoon style illustration of Peter Griffin's family photos being stored in the \"cloud\" which is literally a giant server building owned by an evil-looking corporation, while Brian demonstrates an alternative: breaking the photos into puzzle pieces, encrypting them, and distributing them to friendly neighborhood houses all over Quahog, each house storing a small encrypted piece, a Filecoin logo on a delivery truck distributing the pieces --><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decentraliz\u00e1lt t\u00e1rol\u00e1s: adataink j\u00f6v\u0151je Az internet adatainak t\u00falnyom\u00f3 t\u00f6bbs\u00e9g\u00e9t 3 c\u00e9g t\u00e1rolja: Amazon (AWS), Google (GCP) \u00e9s Microsoft (Azure). Ez hatalmas centraliz\u00e1ci\u00f3s kock\u00e1zat. Mi t\u00f6rt\u00e9nik, ha egyik\u00fck le\u00e1ll? Ha cenz\u00far\u00e1z? Ha \u00e1rat emel? A decentraliz\u00e1lt t\u00e1rol\u00e1s erre ad v\u00e1laszt. A probl\u00e9ma a centraliz\u00e1lt t\u00e1rol\u00e1ssal Egyetlen hibapontok: 2023-ban egy AWS le\u00e1ll\u00e1s \u00f3r\u00e1kon \u00e1t b\u00e9n\u00edtotta az [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[140,176,141,138,164,136],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hirek","category-szoftver","tag-ai","tag-decentralizalt-tarolas","tag-jovokep","tag-nft","tag-smart-contract","tag-szabalyozas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kriptoblog.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kriptoblog.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kriptoblog.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kriptoblog.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kriptoblog.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kriptoblog.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/kriptoblog.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kriptoblog.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kriptoblog.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kriptoblog.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kriptoblog.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}