Arweave

Over the weekend I saw a friend tweet a random hash in order to "secure his Arweave" account. Intrigued, I poked around the official ARWeave site and learned that it's a technology that "enables you to store documents and applications forever" thanks to a "collectively owned hard drive that never forgets."

If that smells suspiciously of blockchain, you're not wrong. ARWeave is built on top of a Blockweave is an alternate version of the traditional blockchain that is "a set of blocks that contain data, linking to multiple previous blocks from the network."

From a high level, it's not very illuminating. The sites rundown on its own technology is interesting - basically saying that the blockweave rewards you for duplicating historical data (unlike the blockchain) and eventually results in a "permaweb" of data.

I can't say that I fully understand at all but I remain intrigued. Maybe you will be as well.