On Friday, Oct. 19, the developers of Bitcoinfiles.com launched the first official version of the product. Now anyone from around the globe can tether a file (5kb or less) to the BCH chain, ensuring its resistance to censorship.
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File Storage Tethered to the Bitcoin Cash Blockchain
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) developers James Cramer, Attila Aros and ‘Hapticpilot’ have announced the launch of a working product called Bitcoinfiles.com, a platform that allows people to upload and download files tied to the BCH blockchain. Currently, the files allowed have to be small and the service only allows 5kb or less per upload. The programmers have added a $0.25 fee in order to process a BCH file upload. Downloading a file doesn’t cost anything and you can share the file’s URL with anyone you like.
Uploading and Downloading Timothy May’s Timeless Manifesto
Experimenting with Bitcoinfiles.com is fairly intuitive if you are able to operate a BCH wallet and are familiar with uploading files to hosting sites. Basically, users simply press the upload button and can browse their operating system for files under 5kb. In order to test the platform, news.Bitcoin.com copy and pasted the entire text from Timothy May’s Crypto Anarchist Manifesto text into a rich text file (rtf) which ended up being roughly 4kb in size.
After pressing the upload button and choosing a file, the user has to accept a disclaimer which basically states that Bitcoinfiles.com is not responsible for illicit behavior. After accepting the disclaimer, you can pay for the file upload ($0.25 + network fee) either by using the Money Button or using a QR code and the text from a traditional address.
After whipping out the