INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Chinese government has been removing criticism of its coronavirus response from apps like Weibo, the local equivalent of Twitter
Users pay upfront for a hundred years of storage at less than a cent per megabyte, and the interest that accrues will cover the dwindling
More than one million pieces of data are now stored on the permaweb, and nearly 200 apps have been developed.That includes perma-apps like
WeiBlocked, which crawls Weibo for content likely to be censored
It indexes these posts and decentralizes them in the storage of hundreds of Arweave nodes operated around the world
WeiBlocked later checks back to see if the content has been censored, and then highlights them on its permaweb site you can access from a
The act of censorship actually causes the sensitive content to become increasingly visible
The more the Chinese government tries to hide information about Dr
Li Wenliang, an early coronavirus whistleblower who was pressured into silence by Chinese police and later died of the sickness, the more
the unmutable layer of the internet attracted the new $8.3 million in funding just four months after Arweave raised its last $5 million from
Andreessen Horowitz, USV and Multicoin Capital
Along with video chat apps, Arweave is one of the startups benefiting from the unfortunate ripple effects of the tragic coronavirus.Rather
These are what users spend to store data on the Arweave permaweb
employing these token economics to build out its developer ecosystem
Arweave Grants to fund proposals for startups, projects, organizations and marketing initiatives that will grow permaweb usage
Both resources come with technical guidance and mentorship from Arweave and its investors.With more than 500 nodes in operation, Arweave
supports decentralized blogging platforms, indestructible documents, a social network called FEEDweaveand apps that can keep running even if
their owners go out of business
This makes it impossible to block users within China from viewing the content in the WeiBlocked archive, as there is no one host or IP that
risk of some yet-undiscovered code problems, or another permanent approach to the web undercutting Arweave
itself from even a disruption of internet connectivity itself
