@paul-bms

For those not already aware, Nick from Celestia shared a well-written thread on data availability (https://x.com/nickwh8te/status/1656321650475044865). There’s no need to break what’s not broken or reinvent the wheel, but there’s something missing from his buffet analogy that being: inspecting the buffet or in our example the tomatoes on the buffet. Data Availability ≠ Data Storage ≠ Data Validity 🥫 #DataStorage is like canned food. 🍱 #DataAvailability is an all-you-can-eat buffet. 🕵️‍♀️ #DataValidity is the quality inspector. In Nick's explanation, "Data storage solves the need to preserve data for future retrieval, similar to canning food. It's sealed and stored for later consumption." This analogy emphasizes the ease of accessing stored data multiple times without additional charges or data loss. But here's the problem: a can is not transparent.

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