Safecoin composting/recycling

[jlpell]

@neo

And we might decide to decay your precious data too, because it sounds neat.

I never put decaying/composting the data on the discussion table, just safecoin ownership. However, this raises a question I’ve had.

How does the safe network delete data?
Let’s say I have a bunch of documents that I don’t want backed up online any more and decided they can go in the trash. How do those chunks get removed from the network, freeing up space for use by others?

Second question: If it cost me some safecoin to store data on the network, do I get some safecoin returned back to me when I delete the data?

EDIT: Nevermind, I found this thread …

Deletion of SD objects

This post to inform you of a change in SD deletion implementation that took place one month ago, that might be of interest to developers and that seems problematic to me. Previously, deletion was equivalent to posting a new version of SD with an empty payload. The advantage of doing so was that history of a SD could not be rewritten: Only the owner of deleted SD could recreate a SD with the same name If the owner wanted to recreate the SD, he or she had to start from previous version number +…