Dropbox pone fin a la oferta de almacenamiento ilimitado debido a los criptomineros

• Dropbox is sunsetting its “Advanced Plan,” which offers unlimited storage to customers. 
• La empresa citó actividades que consumen mucha energía, como la minería de criptomonedas y Chia, como motivo de la decisión.
• Under the new “Advanced Plan” with three licenses, customers will get 15 TB of storage shared by the team.
• Los clientes que utilicen menos de 35 TB pueden conservar su almacenamiento de forma gratuita, junto con 5 TB adicionales de almacenamiento compartido.

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Dropbox, una empresa de servicios de alojamiento de archivos con sede en San Francisco, California, anunció que dejará de ofrecer almacenamiento ilimitado a sus usuarios después de encontrar múltiples casos de personas que utilizan la oferta para procesos que consumen muchos recursos, como la minería de criptomonedas. La minería de activos digitales como Bitcoin ha atraído la atención de conglomerados y reguladores por sus mayores necesidades energéticas y sus efectos sobre el medio ambiente. 

en un blog correo on August 24, Dropbox confirmed the news, stating that it is moving to a metered storage policy on its “Advanced Plan.” Furthermore, the American firm confirmed that the vast majority of its customers need not take any action and will be able to keep their existing storage and more for up to five years at no additional charge.

Dropbox added that it had introduced the Advanced Plan, offering businesses unlimited access to data storage under its “as much space as you need” policy. The plan offered customers access to as much storage as they needed, “along with sophisticated admin, audit, security, and integration capabilities,” said the firm, while adding:

“Over time, we found a growing number of customers were buying Advanced subscriptions not to run a business or organization, but instead for purposes like crypto and Chia mining, unrelated individuals pooling storage for personal use cases, or even instances of reselling storage.”

Dropbox confirmed that crypto and China miners consume thousands of times more storage than its regular customers while noting that under its Advanced Plan, it sought to provide “as much storage as needed to run a legitimate business or organization, not to provide unlimited storage for any use case.”

The firm noted that it would be difficult to introduce a list of “acceptable” and “unacceptable” use cases for its Advanced Plan and that it would be a daunting task to enforce them at scale. Therefore, it has decided to sunset the “as much space as you need” policy and is now transitioning to a metered model.

Además, Dropbox confirmó que a partir del 24 de agosto, el nuevo Plan Avanzado con tres licencias activas permitirá a los clientes recibir 15 TB de espacio de almacenamiento compartido por el equipo. Además, cada licencia activa adicional recibirá 5 TB de almacenamiento. 

“Customers using less than 35TB of storage per license—over 99% of Advanced customers—will be able to keep the total amount of storage their team is using at the time they’re notified, plus an additional 5TB credit of pooled storage, for five years at no additional charge to their existing plan,” said Dropbox. 

Como informó anteriormente Bitnation, los legisladores de los Estados Unidos han considerado poniendo una prohibición sobre la minería de criptomonedas, lo que podría pasar factura al sector de activos digitales. 

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