Dropbox rinuncia all'offerta di spazio di archiviazione illimitato a causa dei crypto miner

• Dropbox is sunsetting its “Advanced Plan,” which offers unlimited storage to customers. 
• L'azienda ha citato attività ad alto consumo energetico come le criptovalute e il mining di Chia come motivo della decisione.
• Under the new “Advanced Plan” with three licenses, customers will get 15 TB of storage shared by the team.
• I clienti che utilizzano meno di 35 TB possono mantenere il proprio spazio di archiviazione gratuitamente, insieme a ulteriori 5 TB di spazio di archiviazione in pool.

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Dropbox, una società di servizi di file hosting con sede a San Francisco, in California, ha annunciato che smetterà di offrire spazio di archiviazione illimitato ai propri utenti dopo aver trovato più casi di persone che utilizzano l'offerta per processi esaurienti in termini di risorse come il mining di criptovaluta. L’estrazione di asset digitali come Bitcoin ha attirato l’attenzione di conglomerati e regolatori per il suo crescente fabbisogno energetico e gli effetti sull’ambiente. 

In un blog inviare 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.

Inoltre, Dropbox ha confermato che a partire dal 24 agosto il nuovo Piano Advanced con tre licenze attive consentirà ai clienti di ricevere 15TB di spazio di archiviazione condiviso dal team. Inoltre, ogni licenza attiva aggiuntiva riceverà 5 TB di spazio di archiviazione. 

“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. 

Come riportato in precedenza da Bitnation, i legislatori degli Stati Uniti hanno preso in considerazione mettendo un divieto sul mining di criptovalute, che potrebbe incidere negativamente sul settore degli asset digitali. 

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