Oferta de armazenamento ilimitado do Dropbox Sunsets devido a criptomineradores
- Dropbox is sunsetting its “Advanced Plan,” which offers unlimited storage to customers.
- A empresa citou atividades que consomem muita energia, como criptografia e mineração de Chia, como o motivo da decisão.
- Under the new “Advanced Plan” with three licenses, customers will get 15 TB of storage shared by the team.
- Os clientes que usam menos de 35 TB podem manter seu armazenamento gratuitamente, junto com 5 TB adicionais de armazenamento em pool.
Dropbox, uma empresa de serviços de hospedagem de arquivos com sede em São Francisco, Califórnia, anunciou que deixará de oferecer armazenamento ilimitado a seus usuários depois de encontrar vários casos de pessoas usando a oferta para processos que consomem recursos, como mineração de criptomoedas. A mineração de ativos digitais como o Bitcoin atraiu a atenção de conglomerados e reguladores devido ao aumento das necessidades energéticas e aos efeitos no meio ambiente.
Em um blog publicar 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.
Além disso, o Dropbox confirmou que a partir de 24 de agosto, o novo Plano Avançado com três licenças ativas permitirá aos clientes receber 15 TB de espaço de armazenamento compartilhado pela equipe. Além disso, cada licença ativa adicional receberá 5 TB de armazenamento.
“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.
Conforme relatado anteriormente pela Bitnation, os legisladores dos Estados Unidos consideraram colocando uma proibição na mineração de criptomoedas, o que pode prejudicar o setor de ativos digitais.
Jornalista cripto com mais de 3 anos de experiência em DeFi, NFT, metaverso, etc. Parth trabalhou com grandes meios de comunicação no mundo cripto e financeiro e ganhou experiência e conhecimento em cultura criptográfica depois de sobreviver a mercados de baixa e alta ao longo dos anos.
