Dropbox Sunsets Obegränsat lagringserbjudande på grund av kryptogruvarbetare

• Dropbox is sunsetting its “Advanced Plan,” which offers unlimited storage to customers. 
• Företaget citerade energiuttömmande aktiviteter som krypto- och Chia-brytning som skälet till beslutet.
• Under the new “Advanced Plan” with three licenses, customers will get 15 TB of storage shared by the team.
• Klienter som använder mindre än 35 TB kan behålla sitt lagringsutrymme gratis, tillsammans med ytterligare 5 TB poolad lagring.

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Dropbox, ett filvärdtjänstföretag baserat i San Francisco, Kalifornien, har meddelat att det kommer att sluta erbjuda obegränsad lagring till sina användare efter att det hittat flera instanser av personer som använder erbjudandet för resursuttömmande processer som brytning av kryptovaluta. Utvinning av digitala tillgångar som Bitcoin har uppmärksammats av konglomerat och tillsynsmyndigheter för dess ökade energikrav och effekter på miljön. 

I en blogg posta 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.

Dessutom bekräftade Dropbox att från och med den 24 augusti kommer den nya avancerade planen med tre aktiva licenser att tillåta kunder att få 15 TB lagringsutrymme som delas av teamet. Dessutom kommer varje ytterligare aktiv licens att få 5 TB lagringsutrymme. 

“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. 

Som tidigare rapporterats av Bitnation, har lagstiftare i USA övervägt sätta ett förbud på brytning av kryptovalutor, vilket kan ta en vägtull på den digitala tillgångssektorn. 

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