Dropbox Sunsets, Kripto Madencileri Sayesinde Sınırsız Depolama Teklifi Sunuyor
- Dropbox is sunsetting its “Advanced Plan,” which offers unlimited storage to customers.
- Firma, kararın nedeni olarak kripto ve Chia madenciliği gibi enerji tüketen faaliyetleri gösterdi.
- Under the new “Advanced Plan” with three licenses, customers will get 15 TB of storage shared by the team.
- 35 TB'tan az depolama alanı kullanan müşteriler, ek 5 TB havuz depolama alanıyla birlikte depolama alanlarını ücretsiz olarak tutabilirler.
Merkezi San Francisco, Kaliforniya'da bulunan bir dosya barındırma hizmetleri şirketi olan Dropbox, kripto para birimi madenciliği gibi kaynak tüketen işlemler için teklifi kullanan birden fazla kişinin örneğini tespit ettikten sonra kullanıcılarına sınırsız depolama sunmayı bırakacağını duyurdu. Bitcoin gibi dijital varlıkların madenciliği, artan enerji gereksinimleri ve çevre üzerindeki etkileri nedeniyle holdinglerin ve düzenleyicilerin dikkatini çekti.
Bir blogda İleti 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.
Ayrıca Dropbox, 24 Ağustos'tan itibaren üç aktif lisansa sahip yeni Gelişmiş Planın, müşterilerin ekip tarafından paylaşılan 15 TB depolama alanı almasına olanak tanıyacağını doğruladı. Ayrıca her ek aktif lisansa 5 TB depolama alanı verilecek.
“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.
Bitnation tarafından daha önce bildirildiği gibi, ABD'deki yasa yapıcılar şunları değerlendirdi: yasak koymak dijital varlık sektörüne zarar verebilecek kripto para madenciliği konusunda.