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RE: Introducing STEEM Liberator - Preserving important files on the STEEM blockchain.
Be careful going too far beyond a PoC though - it turns out that you will need quite a bit of SP to store anything very substantial. I'd recommend perhaps a 50KiB sanity limit on uploads.
SP directly affects how much can be uploaded at one time, but I'm not sure why that would be of any real concern during the PoC stages.
STEEM already has a lot of bloat and what I am doing, anyone can do. It is easy to politely ask me to be careful, but if someone wanted to attack STEEM it wouldn't be so easy to ask them to quit.
I have a decent amount invested in STEEM and powered up on my account. I would personally like to see STEEM do well.
If a 5MB upload can make the entire network freak out and hit a bug that prevents lower level users from doing anything, the network wasn't QA'd under heavy load. My experience is of a QA manager. And I can document exactly what was done when I triggered any issues, reducing time to find a fix by a considerable amount.
Trust me that I'm not going to intentionally break things. But also remember that anyone anywhere can do all of this with