IPFS As An Archival Storage Solution

IPFS is presented as a lightweight way to preserve historical data that blockchains and web archives otherwise struggle to keep. The piece cites Ethereum's proposed EIP-4444, which would force clients to prune data older than one year and suggests IPFS as one possible home for it, while an archive node needs an estimated 12+ TB of disk space. It also says The Internet Archive uses IPFS to help maintain its massive archive. It closes by promoting Pinata's pinning and dedicated gateway services.