Car wash Anji and Wonk level I repository

It had been 6 months. Anji's tests were clean. She had a small efficiency, but no roommates. Time for a new route Anji, you've made the big leagues. Here's your new ride.

It looks like an RV, Anji said evenly.

It is an RV Wonk replied grinning, PNWRV, at least the chassis, body and driver area. It's configured for data storage, not as a land yacht. Has a bit of armor, but less than an armored car. All the commercial data is encrypted, so why steal it? Your route encompasses these 5 level II repositories with your drop off here, Seattle's public level I.

The triangle is bordered by 99, 1st Ave, and S. Mead. It was one of those zoning nightmares where  commercial, high density residential and neighborhood haunts collided. As the various cryptocurrencies took off, the triangle began to morph into a data repository. Traffic sometimes backs up on any and all of the feeder routes. Data RVs get their own lane once they were in the triangle, though they have to share with the bookmobiles.

Wonk watched with some consternation as he saw the problems with people getting lost, parking, getting out of their vehicles. Then he thought about car washes with their cueing, the green light when its your turn. It was an 80% solution, robot picks up the delivery, you get a car wash, what's not to like?

Mead Triangle was a first level repository.

What's the difference between a depository and a repository?

Well, said Wonk, it's a bit like the difference between jail and prison. The data in a depository is expected to be there for a long time and is almost certainly not online. Data in a repository is usually kept online for a year or so. Some places offer both services of course.

I was waiting to make a pickup in Bellevue the other day, crystal was still printing and Oilcan Henry was telling me that the blockchain protocol would accept a new block as long as over half the ledgers agreed, so what is the point of online repositories?

Well Anji, the Internet was almost lost once to some malware called Conficker. Very few people knew what it was then and fewer still remember today. The big problem was there were so many DNS registrars, 118 if I remember, and they all had to coordinate. That took time and energy as well as potential lost revenue for the domains they had to black hole. For H Coin, we are trying to have enough registries to make a denial of service challenging and yet, not so many we cannot manage them.


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