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Let's say I wanted to create a music midi dapp player where I store all the .midi files in RAM or should I store it in the blockchain (log?).

Example: http://www.midishrine.com/index.php?id=85

Let's say I wanted to upload one of the midi files there, the 2.2KB one.

  • How much would it cost to store in RAM vs LOG?
  • How do you upload a file like that? Which wallets support it? What is the cleos command?
  • How would one retrieve it back?
  • Can one retrieve it back via one of the block explorers?
  • What else might I be missing to make this work?
  • And last, compared to ethereum, how much would it cost to do it there vs EOS?
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You definitely should not use RAM for binary data unless it's literally very few bytes. The RAM cost will be prohibitive. And just imagine it in scale: the current available amount of RAM can store only a few HD videos.

It is my understanding that, whenever you need binary data, you use some third-party way to store the data itself, and just store and URL and hash of the data on the blockchain.

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  • that requires 2 separate services or blockchains. which means double authentication. I wanted to keep everything under the same roof.
    – Patoshi パトシ
    Commented Oct 25, 2018 at 22:06
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    @Patoshiパトシ Understandable, but the costs outweigh the benefit. We can use a microscope to hammer nails, or store HD movies in our local computer's RAM, just to have one tool do all jobs. But it's better to bring a hammer, or store movies on a hard disk, respectively.
    – Gassa
    Commented Oct 25, 2018 at 23:40
  • EOS storage was proposed but is not yet available. That would solve the two authentication problem.
    – friedger
    Commented Oct 27, 2018 at 22:21

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