arweave VS bee

For example, decentralized data storage projects like Filecoin, Arweave, and Sia posted 50-100% user growth, providing blockchain-powered alternatives to AWS, Google Cloud, and Dropbox for distributed app data security.

There are a few solutions:

https://www.arweave.org/

https://www.lighthouse.storage/

To me, they seem like the most useful stuff coming out of the blockchain industry.

Familiar DePIN initiatives include Helium, a Decentralized Wireless Network from 2019, Filecoin or Arweave for Cloud Storage.

Arweave is a permanent and decentralized web inside an open ledger.

The metadata in question is called “tags” on the Arweave blockchain. Tags are a list of keys and values you can add to your transactions to give the reader of that transaction additional information about it. They aren’t pre-defined by the protocol; you can add custom tags. But there are several specifications that try to standardize common tags.

Arweave

IPFS isn't the right use case for a dropbox clone. It behaves like a CDN with no persistence guarantees.

Arweave is better suited to archival storage. There are options for participants to ban particular types of content which may be illegal to host in their jurisdiction. This was designed to prevent the spread of CP, terrorism related info, etc. but that means it is also susceptible to DCMA issues too.

https://www.arweave.org/

Arweave is a community owned, decentralized and permanent data storage protocol. You can check it out here.

Another choice is Arweave.

Deployed Bee to the mainnet (v1.14.1).

Are you mixing up projects? https://www.ethswarm.org/

You can download the most recent bee packages here: https://github.com/ethersphere/bee/releases/latest

February was a big month for the Swarm network. The price of postage stamps has been recalibrated with the release of Bee 1.20, which marks a major milestone for Swarm’s self-sustaining network. The Research Track has also completed the documentation for Phase 4, which details the work of this phase of the Storage incentives roadmap.

There is a project called Swarm that does exactly this.

https://www.ethswarm.org

(Disclosure: I am working on the project)

https://www.ethswarm.org/ is like storj (stores the file as chunks of data) but more secure and censorship resistant.

In short, there will be five phases to the upgrade (you can expect a more detailed blog on the topic soon). Phase 1 started on 13 September with the breaking release of Bee 1.8.0. This phase will be followed by four other phases that will upgrade the storage incentives mechanism, recalibrate the network, change the storage price, introduce a decentralised price oracle and improve the overall state of the network.

There were two versions of the Bee client released in the last month. It is important to mention that node operators are requested to update to the latest version (1.7.0) as soon as possible because there was a change in the protocol.