Phil Mataras-CEO at Permanent Data Solutions-discusses Arweave's innovative "pay once, store forever" model and its potential to revolutionize various industries, from content creation to healthcare, by offering permanent storage solutions. Phil also sheds light on the regulatory challenges that come with the rapid pace of innovation in the Web3 space.

Key Takeaways:

What permanent storage means, and why it's important / useful

How AI and permanent storage can work together

The future of data preservation and accessibility

Missing links needed for mainstream adoption of permanent storage

Guest Bio: Phil Mataras is the CEO of Permanent Data Solutions (PDS), a company building Web3 apps and infrastructure that power the Arweave permaweb: a permanent Internet. The PDS suite of products includes AR.IO (a protocol and incentivized network of decentralized gateway nodes that provide services for reading, writing, and indexing the data on Arweave), and ArDrive (a pay-as-you-go storage app built on Arweave that makes it easy to permanently archive, download, and share your public or private data).