On a very limited basis, I’m already doing this with my #oddsandends posts. Granted, just snippets of articles, rather than the full text of articles.

But the Internet Wayback Machine has repeatedly run into storage barriers, more than once begging for money for hardware. Here, something like the SpeakNetwork’s distributed storage might help. But for Hive, how much data could the blockchain itself handle?

Right now, we’re nowhere near filling up blocks. But with a lot of archiving the internet, that would become a real issue. Of course, the core devs might at some point increase the amount of data a block could contain and/or significantly reduce the 3-second threshold.