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Four documents, the same five questions.
No throughput league table and no yield. The cells are what this library is willing to say about the text.
| Question | Arweave yellow paper |
|---|---|
| What the text proposes | Arweave's protocol paper for permanent storage: miners store a recall block drawn from the history, an endowment is supposed to prepay storage, and the dataset is content-addressed. The yellow paper is the technical document. Marketing pages are not a substitute. |
| Who may write | Sam Williams and the Arweave team |
| What is settled | A block includes a reference to a recall block. Mining requires access to that historical data. |
| Load-bearing assumption | Pay-once storage is only as permanent as the endowment and the miner set. The paper does not repeal the cost of disks. |
| What this library says afterwards | The yellow paper version matters. Later updates change mechanics. |
| Rights | Official external source only |