Dropbox Ends Unlimited Storage Due to Crypto Mining
The company announced in a blog post that its unlimited Advanced plan will now be replaced with a metered storage plan, offering new users 15 terabytes of storage.
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Although Dropbox was anticipated that its “all the space you need” plan might lead to varying levels of usage, the company noted a recent surge in certain users consuming “thousands of times more storage than our legitimate business customers.”
“A growing number of customers were buying Advanced subscriptions not to run a business or organization, but instead for purposes like crypto and Chia mining.
”P.S. Chia is a cryptocurrency that utilizes storage space for mining, as opposed to traditional processing power.
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