> if you're running a storage business open to the public, you're going to implement this regardless.
Implement what? This specific mitigation for cryptocurrency mining? If so, then no, you weren't going to fight that particular arms race "regardless", and you don't have to at all if you instead implement sensible storage limits, because the whole enterprise becomes unattractive to those miners within those limits.
> These are not personal customer accounts, these are business accounts.
Yes and that makes it even worse. Do you think businesses care about this less than consumers?
> Are you seriously telling me that a company in the business of providing storage can't efficiently detect Chia mining? That's not a great look for Dropbox.
Yes, I'm seriously telling you that it is difficult and expensive for any service to win an arms race like this against an entire internet's worth of potential adversaries. It isn't a bad look for Dropbox at all, it just is how it is; sometimes products become too costly to sell for one reason or another, and this is the case for "unlimited storage" now.
Implement what? This specific mitigation for cryptocurrency mining? If so, then no, you weren't going to fight that particular arms race "regardless", and you don't have to at all if you instead implement sensible storage limits, because the whole enterprise becomes unattractive to those miners within those limits.
> These are not personal customer accounts, these are business accounts.
Yes and that makes it even worse. Do you think businesses care about this less than consumers?
> Are you seriously telling me that a company in the business of providing storage can't efficiently detect Chia mining? That's not a great look for Dropbox.
Yes, I'm seriously telling you that it is difficult and expensive for any service to win an arms race like this against an entire internet's worth of potential adversaries. It isn't a bad look for Dropbox at all, it just is how it is; sometimes products become too costly to sell for one reason or another, and this is the case for "unlimited storage" now.