Public Data Addresses

In the previous introduction to meta templates, we introduced a meta template used in Metadisk for storing files. This method is fine if I want to store a file using Metadisk, and share the file with someone else. If I, however, have hundreds of files I would have to pass the hashes of the thousands of files to another person.

We instead can make a slight change to the way we send data to the blockchain. We can send the data to a public address that we generate, rather than the genesis address of the template. We can add hundreds of files to our own address, and if we ever wanted to share those files we just share the public address instead of the hashes of all the files we stored in the blockchain.