blackbaze

Ingenious! Why not. Beats getting it out of the ground. Possibly good for the environment as for a given gold demand less needs to be mined.

Looks like FORTH!

A private network? Separate from the internet? A dedicated device for said network

Minimum wage by contrast is $915 a week

Old crappy PC has a shared folder on it. That folder is backed up using backblaze. Dump stuff I want backed up from other PCs there.