I just wanted to add an update. Uphold just added an option to "Buy" Arweave on their site. However, you cannot withdraw the Arweave from uphold, only hold or sell it. So you cannot use the AR purchased on Uphold.[[https://uphold.com/en/assets/crypto/buy-arweave]]
https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=3211770
That's a 17-18 year old torrent, it has been seeding for nearly 18 years because people believe in it. As the volume and size and use of ARweave grows, the likelihood that it continues increases as people come to believe to the point that nearly every PC has spare storage dedicated to mining in order to maintain an accurate history, for instance what if genealogies began to be stored to it to prove their existence at a point in time? Men would feel dedication to the seeding or preservation of the records.