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I'm posting this announcement on behalf of Borja Javier Lanza Lopez:

A Secure and Permanent Decentralized Storage Platform for Borderless Economy

Stashware is a new solution in the field of decentralised storage networks. It uses a huge distributed and disseminated network of decentralized devices that are not controlled by a single entity or authority. While using the latest technologies in cryptography to ensure data privacy. Stashware focuses on providing large, permanent storage capacity that is resistant to attack and censorship at a minimum cost of storage, maintenance, bandwidth and services without dependency on a specific vendor.

Lastest technologies for a new future

Stashware's technical team carefully analyzed the current solutions and future needs, improving the existing state of the art of Decentralized Storage Networks (DSN) by offering a robust, reliable and versatile platform. The following whitepaper (https://1drv.ms/b/s!AjlQWyDZAW7UiY5cOKTRrmry_W7LGA?e=pEDBbS) describes the proposed platform in detail.

Stashware adopts account based model for its transaction structure and it also support Smart contract for decentralized application.

Stashware is developed in Golang a language used in the most cutting-edge developments of decentralized web 3.0, with multiple advantages in security, concurrency and connectivity. The platform will support IPv4 and IPv6, with an inter-node protocol based on an API - RESTFUL.

Consensus algorithm

Stashware is based on a combination of PoC, PoS and PoA as consensus mechanisms.

In Stashware, the consensus algorithm run between nodes is the improved version of proof of capacity (PoC) with proof of stake (PoS), abbreviated as iPoC. In this consensus, any node with staking at least multiple of 20.000 Stashware coin (SWR) can be a miner. A miner can be selected as validator for confirming the created block or can be creator to publish the block.

The most secure stash for any type of data

Stashware provides the following security services:

• confidentiality of key
• integrity of data
• compromise authentication
• compromise access control
• impersonation of existing users

Stashware will provide any user friendly and transparent open source tools to ensure and fulfill all of the customers’ security and privacy concerns.

Join our subreddit for discussion: r/stashware

Thanx dlubarov.

Welcome to Stashware thread were we will inform about this new project of Decentralized Storage Network with great improvements in the Consensus Mechanism and security features. Solving some of the problems and performances issues the other DSN.

Here you can find the most relevant info about the project.

Visit our website at https://stashware.net/ for the most recent updates and news about the project.

For Read or download the latest technical and economic papers visit:

• https://stashware.net/technical-paper.pdf
• https://stashware.net/token-economic.pdf

Social Media Channels:

Medium: https://medium.com/@stashware (https://medium.com/@stashware)
Twitter: @stashwarenet
Telegram: https://t.me/stashware

Security and Privacy Services of Stashware

Security and Privacy is in the core of Stashware. In this post we'll see which features includes since launch.

There is no confidentiality for traditional cloud storage providers since they have the full control of user data and fully access user files. This is certainly not appreciated by users and enterprises because of sensitivity of private data. Therefore, it is very crucial to store the data (as well as the metadata) in encrypted form as well as give the full control to the user.

Therefore, Stashware provides the state of the art efficient encryption methods (e.g., a signcryption method which is a public-key primitive that signs and encrypts the data simultaneously). The user has fully control of his/her encryption keys. Our encrypted has the following advantages with respect to its competitors:
• Confidentiality: Any external including internal adversaries (e.g., Stashware) could monitor the data moving in memory before it is stored in disk. Data (as well as the metadata) must be encrypted before it reaches Stashware and must always remain encrypted while in Stashware. Secure even if the end application or user accounts are breached.
• Integrity: The data must not be changed without the user consent. Prevent any unauthorized ormalicious modification, manipulation or deletion Malicious users cannot deny having signed the message.
Agile Cryptography: Stashware will provide novel agile cryptography services which aim to meet current and future data security demands. Therefore, the Stashware platform will allow system flexibility and the ability to adapt quickly to newly developed cryptographic algorithms in an efficient and scalable manner.
• Efficient key management: The encryption key management should be designed in such a way that end users have shared control on the keys for data decryption.
• Data at rest: If the user data is sensitive then it should be encrypted on client side so that no one including Stashware can access the data without being detected.
• Authenticity and Integrity: Provide efficient signcryption methods (to provide both integrity and confidentiality of data as well as authenticity an efficient manner).

Stashware has even more features of security to protect the data of the users.

• Signature aggregation: The data will be split into chunks and will be signed by the user. In order to improve efficiency of Stashware, we aim to utilize signatures that allow signature aggregation (e.g., Boneh-Lynn-Shacham (BLS) or Schnorr signatures).

• Efficient hierarchical access control mechanisms: The data can require to be a hierarchical structure (like a tree-like structure) such that certain data can only be retrieval for a specific attribute/role of a user.

• Efficient data sharing mechanisms: Encrypted data should be shared with anyone in an efficient manner (e.g, without being downloaded). Stashware provide an efficient mechanism using so called proxy re-encryption schemes which are used to transform ciphertexts without compromising any security and privacy issues under untrustworthy environments.

• Security against offline attack: Our security methods will provide semantic security which provides randomized encryption and prevents any types of offline attacks.

Whitepaper of Stashware Token economy released

At Stashware we know that for a community to engage in a network it needs a fair and interesting reward system.

Network members and miners are responsible for storing and verifying transactions and should therefore be rewarded.

Making data secure and permanently available in a decentralized network is possible thanks to Stashware, all at a very low cost.

In the following paper you can see what Stashware's token economy is based on.

Token Economy v.6: https://stashware.net/token-economic.pdf (https://stashware.net/token-economic.pdf)



Know a little more of our token (SWR)

The Stashware network uses a token, the scarcity of which is enforced through the consensus mechanism of the stashware data structure. The token’s main unit is the SWR, with subunit stashy, where

1 SWR = 1,000,000,000,000 stashy.

Total supply: about 60,000,000 SWR (all for mining).



Block Generation Time

2.5 minute/blocks.

576 blocks/day.

210,240 blocks/year

840,960/ four year

Website released  ;D ;D ;D

You now can visit https://stashware.net/ for all the news and info about this fascinating project.

Download the latest technical and economic papers in:

https://stashware.net/technical-paper.pdf
 (https://stashware.net/technical-paper.pdf)
https://stashware.net/token-economic.pdf (https://stashware.net/token-economic.pdf)

And don't forget that you can ask us any questions you have about stashware and decentralized storage networks.

Stashware Roadmap

One of the most secure elements of a project is its future prospects.

Therefore we invite you to visit the stashware roadmap on our website.
https://stashware.net/about-roadmap.html

After intensive development, we have a full year of improvements and new features in the future.

For this third quarter we set these important objectives to achieve

Testnet development and demonstration
Front end development including explorer, gateway
Back end development
Testnet Beta version

Get to know all the news on our website and on our social networks

File Contracts and IPFS

Stashware use Interplanetary File System to keep your data safe. IPFS is one of the key technologies in the field of decentralized web. Do you want to know how Stashware interact with IPFS?

A file contract is an agreement between a IPFS provider and the end users with the use of smart contract on Stashware (See Fig 3). The digital contents of files are stored on the IPFS and the IPFS hashes (merkle hash tree) are stored into the blockchain smart contracts to provide traceability and authenticity. To construct a file’s Merkle root hash, the file is split into fragments of constant size and hashed into a Merkle tree.

The root hash, along with the total size of the file, is used to verify the existence of storage. More specifically, the hash generated on storing the documents to IPFS, can be stored in the smart contracts effectively and documents can be accessed using the hash. If there is any change in the content of the digital document, the hash changes, to show that the original content was modified and altered.

In smart contracts, it can also be specified a duration, challenge frequency, and payout parameters, including the reward for a valid proof, the reward for an invalid or missing proof,
and the maximum number of proofs that can be missed. The challenge frequency specifies how often a storage proof must be submitted, and creates discrete challenge windows during
which a host must submit storage proofs (one proof per window). Contracts define a maximum number of proofs that can be missed; if this number is exceeded, the contract becomes invalid.
If the contract is still valid at the end of the contract duration, it successfully terminates and any remaining coins are sent to the valid proof address.

Conversely, if the contract funds are exhausted before the duration elapses, or if the maximum number of missed proofs is exceeded, the contract unsuccessfully terminates and any remaining coins are sent to the missed proof address.

Let's review the actual state of art of Decentralized Storage Networks and which problems have previous solutions.

Siacoin

Siacoin is a blockchain-based decentralized storage platform. It is introduced by a Nebulous Inc company.
Siacoin stores the data by dividing into some fragments then perform cryptographic encryption for distributing it across Sia decentralized network.
Sia project uses proof of storage as a consensus mechanism.

The target of Siacoin is to reducing the overhead costs of cloud storages significantly by allowing users to host or in a sense rent out their free/unused storages and hard drives. Therefore
many people are calling this project as “Airbnb of hard drives”. By offering low-cost and decentralized storage solutions, Sia project has set out to disrupt some big players in the industry such as Amazon A3, Onedrive, Dropbox and Google Drive.

Some of limitations of Siacoin project are:

• difficult to scale and handle large data volumes due to blockchain limitations requires the download the entire blockchain first in order to become a miner
• the previous requisite requires a lot of space and hours of synchronization.
• requires a deposit of SIA coin before-hand in order to rent space on the network
• only allows the payment with the native SIA cryptocurrency
• lower ease-of use for both traditional companies

Let's continue analyzing the ecosystem of DNS and how Stashware has solved the weakness that had other DNS:

Today is Storj one of the big projects in the ecosystem

Storj is another decentralized storage project which is built on the Ethereum network. This project has quite many community users and is dedicated to the open-source and user-experience ethos.
Storj provides a platform, cryptocurrency, and suite of decentralized applications that provides customers to keep data in a secure and decentralized manner.
Storj uses the Ethereum public chain to achieve the consensus, without its own consensus algorithm.
Storj‘s storage technology involves file sharing, similarly to torrents working approach and separates parts of the files to users in the network. User‘s files are encrypted before uploading.
Customers has their own private key to validate the ownership. As soon as a customer wants retrieve his/her file, they request it and Storj uses a distributed hash tables to locate all the shards and piece them together.

• Some disadvantages of Storj project are no storage marketplace for dynamic pricing,
• single point of failure of the Storj service through storj bridges ,
• more subjected to vulnerabilities (like dDOS attacks) due to the fragmented solution./li]
  

Today we are going to analyze the weak points of a little less known platform that is Lightchain focused in Ethereum Blockchain + IPFS.

Lightchain is an Ethereum-compatible blockchain which aims to provide privacy-enabled, contentsharing (movies, music, documents, blogs, posts, and other digital assets etc) on blockchain.
Lightstreams provides its own MainNet network, and a testnet called sirius. It is a permissioned decentralized storage system and uses proof of authority as consensus mechanism that restrains exchange from having a lot of nodes. It is also based on IPFS for uncapped and free data storage.
It provides Ethereum for smart contracts and Tendermint infrastructure for blockchain Proof of Authority. Private and large sized files are stored decentrally using the IPFS protocol with an additional security layer for protecting access to content.

In our technical whitepaper we also analyzed Filecoin one of the first DSN.

Filecoin is an open-source, cryptocurrency and decentralized storage system. It aims to be a blockchain-based cooperative digital storage and data retrieval method that targeting to replace HTTP.

This project is owned by Protocol Labs and builds on top of IPFS, allowing users to rent their free and hard drive devices. However, it is not capable for permissioning access to protected content.

The Filecoin DSN protocol can be implemented on top of any consensus protocol that allows for verification of the Filecoins proofs.

It allows periodically producing cryptographic proofs ensuring that they are providing the required capacity. In Filecoin, not only are miners given token rewards for hosting files, but they must prove that they are continuously replicating the files for more secure storage.

They are also rewarded for distributing content quickly the miner that can do this the fastest ends up with the tokens.

One of the disadvantages of Filecoin is customers have to pay for storage and retrieval of their own file.

Also, Filecoin is lack of an incentivization layer that can help in its mass adoption of modern decentralized storage technology.

Although it plans to add smart contract capabilities in the future there is no indication that this will be Ethereum-based, thus losing the benefit of access to the largest community of developers and tools for smart contracts.

Some problems of Filecoin that need to be solved are as follows:
- A technique and proof of evidence is needed to confirm the customers data has been deleted by the nodes (storage miners) after data retrieval so only customers have access to it from that point on.
- Bridges or connections that operate outside of the blockchain and allow communication between different blockchain technologies will have to be invented so that smart contracts can function on the Filecoin blockchain.
- How to verify the security and privacy of stored data and ensure the nodes has notretrieved by decrypting the customer‘s confidential data during storage.
- There is no clear mechanism that storage providers and storage retrievers will be efficiently rewarded and incentivized that they try to protect their reputation and not to act in a malicious way.

You need to post all the vital links on the OP as it is the first post the users will check.
And if you have connections with this project, let them know that it is better to have a representative here in the forum.
For them to answer questions directly and know the sentiments of their potential customers.
Because without their supporters, it would be hard for them to thrive in crypto market.

By the way, I can't find your subreddit and the link as well on your site is broken and it can't be found.

I agree with TimeTeller because community is the one that drives far most on the development of the project with the suggestions they put in and promotion too. Is this only been worked by two hardworking developers or there more numbers included?

I have same curiosity on team, I can't help but wonder why the first poster even bother to post this ann thread on your behalf, only for you to popped in within the next hour. He also only posted two posts of this project, both an ann, and never posted eversince to reply or to comment om the development, so I don't think he's a representative. Was it your alt?

Next, about project details, I've see your website, but just to be clear before we move to a more detailed question, this is a data storage, like a cloud storage, and not a physical items storage in sense of a warehousing unit?

They move the conversation to: https://www.reddit.com/r/Blockchainstorage/

I´m sure they were banned in Reddit because the name "Stashware" itself could have a tricky meaning, apart from the content they published, that as far as I´m reading it´s really interesting.

TimeTeller thanx for your comments and advice. I updated my first message that is the second of the post to update the important info.

It is clear that the success of a network depends not only on its technical advances, but also on the support of the community.

Blockchain networks are more secure when they are more decentralized and that depends on the number of validators provided by community members.

 That's why this thread is so important, along with the versions corresponding to the different languages of the post. Since we want to respond in the native language of our users. Starting in this case both the English and Spanish speaking community.

Trust is gained with effort and confidence.

Well as Joseba explained in a previous post. Past days were a little busy. Problems of centralized ownership. Reddit deleted 2 subreddits that we created. Because they didn't like the word stash.

You know that stash can be just secure private resources or hideout. Or in slang just relative to illegal things. In Spanish, that is my mother language, we have 2 several words that you can difference.
So they just delete without a warning, and without just see the content of the reddit, that is similar to the post here.
And we "lost" from 1 second to another some content. The most important the questions and opinions of users interested. I can repost info, but I can't answer again a original posted question.

And it give us more reason to decentralized information to be persistent :)

About the team. Stashware is not just 2 anonymous hardworking developers. We know that the faces behind a project are important, for the credibility and trust of the project.
Stashware has a seasoned developer team. Has a team of advisors with previous successfully projects released. And a building up team of ambassadors and community managers. The first is me but not the last.

And yes that info is now missing in the web but not for long time.

Well, Miiike is easy. After the whitepaper has a final version ready to be released, and also the token economy defined.

We wanted to start a debate and gather the opinion of the community as several users have previously pointed out wisely.
Agile focus. Get quick feedback from the community as they will be using your platform.
What concerns or needs they have. What doesn't convince them. What mistakes they find that you haven't seen.
Be better thanks to the help of those who support you and Be humble.

As you see I have to learn myself a lot by mistakes, errors or disgraces with forums.

Why dlubarov create the ANN (Announce Posts)?.
Well you know much better than I how bitcointalk works. A freshly created account, can't create post. And you know that this is to prevent bots, ico spams and other very annoying things. And as you see by my level I didn't have so antiquity.  So he made us the favour and since them I continue to explain and answer your questions.
So he is not my alt. And I'm the representative or community manager of Stashware and as I said I'm pleased to answer your question and explain the project.
You can always be new somewhere. And a Pleasure to meet some Legendary and Hero members ;).

I'm Spaniard and I have more of 3 years in blockchain - dlt technologies. We flavored more other channels, meetups so I wasn't very active here. Just read, learn but not comment.  But I found Stashware very interesting as I have a background in big data and decentralized storage and IPFS for offchain data.

Because yes this is permanent distributed storage of data. So yes more cloud data. More focused in backup or permanent documents that you want to store, that daily synchronized data like One Drive or Dropbox. Similar to Filecoin but with several features and improvements.

Well Reddit has some serious problem with stash word

Yes it has been a busy days, but Thanx for pointing out. I'm updating all the info and solving the errors detected.

Thanx for all your answers and comments.

A new version of our whitepaper has been released. Don't forget to check it out.

Today we are going to review Arweave, a project where it's vision Stashware has greatly improved.

Arweave is a blockchain storage project similar to IPFS/FileCoin. Its vision is to solve the problems of the Internet, where it believes that data can be easily changed, regulated and lost. Arweave hopes to be a complementary system to the Internet, using the blockchain approach to permanently store data, which cannot be changed, and using token incentives to achieve sustainability. It proposes a number of technical innovations to address existing blockchain issues, including: BHL, WL, BlockWeave, Proof of Access, Wildfire, BlocksShadows.

These technical points complement each other to form a complete and reasonable solution.
In general, Arweave proposes a number of solutions to the current blockchain problem, and deeply contemplate the use of token incentive mechanism to solve it, thus achieving a dynamic balance. For example, if each node does not need to store all blocks of data, what data does it need to store? Arweave’s incentive mechanism leads people to store "rare blocks" so that they have a higher probability of getting blocks out.

That’s where the economic incentive comes in.
The wildfire rating system also uses tokens to motivate users to respond to requests and thus make the overall system better. It’s great from a conceptual point of view, and it hits a lot of the sore points of the current chain.

Weaknesses of Arweave

The actual application scenario is too narrow for developers to use, and the Arweave feature can be applied to HTML5 web pages. According to the security, establish decentralized H5- APP. Arweave‘s data are all stored on blockchain. In practice, however, we have a narrower set of scenarios for issuing this depository. As you can see, the most stored in Arweave at the moment are screen-shots of some of the anti-government comments from Twitter. At the same time, Arweave’s feature is that you can never tamper with it. This is especially difficult when you’re developing an application because if you upload it to Arweave, you have to make sure that there are no errors. If there are errors, even a single punctuation mark, the content you’ve uploaded will be invalidated and you will have to re-upload it, which will result in a lot of garbage.

In addition, due to the openness of blockchain, the content posted on Arweave is open to the whole society, which is not suitable for uploading personal content. Although the team says Arweave is IPFS-compatible developers building on IPFS can seamlessly transition to Arweave. However, if developers develop based on Arweave, they will not be able to directly update their HTML5 apps. Developers must simply abandon the old version, and there is bound to be some inconvenience in re-uploading the new version. The business model is relatively simple, which may trigger a price war for homogenized projects.

Arweave focuses on one-time payment and access to permanent file storage. This model is relatively simple, but there is a risk that it will lead to homogenized projects that use the same storage concept and start a price war. In addition, as mentioned at the beginning, it requires the integration of so many new technologies to form a complete and reasonable solution. Various technical points need to be supported and supplemented each other, and it may not be of great significance to draw out a single point for reference. In the current situation, its token mechanism has been preliminary able to run the version, but its actual business scenario application function. On June 15, 2020, the first storage function directly over 80KB large files was available, all with test code. So the value of its practical application is still far away. Recent code has also been desperately trying to fix various file storage synchronization bugs.

This is basically its main function, and if it doesn’t have an OK, it’s actually of very little value. And above do application development, it is basically impossible, its intelligent contract application development with JS API is a complete simulation demo.

There were only 2 small JS files, and they were not updated for 7 months. Recently, they were suddenly updated for 5 days. All of them were warning and annotated.

What an exciting moment, i suppose. I mean, in this quarter you will set quite important issues for the success of the project. Could you be more explicit with the Testnet and with this two points that appear in the roadmap https://stashware.net/about-roadmap.html?

- Mainnet release phase 1 with 3 seed nodes.
- Mainnet confirmation and public phase.

This weekend we have a recap with the Developer Team, and we are in the tracks of our planning. Of course it demands lot of effort and lack of sleep but still not barrier ahead.

Well soon we will launch the inside private testnet to start looking for performance issues and solve the expected problems that should happen.

After that and with the insights of the testnet we will launch the Mainnet.

In the economic paper that you can read at  https://stashware.net/token-economic.pdf

First we will test the production ready release of Stashware that is the first point you say. And then Mainnet public phare.

Just to remember that there are 2 stages.

Stage one (Mainnet phase-1): This phase is about 15 days. During this phase, 20 nodes will be nominated and 8640 (576*15) blocks will be created and total reward will be approx. 11,000,000 SWR. Namely, for each block 1,300 SWR is given to the miners.
Stage two: Mainnet phase-2 mining will be around 49,000,000 SWR within the following 20 years. That is the public phase that any node with enough staking of tokens can participate in the validation of blocks.

One of your key feature is the security and (one may say) impenetrability of your storage. I don't think I will goes down to one-on-one comparison between you and other cloud storage services, but one that comes to my mind, though, will there be a fail-safe method? Like for example one forgot their password, or (in a very likely cases) the storage owner passed away with their files encrypted in your service, which the family or next of kin was trying to retrieve (with or without the belated's permission is not a matter to be considered in this case) said files. Will there be a method to facilitate this?

Great to see you again Miike and as always I'ts a pleasure to answer your questions.

The Big Dilemma, that a closest friends resume with No keys - no crypto.

The question is both philosophical and practical.

Decentralized systems give users a responsibility that they are not used to, which is to be the guardian and custodian of their own security. People are not used to having to guard something unique which, if lost, makes it impossible to recover what they are guarding. How many crypto currencies have been lost because of this.

People also do not make an inventory of the digital assets they have and how to protect them and above all bequeath them in the face of unfortunate accidents and unforeseen events.

As that is known, Stashware will incorporate a decentralized key management system to help anyone and especially those with less knowledge to easily use the platform.
The systems currently proposed are the most popular and efficient in terms of security and convenience. What is a telephone number, which often already works as a factor of identity. or an intelligent identity document, such as NFC passports.

Our value proposal is to offer a decentralized system of permanent storage. And that is why we have to offer the greatest possible ease of use.

Experienced users who are jealous of their privacy will be able to function as usual. Being the custodians of their passwords, being one or several wallet addresses being as anonymous as they can be.

And those people who prefer either for convenience or knowledge to use such a decentralized key manager, but having to provide information to identify them, and authenticate them unequivocally.

This is contemplated within our development plan, but after the launch, as we iterate and add new features.

We will also address the issue of key accountability and custody. In the end, if we want people to use Stashware as a permanent repository for all their documents, we have to make sure that people are aware of the management and legacy of the keys.

I personally believe that one day it will be common for inheritances to be largely digital, not just assets such as crypto-currencies, or assets such as houses and land that can be tokenized. If not something else important such as history (photos of your grandparents, or great-grandparents or your own, the family tree, photos of meetings or audios. Time boxes for our children...

This is an interesting subject that we will surely deal with in our medium.

In short, if we have thought about it, we are aware of the problem and therefore we will implement a decentralized system of key management. But as value is added after the launch of the MainNet.

We have new articles at Medium, describing the methods of consensus used in Decentralized Storage Networks.
Check it out at:

https://medium.com/@stashware (https://medium.com/@stashware)

Well, to limit the topic, I am not talking the situation on philosophical view, so we can just leave it strictly on practical use, and I didn't mean to be rude, but I seems failed to grasp the main idea of your answer. Would you please explain again? Perhaps in a simpler and more direct answer

Of course you are not rude.  You are right in your concerns, We are aware of this kind of problem.
What safeguards can be implemented without losing the spirit of decentralization and the importance of the custody of the keys?
As I have commented, the implementation of a decentralized key management system is being considered in the design phase.

But this feature will not be available at the release.  It will be incorporated in future iterations of the development roadmap.

The way to recover access to files will involve a unique element that the user owns, for this we have considered a phone number or NFC smart identity card as it could be a modern passport.

We start a brand new week with the same energy as always to launch Stashware, the best decentralized storage network, as soon as possible.

We hope that yours will also begin in such an extraordinary way.

We have a new article in Medium where we continue to explain the consensus methods used in decentralized storage solutions. This time it's Proof of Stake.

Read it at https://medium.com/@stashware/existing-consensus-mechanisms-in-decentralized-cloud-storage-iii-pos-a55713e798c8 (https://medium.com/@stashware/existing-consensus-mechanisms-in-decentralized-cloud-storage-iii-pos-a55713e798c8)

It's interesting.
look forward to the next.

Great to know about that p3ngu1n. Do you like our medium articles?

Yes. I think it's good to have a well-organized article.
Regular release of information about a product can attract a lot of people, as people aren't interested in things they don't know much about.

We released the last part of the series about the consensus mechanism. This week is Proof of Access.

https://medium.com/@stashware/existing-consensus-mechanisms-in-decentralized-cloud-storage-iv-poa-6f5a31d43073 (https://medium.com/@stashware/existing-consensus-mechanisms-in-decentralized-cloud-storage-iv-poa-6f5a31d43073)

The articles on Medium are good, but I think it is important to use social media to facilitate the spread of articles.
There are many people who are looking even if it seems to be few at first glance.

Yeah we are aware of this situation that is why we publish our social media, and we are going to increase the channels where we publish. We want to spread the advantages of decentralized storage.
Now in forums, Medium and Twitter and soon in many other social networks.

Many people are currently interested in any crypto project.
I hope your project will gain great popularity:D

Well we are working hard and soon we will have great news about our network.

The privacy and security of data stored at Stashware is one of our highest priorities. That's why, from the outset, Stashware is designed with a number of features dedicated to ensuring your protection and privacy.

You can read about them in our latest medium article

https://medium.com/@stashware/security-and-privacy-services-of-stashware-252e0c30302

The development of Stashware continue without delay, as we continue with improve and test our platform.
We soon share great news with you here.

looking forward to heard form you again with great news. :)

So uhh... in other way, to put it bluntly, your team still have not decide what implementation can be used to safeguard an unexpected event such as the user passed away unexpectedly?

Welcome again Miiike, hope you had a wonderful end of summer.

Yes. You are correct. The dev team is busy finishing the Mainnet and the core features.
The development has not advanced that far to be at the point of adding additional features.
So the safeguard feature has not yet been selected for development and therefore has not been analyzed in depth for its implementation.

But this IS a core feature. Your selling point is a service that allows people feel safe to keep their data without the fear of being lost (hence, cloud) or stolen (hence, a third party security system). How would they feel secure if there were no failsafe for the case of the unexpected? I don't think this is an additional feature.

Of course, we can rule this unfortunate event as a team's poor judgement or something that team failed to see. But, this leads to the second thing that pique my interest the second I study your project: team details.

Certainly you didn't plan to offer a data securing service without telling your clients who are the people behind the screen, right?

Miiike we can agree that this feature is important, by providing a security mechanism that facilitates that data does not become unreadable.  And this allows people less versed to access this type of technology.

But we disagree that this is a core feature and disagree that this is due to poor judgment by the development team.

We are precisely in a bitcoin forum where value is transmitted, without that safeguard mechanism, when keys are lost or tokens are sent to the wrong address they are lost.
And we are talking about elements with a lot of value.

Nor do I think that similar solutions within the spectrum of decentralized storage solutions such as Sia, Storj, Arweave, Filecoin ... have incorporated such a feature since the launch. I do not know personally as it is difficult to know each solution in great depth if any incorporates it at present.

The priority of the development team is to create a secure network, and that the mechanism of consensus works, distributing the information through the nodes, with all the other challenges of speed and performance. The primary and most important thing is that the network works and that the wallet is integrated.

If this reduces the spectrum of users to those who are aware of the importance of managing their keys in situations of disability and death. We will work efficiently to expand that spectrum. But most cryptoeconomics projects do not have these safeguards at the beginning.
Your keys are your responsibility.

As we have commented throughout this thread, and with the help of your contributions and questions. Implementing this feature implies a detailed analysis of the possible solutions. To ensure as much as possible the privacy and security of the data. Some solutions involve providing data, that data like a phone number can be used all over the world, we perform biometric data hashes? In the end it is the trio of something that the user knows, something that he owns, and something that he is. Sometimes you can add something where he is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication And that doesn't solve the problem if the user doesn't share his data if he suffers a disability. It's not a trivial issue. It's a big mouthful that has to be chewed and swallowed and deserves its own space to be raised and developed when the network is working.

I'm sorry that we didn't meet the needs of a perfect solution from the launch, but we are working on it. But reaching perfection is not going to prevent us from first releasing a solution that works perfectly.

Well, again we are working in a field originated by a mysterious figure or group of developers hidden under an alias.

But we strongly agree that transparency is the best way to combat Smokeware or Scamware. Being aware of the unknown.
Hence the importance of having a section about us or our team in the project. An aspect that we must improve in our web.

At the end you are entrusting your data to a cryptographic mechanism that keeps it safe from other people's access. And to a decentralized network.

It's clear that no exchange will trade our token unless we provide verified and contrasted information about the security of the project. And we are working in the matter not only from the technological side, but also from the legal and business side to make this be done.

But our code is available for review and this is another way to check that the project does what we say and that there are no hidden elements that undermine their confidence.

At the end although it is important who this behind the mirror, if the Wizard or the scarecrow. The important thing is that when a user invests in SWR so that their data is distributed permanently and safely and only accessible to him, make sure that this is so and that the nodes comply with the contract.

But no, it is not the objective of Stasware members to be unknown, only that there are times and steps that are taken when a decentralized project is created.

In short: team is still looking for a solution for this.

There are ways to get around this issue, one that's surely not that complicated, but I am not sure if I should really share the idea, not before I am sure you're not just another scam project. And by the lack of details, and several minor issues like the fact that your ann thread barely populated by people that's interested on your project, to be blunt, I have a serious doubt that you can survive.

Did you even consider some exposure? Made yourself known to the forum and cryptocommunity?


So...? Will you share the team details? Soonest possible?

Hi Miiike Always is  great to have your insights

In Long (as you see I like to explain with details)

As I commented before, that feature is within the product backlog to be developed within our roadmap. But currently the development team is focused on the mainnet.
It has not been addressed beyond what I said, although you can be sure that the development team is aware. But there are more pressing things like good network performance and ensuring your privacy.
When that stage of development arrives, we will wait for your input if you want to provide it.


No, this is not a Scam project. Let me remind you that we have presented a very interesting value proposal that makes improvements over other solutions within the decentralized storage ecosystem. Incorporating the most relevant technologies within the state of the art.As it is a Blockweave structure to manage the registry. Or Wildfire to propagate the information to the nodes.
Trust is everything in this field. and Trust and security is what we want to transmit to our users. In the development we haven't asked for any funds from the users, and we are doing it with our own resources, earned with effort and tenacity.
And the economic system to integrate the miners with PoS and the economy of the token that involves the purchase of the SWR users to store their data and pay for the space, you know that it has to surpass certain controls.
This is not a 2017 ICO without any value asking for money per idea and wishing to be millionaires and to something else. Of those we have seen many. This is a serious project that has an excellent idea developed by talented people and hopes that this idea is the one that gives value to the project. Real Content for Real Value.

As I've said before, the Stashware team consists of more than 10 people, 5-6 of whom are fully dedicated to development. The rest of us are in management, communication, documentation, business.

It is important to us that Stashware is known at BitcoinTalk, but we are a mainly Spanish and Latin American team. So now our main metric isn't how much interaction we get in our official threads right now. But as you see we value so much the interaction with some of the most involved brilliant people here.

But our core ecosystem doesn`t move or communicate here.
At the team communication level that's what I'm here for as a spokesperson or technical ambassador or the official accounts as a way to bring the messages together and facilitate their follow up and more in these forums that are based on account reputations.

Also in the state of our project we are well so. Even at the risk of raising some eyebrows. To tell you the truth I doubt that it will convince the cryptography and cyber security part of the team to reveal much of them.
You will know more about the front and business side, than about development, since many of them, because of their work, are not exactly prolific with complete profiles.

The community is a very wide thing. You find users and receive feedback, in multiple other channels. As I have also explained, I have been following an agile approach, trying to get the opinion of the potential interested parties right away.

That is why we have published the value proposal, and our ideas in the media, as we do, from CTOs of large companies to developers of our LATAM ecosystems.

Also remember that the times each project handles it differently. We are in interesting times and there are external factors such as Covid 19 that impact on planning.
It is not a question of sooner or later, but of doing it at the right time.

And that can be, after a milestone, a meeting, the securing of a support.
We are aligned with our planning and that is what is important

For all we know, to think the negatively possible way, there could be only one person in this team, who tried to scam by pretending they're 10 different people working together. No evidence to support your statement of 10 people, no pictures, no background to trace back, and conveniently, they're also refuse to share their face because they don't feel comfortable with that. One "we are not scam" statement doesn't help.

It could be but it isn't.
Again, let me emphasize that we are presenting Stashware's technology solution, its advances and improvements to other solutions, whether pre-existing or under development, within the decentralized storage ecosystem.

Publishing the Technical Whitepaper and the system of economy that will govern the network, and reward the miners and with which users will pay for the services of secure and private decentralized storage.
We have not launched any ICO, STO, IEO or asked for any investment, we do not have an announcement to buy the tokens at this point.  Nor are we collecting user information with any newsletter. We are developing the solution with our resources.

So there is no place to use the word Scam associated with Stashware no matter how much doubt you have about the current information available about the project.
You may have doubts, but let us have the benefit of the doubt until you see a buy from us ad.

We are more focused on discussing ideas, getting feedback from the people in the forum, and seeing the interest in the Decentralized Storage Networking trend.
For example your contributions are very interesting. And that is what we are searching for. We want the code and ideas to speak for the project, not our faces.

If you are interested, I have no problem connecting with you on linkedin. For me it will be a real pleasure.

I say again, and you know this very well, that reputation is everything, and that entering into an exchange or getting a positive review is not achieved if you don't give true and relevant information. Nor if your solution has no value or is not backed by expert people.
Besides, we know that one of our weaknesses in this forum is the lack of seniority.
We had to create fresh newly users like mine. We have had to create our users and they are brand new.
And a newly created group of accounts in a thread is not going to give much more confidence either.

As I have pointed out. What we are interested in is to show our network working. The latest versions of code in production are stable and with great performance.
The team is going to start releasing code more frequently to public repositories.
We will also change and improve the corporate image including logo redesign. To start improving communication and adding banners and better diagrams to spread better messages in our social channels.
We are in the process of implementing the faucet additionally.

Our goal is to show not to sell.

But as I said before we are moving forward to improve those details.

Well, interesting conversation the one building up here.

But hey, based on what bjlanza just said. Let's wait and see. If this project is not on the hunt of getting money for their ICO, or trying to get people to buy their token on uniswap, or some scammy stuff like that, then I'll just keep checking their info as it comes out, and make my own opinion. I mean, I'm glad they are posting stuff here, and not just going directly to pay some youtuber to shill their coin...

With that being said, Miiike's idea about legacy keys for unexpected situations seem like a real good suggestion. I hope the team will reconsider that as part of core functions.

I'll keep my eye on this.

And so far, there's almost nothing to show. Team has no face, product is lacking of (arguably) important features, and judging from how quiet this thread is, you also has little to zero interested people.

I still think putting name on faces is crucial. But as you refuses for whatever reason, I'd like to suggest a group photo with company brand visible. That way, you showed us your team but they're not necessarily needed to be identified individually.

Talking about security

We started a series of post about the Technological concepts in Stashware.

Stashware is based on a multitude of innovative, revolutionary and disruptive technologies. In our Medium channel, we explain each one of them so that you can better understand what our decentralized storage platform is based on

Today we start with the deduplication. How to replicate the data so that it is safe but without duplicating things unnecessarily.

https://medium.com/@stashware/secure-deduplication-a9e6b24d86f0

To start answering some of the questions, we begin by sharing where the people who develop Stashware are from.
As a good decentralized project, the members that make up Stashware are in different parts of the world, especially Latin America, Spain and other parts of Europe.
So a large part of the team complies with the social distance ;)

From Northwest Spain we focus on building a large and happy community for our users. As we know how important is storage our history and lives.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/70071752/93150990-e1df8300-f6fa-11ea-8954-fc13d20ba25d.jpg

We continue to give small sketches of our team. In this case Stashware is also developed from another part of the Spanish northwest in this case closer to the Atlantic Ocean. The Basque Country is a reference in innovation and technology, especially in cyber-security, industry and blockchain issues. Fundamental and essential elements in the dna of this project.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/70071752/93281061-9052f900-f7cb-11ea-8e21-f2049829e3fc.jpg

Stashware is a mostly Latin American project where the talent from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean come together to develop this decentralized storage platform.
One of our main developers is in the land of tango and mate. Argentina is one of the most vibrant blockchain ecosystems in Latin America.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/70071752/93405898-965dde00-f88e-11ea-9fa7-ddd29fc6ad66.jpg

By the way, if those pictures are your effort to show credibility as a "proof of team profile", it didn't work. A hand and a written piece of paper is not face, and in this world no face means your project is questionable until proven otherwise.

Anyway, I'm here today to ask about how will you encourage token consumption.

It is a question of philosophy. You are an investor, we are developers.
That the photos have no identifiable value, of course :). But first they serve to show that you are not a one-man team. And that we are a team distributed all over the world. And that that group photo is difficult to take and even more so in these times of social distance.
In the end it depends on the answer of each one to the question that is blockchain for you. A way to create an ICO and raise funds or create a decentralised solution that improves a use case and gives people more power and freedom.

Faces have never mattered more than the code or the solutions working in this field. This whole revolution was created by someone who wanted to remain anonymous until he wanted to. Pseudo-anonymity or the search for ownership of your own information is a basic and fundamental philosophy.

It is also ironic, because when you have a hit, a good content, it doesn't matter what your name is. Many times one face is not the producer. And I think we have all seen many projects with many beautiful faces that did nothing in the ICO fever in 2017-2018.

And again, Stashware does not currently have an open ICO, STO, IEO. I personally am more confident about a good code documented in a repository. Than just a whitepaper signed by a face that is not one of the big ones. And to see that a project at the end its development team is outsourced or a fork varying a bit previous solutions. A Mockup is not a product. But that will be developer's stuff. We are weird and strange people.


Regarding your question about token consumption. I hope I understand you well.

SWR tokens are used in two ways as Proof of Stake, miners need multiples of 16,000 tokens to be selected to verify transactions.

And the token is used as a form of payment to save the data. You pay to store permanently and to access data permanently

Stashware Storage Price                GB   SWR
Permanent Deposit Price                 1   0.4
Permanent Withdrawal Price         1   0.4
Tx fee                                         1   20% (of total cost)

It's not a question of philosophy, really. I was asking practical question.

One can argue that you can simply ask some friends of yours to "hey, write this on paper, take a pic with famous object on the background, I'll pay you xxx USD".

Meanwhile (as topic about team is rather endless), replying your answer of token consumption, what I wanted to know is your plan to encourage repetitive consumption. How will you encourage someone to spend SWR (or using your program) weekly or monthly or annually

Great to see that the members are located in different pasts of the world :-). By the way, i now this place....really tasty "Tapas" in the Humedo.

Oh yes, the Basque Country is an industrial region that has cleared a major competitive path towards innovation. With its prime commitment to R&D and the development of talent, and its unique connection to Europe and the world, the Basque Country is the place in which to invest and live. ;)

https://bind40.com/basque-country-industrial-ecosystem/

Many market studies implies that the market size and use of cloud storage solutions is going to increase by 2 numbers each year.

2 Examples:
The global cloud storage market size is projected to grow from USD 50.1 billion in 2020 to USD 137.3 billion by 2025, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 22.3% during the forecast period.

The cloud storage market size was valued at $46.12 billion in 2019, and is projected to reach $222.25 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 21.9% from 2020 to 2027.

Apart classic Blockchains are not designed for data storage. But Web 3.0 needs this feature and many use cases rely on storage. That is why decentralized storage solutions / networks started to appear at the ecosystem.
People are continually creating huge amounts of data, and much of it needs to be kept for long periods of time, in a secure and private way


Storage pricing rivets
USDT, lower prices over time (Moore’s Law of Hardware). Assume that 1SWR=1USD.
Starting from 2020, pGB = 0.002 USD/GB/year;

Deposit and Withdrawal fee
= Permanent Deposit fee+Permanent Withdrawal fee+Tx fee
= 0.4 SWR + 0.4 SWR + 0.04 SWR = 0.84 SWR/GB

We think that for much less than 1$ have 1 GB of data storaged permanent in a decentralized system is a great price. With an easy a secure system to manage the files users will trust the system.
This is more aimed to permanent solutions like backups that and online sync system like One Drive.

Personally, I don't think it's good to charge the platform usage fee with tokens.
This is because token prices are constantly changing in the market and there is too much difference in their range.
Many utility tokens have the same pattern.

Hi Folks we had a busy week. We are finishing a new build with nice improvements of our testnet and wallet. But until then we wanted to share a little screenshot of the previous branch.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/70071752/94878482-d790e900-045d-11eb-9663-997403f47731.png

As we think that is vert interesting to see the improvements, changes and fixes we develop.

This is our wallet that is build with node js and vue.

Also for the weekend we continue with some of our mysterious team photos.

Happy October 12th, today is Columbus Day.

As you may know, Stashware is a project with a great connection to the Spanish and Latin American community, not only because the great majority of the team is from that community.
It is a project with great care and attention to this community.

Therefore we want to celebrate the bonds that unite us to make a better and more decentralized world.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/70071752/95789049-12f0aa80-0cdd-11eb-9006-7d1150bf57f1.png

Greetings to everyone
Due to the impact of the second wave of the coronavirus in Europe, with greater restrictions on mobility and meetings, we have had to adapt some of our processes by first ensuring the health of the entire team. Fortunately, it has not impacted on the project or our health.

All these problems caused by the pandemic, have only made us not only redouble our efforts but also our resolution on the need for distributed solutions that improve the resilience of society.

Including distributed storage networks such as Stashware where data is securely and permanently available. Whether it is for work, backup or remembrance, storing all our digital life.
Remember that our latest version is 0.8.1. with the latest bug fixes

And a new wallet with new functionalities.

Visit our repository at https://github.com/stashware/stashware

Do you not make discord or telegram ch?
I think it is essential because you can interact with many people.

Yes, it is important and currently many communities are successfully managed in this way that offers immediacy, both for ads and for interacting with users.

We have created channels on several networks, including Discord and Slack. But in order not to duplicate efforts we focused on Telegram.

You can join using the link:
https://t.me/stashware (English)
https://t.me/stashwareES (Spanish)


Also again remind you another useful contact info.

• Where to find us
Medium: Stashware.medium.com
Reddit: reddit.com/r/stashware
Twitter: twitter.com/stashwarenet

The Stashware team wishes you a Merry Christmas, a prosperous New Year, where all your wishes in health and wealth are fulfilled.

We continue to work to provide the best secure decentralised storage solution for a new economy.
And soon we will give you our planning for this first quarter of 2021

The Stashware team would like to wish you a happy 2021, free of problems and complications. And above all with good health for you and your families.
We continue to work towards completing the proposed goals for this first half of 2021 for the most complete decentralized storage solution with the best privacy and security features.