Caratteristiche Principali
Storj è un progetto software che cerca di sviluppare una soluzione di cloud storage di prossima generazione che migliora sui fornitori di cloud storage esistenti in quattro aree chiave del servizio fornito.

Meno costoso per lo stesso standard di ridondanza del settore, uptime e affidabilità;
Preferibilmente crittografia client-side e hashing eseguite automaticamente prima di caricare in modo che tutti i dati sulla rete Storj siano crittografati e anonimi;
Codice open source rilasciato sotto la licenza MIT;
Decentralizzato, autonomo e implementa più blockchains rendendolo così resistente alle interruzioni di servizio e a rischi di sicurezza.

Un obiettivo chiave di sviluppo del progetto è per Storj di includere uno schema token a duplice scopo basato su blockchain, che funge da:

1. Un meccanismo di incentivo all'interno della rete Storj tra consumatori e fornitori di storage e bandwidth
2. Un meccanismo di storage delle informazioni per registrare l'hash e la posizione di archivio dei file memorizzati nella rete Storj.

Storj ha vinto il primo posto all’ Hackathon della Texas Bitcoin Conference 2014, con decisione unanime. Il premio è una donazione di $250000 garantiti dai sostenitori di BitAngels per il loro primo giro di "Kickstarter-style" crowdfunding che sarà presto annunciato. I membri del team di Storj Shawn Wilkinson e James Lowry hanno fatto la finale presentazione in programma al concorso, che comprendeva un software demo del proof of concept funzionante. Gli sviluppatori e fondatori stanno preparando il software alpha per il rilascio testing generale e facendo gli ultimi ritocchi alla whitepaper e al crowdfunding.

Storj è un proposto sistema di storage decentralizzato che cerca di disgregare l'industria cloud storage, abbassando drasticamente i costi per gli utenti privati di cloud storage. Farebbe questo pagando incentivi ai fornitori di storage nella forma di un "uno schema token a duplice scopo basato su blockchain" che memorizza inoltre informazioni sull'integrità dei files e la posizione di archivio. La rete Storj sara in grado di emanare, raccogliere e distribuire questi gettoni autonomamente in modo che gli utenti possano pagare per lo storage ed essere pagati per la fornitura di storage. Tutti i dati saranno criptati, preferibilmente client-side, prima di essere caricati sul network. Noi crediamo che per gli utenti Storj dovrebbe semplicemente essere un meccanismo di storage dei propri dati così che l'utente finale abbia il controllo sui propri dati e privacy.

Nodi Web
Alla Texas Bitcoin Conference 2014 abbiamo debuttato un proof of concept di nodo web per Storj. Sin da allora abbiamo continuato a raffinare lo stesso software. È possibile caricare i tuoi files su questi nodi web e dopo circa 10 minuti i tuoi files diventano accessibili da tutto il network. Ciò non richiede alcun server centrale. Qualsiasi nodo web si collega al prototipo blockchain e può caricare e scaricare files a costi molto ridotti. Questo software sarà reso disponibile ai primi finanziatori e sostenitori.

Nuovo Cryptocurrency
La maggior parte delle cryptocurrencies usano la blockchain come un libro mastro dei bilanci delle monete. Vorremmo inoltre utilizzare la blockchain per memorizzare informazioni sull’ integrità dei files e posizione di archivio tramite metadati strutturati. A tal fine rilasceremo dettagli su una nuova cryptocurrency che ci permetterà di realizzare ciò e inoltre di lanciare il nostro network immediatamente con l'aiuto dei nostri nodi web. Per cui includeremo questa nuova cryptocurrency come parte del nostro modello di crowdfunding.

Whitepapers
Molti di voi sono affamati di dettagli tecnici. Abbiamo ricevuto ottimi riscontri tecnici e concettuali da Maidsafe e BitAngels. Siamo nel processo di riscrittura della whitepaper iniziale e stiamo finalizzando i dettagli del crowdfunding e dei tempi di esecuzione.

Rinraziamenti Speciali
BitAngels, esp. David Johnston and Jeremy Kandah - Per il vostro continuo input e supporto.
Jeff Garzik (jgarzik) - Per aiuto tecnico e concetto.
Gregory Maxwell (gmaxwell) - Per il concetto iniziale e la thread di discussione del seed.
Maidsafe, esp. David Irvine and Nick Lambert - Hackathon input, mentoring e continua sinergia concettuale.
Mastercoin Foundation - Hackathon supporto, input e mentoring.

Exchanges
https://counterwallet.co
https://poloniex.com/exchange/btc_sjcx
https://www.melotic.com/markets/sjcx-btc
https://masterxchange.com/market.php?currency=xcpsjcx

Link Utili
http://storj.io (Sito Ufficiale)
http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=555159.0; (Thread BitcoinTalk Ufficiale)
http://storj.io/crowdsale.html (Crowdsale Live!)
http://storjtalk.org/index.php (Forum Ufficiale)
http://storjtalk.org/index.php?topic=1437.0 (Traduzione Italiana sul Forum Ufficiale)
http://metadisk.org/ (Metadisk Website e Registrazione Beta)

Social Media
https://www.facebook.com/storjproject
https://www.facebook.com/metadisk
https://twitter.com/storjproject
https://twitter.com/metadisk
http://www.reddit.com/r/storj/
https://plus.google.com/u/2/+StorjIo2014/

Video
http://youtu.be/vl3bUzfn2lg (Storj: Decentralizing Cloud Storage)
http://youtu.be/LIf5QsYrCb0 (Storj - Proof of Storage - Hash Challenges)
http://youtu.be/nO-fZgsovgI (Storj BitAngels Presentation)
http://youtu.be/RmMIMtbBnA8 (Metadisk - by Storj)
http://youtu.be/Jl0e-eMhVyE (Storj Crowdsale and Project Discussion with Shawn Wilkinson)

I'm in too! Like the idea so just got some StorjX! Hope we will eventually get a wallet client for the coins.

Is there a wallet to store StorJ Coins locally? Do they need to be kept on Counterwallet?

I keep voting on Mintpal, we got to be added by Sept! 

I love your responses "Skycoin" they could all be bound together in a well informative book!

Mesh Networks are a great way to decentralise everything, just need to get them to grow steadily although the infrastructure relies heavily on users' own funds and expertise. But I see the start will be over IPV4, which makes sense for the network to grow quickly. Looking forward to it.

These sort of projects take a long time, look at Ethereum, BitShares, MaidSafe, etc. There seems to be a lot of projects (including Skycoin) that are trying to solve as much as they can within their own project boundaries. There are a lot of great minds hard at work at the moment, all for different "brand/project names" with missions at times impossible to complete with their own resources. Can you imagine if one or more of the above projects would start to cooperate with each other and share code, resources, ideas and implement things together? Now that would be something!

Of course all of the current projects sound like they will be Open Source so I'm confident that many of their products/services will be able to at least interact with each other and even work in unison. I see there will eventually be the need for some sort of standard bits of code/APIs which (pardon my ignorance) will allow for multiple projects to work with each other. With too many projects with such great ambitions, how will the rest of us be able to choose which one is best or even where to start?

On another note I have a feeling that Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft and the likes are closely observing the Bitcoin 2.0 movement and learning about it. Open Source is like "patents for some Asian manufacturers" = copycats. So what stops the big blues above from making their own versions of some of the projects, give them a nice user friendly GUI, integrate them with their existing successful products and get instant and broad user adoption? Considering their huge development and funding resources I don't think this scenario is too far from a near future reality. Even though they may not be as privacy concerned as the Bitcoin 2.0 projects are, they may take off just because they are easy to use for the masses. Usability is something to keep well in mind when thinking of mass adoption potential.    
 
Nevertheless, I support Skycoin and everyone else who can come up with a way to better privacy, personal finance, communications, exchange of goods and services and so on. People like the above will make a difference in the near future for the rest of us. Give it time, a revolution is just beginning! Just hope for all them projects not to get exploited by the current status quo.

 

Interesting update, these challenges are the base to decentralisation:

QUOTE:
In particular
- how do you quickly find efficient routes when addresses are non-topological?
- how do you quickly find efficient routes in a fully decentralized manner?
- how do you set up routes between N nodes without incuring the round trip latency between each node in chain?
- how do you deal with nodes with rapidly changing multipath connectivity (mobile-ad hoc routing)

Hope with time the Skycoin Dev Team can find an optimal solution to them.
Also hope that someone out there would cooperate or help in solving them.

Maybe starting with a website where all the info about Skycoin, Meshnet, etc is available is one place?
I know most info is on GitHub but I think an easy to read site would be more popular and attract more views and potential interest from knowledgeable people/organisations that could help reaching the final goal.  

Thanks for the update, my gosh how much work there is! 

Dear FlappySocks, if you are the UK reseller, could you please send an update email to your customers like when you went to China to see BA?
When do you expect the orders to be delivered? What options do we have? Do we get 3TH's as promised by BA? Chips instead of miners? Power Supply included with compensation unit? Are you able to offer refunds like MS is doing?
That would be nice.

What happened to the megacoin.co.nz website? It says account suspended?
Only forum.megacoin.co.nz seems to be working.

Good things come to those who wait... 

Thanks for the news, and well done in solving the issue with the backplane. Will batch 2 customers also get some compensation seen the delay?
That would be fair.

Now if you guys can pull this off... this could be the beginning of a new computing era.
I was avidly reading your last update and I'm impressed with the plans for the future of Skycoin.

All the points made about security of current software and hardware solutions are valid and yes, scary!
Secure and private communications are a hot topic nowadays and the possibility that this project will strive to come up with effective solutions makes me want to support it even more!

I'm no coding expert nor an electronic engineer but I know a thing or 2 about OSs, Mobile Devices, Routers and Antennas.

I would love to become a meshnet node and provide a setup with antenna or multiple ones. I'm in London, UK and have quite a few friends who will be interested to help to. Any chance there will be some step by step instructions on how to set the nodes up? I've seen a post on this thread on best antennas but little info on how to set up a node. Anymore info/instructions Skycoin can share would be appreciated as I want to be ready when this project goes live and be part of "the revolution". Thanks in advance.    

+1 Good work!

Thanks for the update! 

Looking with interest... Any new updates from Skycoin Dev?

Someone needs to step in as the new Dev to make this coin progress.

I want in the beta too. Can test on Mac & Win.

I got a refund from Alpha-T for my order (paid in January) on PayPal the other day, half the deposit - £70 handling fee.
I rather that than wasting another £5000 on a miner that may or may not get you much money.
If I would invest that £5000 in BTC today I will most definitely make a much better return than going ahead with my order.
 

Will there be compensation offered for batch 2 customers too?