[ANN] Storj - Decentralized Storage

[heunland]

How do you guys plan on competing with pied piper?

And does Storj gonna have a video chat too?

Storj hosts google hangouts periodically to answer user questions. However, there is also a voice-call facility built into slack. So if you sign up to the storj community slack at https://storj.io/community.html you can start a voice call to contact any of the other slack members by DM.

[klbax381]

What the registration at  https://app.storj.io exactly(technically) does? Where it stores reg data (emails, passwords) ?

Registration gives you an account on the bridge which gives you access to lots of push button tools to use the network. You are not required to sign up to use the network, but it's 100x easier though the bridge.

The email and double hashed password (once on client, once on server) get stored in the bridge's database, so whoever is running the bridge server has that information.

So essentially, you have the option to choose a bridge you trust, run your own, or go without (in order of convenience vs privacy).

Ok, Thanks for explanation.

[tobeaj2mer01]

Where can I find the roadmap of Storj?

[heunland]

Where can I find the roadmap of Storj?

Thank you for your interest! You can find the roadmap here

https://waffle.io/Storj/core

If you have specific questions about how to join the next beta round, please join us in the Storj Community Slack 

https://storj.io/community.html

[crazyearner]

Is their going to be a token or coin we can use with this in the future or just cloud storage? Id be interested to know as I like the idea behind this. Surprised not found sooner despite how long it has been around for.

[heunland]

Is their going to be a token or coin we can use with this in the future or just cloud storage? Id be interested to know as I like the idea behind this. Surprised not found sooner despite how long it has been around for.

SJCX is the token that allows you to purchase storage or earn money for renting your free Hard Drive space on the Storj network. SJCX is a Counterparty asset that uses the Bitcoin blockchain for its transactions, and has been in existence since the onset of the project 2 years now. SJCX can be traded on the poloniex and bittrex exchanges, on shapeshift and on my own swapbot here:

https://swapbot.tokenly.com/bot/heunland/sjcxtrader#/choose

[Gumballinabattleaxeninja]

I just did the update that it asked for. I recieved a bunch of errors once I tried to reinstall that I had to keep ignoring. Is that common with the update?

[heunland]

I just did the update that it asked for. I recieved a bunch of errors once I tried to reinstall that I had to keep ignoring. Is that common with the update?

Please join the Storj community slack were we can help you better to troubleshoot your errors.

https://storj.io/community.html (https://storj.io/community.html)

[Blazin8888]

I am expecting huge things for this coin. Def on my watch list as one of the best coins to invest in 2016. My top pics have been STEEM,STORJ,ETH,FCT,XMR

[Arrakeen]

I read on the site that there will be incentives for users holding >1000 storj while 'farming' - how will this work, or is it the same as a masternode? Any open spots for test group c?

[bbc.reporter]

If I were to ask what is better Storj or SIA? What would be your technical explanation why Storj would be better. SIA argues that Storj hosts won't be assured of getting paid by the storage users. Is this true?

[heunland]

I read on the site that there will be incentives for users holding >1000 storj while 'farming' - how will this work, or is it the same as a masternode? Any open spots for test group c?

For Test Group C (TGC), there is no longer a requirement to hold any SJCX in your payout address in order to receive rewards. However, in order to ensure that your nodes will be getting full rewards, you should hold at least 1000 SJCX in your payout address. If you hold none or less than 1000 SJCX, you will still receive rewards, but most likely will not be first in line to win contracts when supply of storage space from farmers on the network exceeds demand from renters.

This has nothing to do with masternodes. SJCX is not a mineable or staking coin. It is a counterparty asset. Farmers will earn rewards in form of SJCX during TGC, but these rewards are distributed from a token reserve that has been set aside for this purpose. No new coins are being created.

If you would like to participate in testing, please go to the webpage at https://storj.io/share.html to download the beta Storj Share software and join the community slack at https://storj.io/community.html for technical support.

[heunland]

If I were to ask what is better Storj or SIA? What would be your technical explanation why Storj would be better. SIA argues that Storj hosts won't be assured of getting paid by the storage users. Is this true?

It up to everyone to decide for themselves which decentralized cloud storage platform they prefer. To help you find out more about how Storj works, please read the latest blog post describing the Storj network:

http://blog.storj.io/post/146711695563/what-is-storj-part-1-of-3-the-storj-network

If you review the section on contracts and audits in the above mentioned blog, you will see the mechanisms that assure that renters pay the farmers for the contracts they have both agreed upon whenever the farmer passes an audit. Payments will be made using Storj´s own micropayment channels technology which allows for extremely small payments that are immediately verifiable and secure, with minimal fees.

More on the Storj micropayments implementation and Counterparty integration can be found here:

http://counterparty.io/news/storj-and-counterparty-partner-to-add-support-for-payment-channels/

Should you require more technical information, feel free to join the slack at https://storj.io/community.html

[Neo501]

Hello,

i want to make an offer for all people which want to join the test group c of the Storj Network.
Test Group C (TGC). TGC will be the first to test real world network conditions, and participants have a chance to get a portion of the rewards totaling 1,000,000 SJCX.

Announcement:
http://blog.storj.io/post/147103128303/storj-test-group-c-is-live

What you get
VPS Service to host the farmer 6 USD (fully payed for one month)
Installation of all needed software to run the farmer 15 USD
Guide and How to manage your farmer 0 UDS

You can upgrade (RAM, SPACE, CPU) your VPS every time you want.

My Price for the first 10 customers:
0.035 BTC or 170 SJCX

What do i need from you?

- your mailaddress for sending you
- your login Data to the VPS
- information for managing your Farmer
- payment of 0.035 BTC or 170 SJCX

Get your farmer today!!!!

You can contact me cointrade2015 (at) gmail.com

[heunland]

Hello,

i want to make an offer for all people which want to join the test group c of the Storj Network.
Test Group C (TGC). TGC will be the first to test real world network conditions, and participants have a chance to get a portion of the rewards totaling 1,000,000 SJCX.

Announcement:
http://blog.storj.io/post/147103128303/storj-test-group-c-is-live

What you get
VPS Service to host the farmer 6 USD (fully payed for one month)
Installation of all needed software to run the farmer 15 USD
Guide and How to manage your farmer 0 UDS

You can upgrade (RAM, SPACE, CPU) your VPS every time you want.

My Price for the first 10 customers:
0.035 BTC or 170 SJCX

What do i need from you?

- your mailaddress for sending you
- your login Data to the VPS
- information for managing your Farmer
- payment of 0.035 BTC or 170 SJCX

Get your farmer today!!!!

Storj Test Group C participants please keep in mind that Storj Labs doesn´t endorse any third party services to help you set up and run your farming nodes or anything else related to Storj testing or running the final release client. Use third party services at your own risk.

[killerjoegreece]

can i share my hdd and get paid using noip (no static ip)?

[mishax1]

can i share my hdd and get paid using noip (no static ip)?

can someone answer me this?

It doesn't matter if your IP is static or not, but I haven't been paid since April..

[heunland]

can i share my hdd and get paid using noip (no static ip)?

can someone answer me this?

If you don't have a static IP you can use a DDNS which will automatically update your IP.

[heunland]

can i share my hdd and get paid using noip (no static ip)?

can someone answer me this?

It doesn't matter if your IP is static or not, but I haven't been paid since April..

you haven't been paid because no beta was running until just about 1 month ago when we started test group C. The first payout in this test group will be disbursed in the beginning of August to the participating farmers.

[mishax1]

Just got my reward for the first two weeks for sharing my 3TB on DriveShare -  0.2293 SJCX , that's about 4600satoshis