[ANN] Storj - Decentralized Storage

[super3]

The problem I haven’t been able to solve is privacy vs deduplication. You’ll likely end up with thousands or even millions of copies of the exact same file, so it would be efficient in terms of both speed and resource management to reduce the number of copies, and use pointers to files (or chunks in this case).

I believe this problem is already solved in Tahoe-LAFS.

I'll have to read more on them in. We were planning to integrate Tahoe-LAFS at a point, but if they solved the duplication portion we can integrate them directly after MaidSafe.

[irritant]

about proof of resource, do you get more reward if you have the resources on a fail safe proof solution, instead of RAID0?

[super3]

about proof of resource, do you get more reward if you have the resources on a fail safe proof solution, instead of RAID0?

Nodes can advertise that they have physical redundancy, but the algorithms can not verify physical redundancy so it will not be included as a reward.

If you are running as a node I would recommend that you run them as single drives. Without doing any calculations (I'll run numbers at some point), I figure that the profit lost from using a drive for RAID redundancy will be more than profit lost from refilling a new drive with data(provided you have a fast enough connection). For slow connection I would indeed recommend a RAID setup for drive failures.

Failure is on the side of the hoster not the user. If your drives fail you will just loose out on a decent bit of profit, as you try to fill them back up. The end user is unaffected, their file redundancy will be automatically restored at the next check in.

[seef]

Any Updates?

[super3]

Any Updates?

Been running around with housekeeping and interviews. Preparing documents and plans for the crowdsale and prototype coin.

Interesting development can up a few days ago. Cancer researcher contacted us that was having problems moving around their data for collaboration. Our prototype software should be able to handle this just fine, we just need to clean up some things. So will focus on getting this tailored to them, as a good test and use case. More updates on that later.

[super3]

So I created a skype chat for those who want to get involved or learn a little bit more directly from me and the team. Add my on skype: super3b, and then just ask me to add you.

[super3]

Interface improvements:

[U]

Interface improvements:

Will it works like eMule?

[super3]

eMule was a bit before my time. Looking at the features some things look similar.

[qbd1313]

eMule was a bit before my time. Looking at the features some things look similar.

emule is slow
why I need a Decentralized Storage？
I think dropbox is fast,dropbox is enough.

[super3]

eMule was a bit before my time. Looking at the features some things look similar.

emule is slow
why I need a Decentralized Storage？
I think dropbox is fast,dropbox is enough.

They overcharge 100x what they pay, and the read all your files. Would you store your Bitcoin wallet on Dropbox? I'd rather store my files somewhere safe. Storj should be way faster than Dropbox.

[super3]

If any python or web developers are interested in working with us, just shoot me a PM.

[crimealone]

Hi, super3, is there any plan? When will this project be launched?

[super3]

Hi, super3, is there any plan? When will this project be launched?

So this is what it looks like as of today:


In the next few days we will be adding in our encryption module and payment module. At that point the web software will be usable and we can start making some announcements. So soon^tm.

[Ge]

Great project but it can be better than the freenet speed, because this is one exemple of node using but it isn't really fast

[super3]

Great project but it can be better than the freenet speed, because this is one exemple of node using but it isn't really fast

Oh its fast as lightning. Some of our nodes will support up to 1 Gb/s, so unless you have Google Fiber its your end that is going to be the slow down.

[DiamondCardz]

Up to 1 GB/s? Sounds impressive. The design screenshots so far have been pretty sleek and I approve of any project which promotes decentralization, so keep up the good work and show us more updates as soon as you can!

[super3]

Up to 1 GB/s? Sounds impressive. The design screenshots so far have been pretty sleek and I approve of any project which promotes decentralization, so keep up the good work and show us more updates as soon as you can!

Yeah, basically once a node has file in cache it can deliver it to you directly. On our prototype software you buy bandwidth from the nodes. So the node has every incentive to get that file to you as fast as possible. Its just like if you were started offering seeders money on BitTorrent. They should be shoving and pushing to get you your data and claim the reward.

[logxing]

It looks good.

[super3]

Little screenshot of the new website in progress: