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What more do you want? BURST already has more built in features than any online banking out there.
this:
The Burst dev needs to convert Burst network into decentralized dropbox ASAP, when users would pay for distributed encrypted storing of their files with BURST coins. This is the only way for Burst to survive.
Have you looked to this :
http://storj.io/ ??
what i hope the difference between burst data storage and storj.io is we are using pay
by data usage instead of storj's pay for
disk space, so storing small files would be relatively very cheap, this way the burst node network can evolve into CDN serving nodes other than file storage
the hardest thing to design that is that you have to rely that there are some data copies available whenever you want to access them.
the best would be to be able to book a certain amount of bandwidth plus a guaranteed period of time plus a specified number of copies whenever you put a storage object into the network. compared to dropbox this can be realized by folder attributes.
this concept is a service and no mining except if you add a asset which can only be earned if you put a specific nonce into the storage objects. maybe if you "host" 256mb encrypted data you get allowed to add one nonce for it. these nonces have to have another weight than simple mining nonces. each time you host the file as long as 10% of the booked time you are allowed to add another nonce or the weight of yours get adjusted (similar to the timekoin generator reward). if the period of booked time for the data package has exceeded it can either get renewed and if not the accounts hosted the data can keep their nonces for that package in reverse order (10 month hosted, 20 month additional reward).
technically it is like a huge private torrent network backed by the blockchain (as tracker) and miners.
for me it makes most sense at the moment to add filesharing like an asset.
if you want to store files you require burst to buy this asset. if you only want to host data you receive this asset and can trade it for burst.
this concept utilizes the mining infastructure people have (except the bandwidth usage) to store files but also requires people to pay similar like if the miners use their infastructure for pure mining.
if i say 1 gb local storage may mine 18 burst within a month and i want to have 500 copies of my data i would have to pay 9000 burst for 1 gb cloud storage at the current diff. if you reduce the number of copies to 50 1gb would cost 50 dollarcent at current prices.
if the price stays stable at the current level this calculation would be fine. if the price settles at 2000 satoshi or more anytime soon its a way too expensive to use.
one of the most tricky designs is to make it for the miners similar provitable to host files as to mine. tricky are the redundant copies you require. nobody finally really cares to not loose data blocks on system failures. to prevent and recover this i can think of a infastructure which maintains itself. lets say you have defined periods of time to resync your hosted files or someone else gets them assigned and payed for. also the bandwidth usage is huge. this means if someone mines today with 4 tb he could only upload on average 4gb a day and blocks his line completely. if you factor this in you come to a ratio of how many files can be stored. with todays 4500 miners 18 tb cloudstorage could be realized. if you say you keep 100 copies of the files you end up at about 200gb which every miner stores.
if you try to keep everything in correlation with the block rewards and market prices its hard to predict what will happen to such a service.
i think over time the redundant copies make it much more expensive to use than if you host your data on a dedicated server.
i currently dont know how price structures for data hosting look like but backblaze offers a complete backup for exactly 5 dollar a month.
if i sum everything up this is what a dropbox like burst extension requires:
-you define the number of copies you want to have
-you define the guaranteed bandwidth you can access your files with
-you define how long the files shall be stored
-after the defined time the storage service renews itself based on current market prices for the same time if your balance allows it
-you define who can access it
-miners have to have similar profits wether they store files or use their diskspace for mining (correlation between block reward and diff)
-the network reassigns lost storage slots to other people if a wallet could not be accessed for a certain period of time
-storage may not cost more than regular cloud storage (depends on the number of copies)
