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General Discussion / Re: Can Bitshares Web wallets make use of SAFE Network or Storj for server storage?
« on: September 29, 2015, 08:38:50 pm »
I like the concept of allowing people to store data on some peers, and letting the market decide the rate at which the storage costs. This is in contrast to storing on chain or in the cloud, both of which are inefficient or undesired in the later case.
Redundancy becomes a major issue so I'd like to hear about this new idea of using delegates perhaps as redundant data servers incase peers shutdown and data "shards" need to be reconstructed.
Perhaps the best first step would be to use all delegates to offer their VPS storage capacities (which they probaly arent using unless its the chain folder) to offer free storage services for something like maidsafe or storj... then people can store data via delegate "shards" and it will be limited to the storage capacity of the delegates. If market desires more data then more delegates can be voted in with bigger storage capacity.. creating a secondary market for delegates other than what we have now. Now we have free storage which delegates are paid for, funded by the blockchain and an added incentive for new delegates to stand up with bigger storage facilities, making a profit aslong as their storage costs < delegate pay. We need to leverage the server machines as much as possible and create value added services such as this. Perhaps a revenue generation model would be to buy more space than is available or add extra redundancy for X amount of bts per day or something.
Redundancy becomes a major issue so I'd like to hear about this new idea of using delegates perhaps as redundant data servers incase peers shutdown and data "shards" need to be reconstructed.
Perhaps the best first step would be to use all delegates to offer their VPS storage capacities (which they probaly arent using unless its the chain folder) to offer free storage services for something like maidsafe or storj... then people can store data via delegate "shards" and it will be limited to the storage capacity of the delegates. If market desires more data then more delegates can be voted in with bigger storage capacity.. creating a secondary market for delegates other than what we have now. Now we have free storage which delegates are paid for, funded by the blockchain and an added incentive for new delegates to stand up with bigger storage facilities, making a profit aslong as their storage costs < delegate pay. We need to leverage the server machines as much as possible and create value added services such as this. Perhaps a revenue generation model would be to buy more space than is available or add extra redundancy for X amount of bts per day or something.