I’ve been keeping a close eye over the pandemic regarding decentralised storage.
Not sure where it started, maybe i was APEing at the though of the Obelisk Miner that they were talking about for the SIA chain and i though that was a good passive income stream (these days, that would be helium network for me)
Obelisk began as an ASIC miner producer, shipping over 12,000 units of Siacoin and Decred hardware to thousands of worldwide customers
But yeah, i started to look deeper at sia, the coin and the plans of what they were trying to roll out, fast forward to today and it’s matured a lot since we were all stuck at home in the pandemic, i’d say that a lot of this stuff is ready to roll now.
Originally looking for a better way to store content in a decentralised and encrypted way for use with plex server i’ve kinda side stepped that original desire and dug further into decentralised platforms with a blockchain heart that are really moving in this space.
I feel like we have a great pipeline and toolset that really starts to use the decentralised space in a useful way. I’ve put some links below but if you have fifteen minutes maybe you might wanna give the video a watch too.
Now i’ve got the ability to be able to use my storage using filebase as a frontend for buckets and arq as a backup provider end point for backing up my mac, that’s really useful if i’m going to be in constant transition, just one less external drive to be carrying around with me!
Also, it’s really starting to open up pathways for complete blog decentralisation for my clients. Right now a bunch of them already have the storage solutions in place saving them money to have their images and videos served from sia but the final steps is to take their new decentralised domains and blog frontend into the decentralised cloud too.
Today, we get that one stage closer with a great article for decentralising wordpress.
I feel like a huge amount of existing wordpress clients will go this way before they full commit to a decentralised life, it’s just too much for them to process and they want to do it in stages, they simply don’t have the time to “live” this day in day out to keep up with the pace of change.
They want easy, simple and cheaper, if they can have some additional security and privacy then great but it’s not the first thing they ask about, it’s almost like they expect things to “leak” what with facebook and it’s millions of accounts leaked.
It’s going to be a slow, gradual process, but it is happening.
We have the pandemic to thank for that in many ways because these decentralised communities have really come together to put in the extra leg work to humanise and make ready the backend stay out of the way and bring the “ease of use and simplified” equation to the front.
Are you using decentralized storage platforms yet?
What do you like the best?
Peace
Humble x
https://www.storj.io - recently had a refresh
https://siasky.net — great storage packages
https://d.tube/#!/c/teamhumble — redudancy for video hosting
https://filebase.com — store on storj, siasky or sia (buckets)
https://www.arqbackup.com — backup to decentralised cloud via filebase
https://medium.com/@zJ_/how-to-deploy-a-decentralized-blog-3a5a13a6a827 — decentralising wordpress and using decentralised storage and handshake urls.
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