A project which grabbed my attention several years ago was SIA, a blockchain based decentralised storage platform.
It interested me because it uses blockchain based incentives and technology to fill a need, a rather complex need that private companies have been monopolising and controlling in recent years.
How is this project doing?
- Fairly good Geographical distribution
- There seems to be quite a few hosts
Usage and Storage Capacity is increasing quite rapidly
Crucially Storage Costs are just $3 per TB which compares to about $23 for Amazon S3 storage.
How easy is it to use?
Well it has a fairly standard Crypto Wallet and Software that needs private keys and seeds etc and takes forever to synch with the blockchain but it also has a more user friendly app ecosystem that seems really easy to use with 234 apps listed.
I still havent quite figured it out but the apps seem easy to use and there is even one that lets you created a decentralised distributed blog in a few clicks.
Have you tried Sia? What are your thoughts?
I am going to be trying it out over the coming weeks and if I find some interesting stuff I will write about it.