I've been really digging into cryptos lately trying to find a solution to the youtube mess which is what brought me here. Steem obviously has a bright future but let's not stop at just replacing youtube. Since we clearly can't trust these big tech companies why rely on them to store our personal data in their cloud?
Siacoin offers private data storage. The data is encrypted by the miners and anyone with some extra hard drive space can lease it out if they're willing to purchase some sia coin for collateral to ensure they will keep their storage available for at least 12 weeks.
I recently put up 1TB on my dedicated server to try it out and maybe make a coin or two. I can't say the experience was "easy." I don't know when or if Sia will ever be integrated into operating systems to look like just another folder. In the mean time I'll continue to explore more crypto technologies because it's interesting and fun.