On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 at 22:49, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I had a look at various decentralized backup solutions recently, and sia > (https://sia.tech) looks promising. > > It's based on the sia blockchain, storage contracts are smart contracts > that are to be paid in siacoin*. The data itself is not stored in any > blockchain. > Hosters offer storage capacity with a certain uptime guarantee and get > paid in siacoin if they fulfill the contract - and pay a collateral if > they don't. > > Sia is integrated in some other products (e.g. Nextcloud, Minebox) and > it's in the Debian repositories, so it's rather advanced: 4.5PB > available with 207TB currently used - storage space is really cheap > right now ($2/month for 1TB). > There are some nice features like contract renewal or automatic file > repair when hosters go offline. > > Downside / possible problems: > FreedomBox users would have to buy siacoin to use it. Also being a > hoster requires having siacoins first to provide some money as > collateral for the smart contracts. Earning siacoin could then still be > difficult because FreedomBoxes might not have a huge storage capacity or > reliable uptime. > And there could be security issues in the smart contracts, or value > fluctuation of siacoin. > There are many similar blockchain based projects but all of them are in > earlier stages. One where you don't have to buy coins before offering > storage space would be ideal. > > The main advantage over TAHOE-LAFS is that users wouldn't have to take > care about creating and organizing a storage grid themselves, which I > imagine to be quite hard for many users. > > What other / better solutions are there for decentralized backups? >
filecoin, maidsafe, storj are in that space i would prefer to use web servers, tho, and other freedomboxes in your network > > Cheers, > fonfon > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
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