Quote from: Porfirii on June 07, 2017, 02:24:12 PM

Quote from: Laje on June 07, 2017, 11:41:18 AM

Quote from: SonicBoomerang on June 07, 2017, 11:15:38 AM

sc looks really promising, but i'm concerned companies like Google have cloud storage on a mass scale in the bag (and probably already creating something like this in the background), could this be a genuine contender for mass adoption or is it more specialist?

In my opinion, if Google is the reference in internet it have to think if it need to buy (or invest) in crypto/decentralized projects.
Maybe it has done. Now All projects are small and recent. Time to time.

Google's business model consists in offering cheap or even "free" services in exchange of your data.

Imho the concept of a decentralised cloud secured by blockchain goes against the very fundamentals of its model. A project like Sia can be a game changer in the business of Cloud, just like the way Google's model was disruptive for directories years ago.

Blockchain technology enables not just a cheaper, more efficient way to perform tasks but it also can ensure privacy, if the customer is concerned about it and choses wisely.

Some New Member just posted the following before deleting it; I'm copying it so the image can be seen.

https://i.imgur.com/mYFgpHZ.jpg

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sia-takes-cloud-giants-blockchain-based-decentralised-storage-1625126

Well, it's a problem we do not know what will happen. Some countries censor some websites or cut connections in some cases.
Maybe with decentraliced apps, some goverments will want to regulate or censor.
Today, it seems that it is possible to know what you are doing with your computer, and we know that Tor is not infallible (for example).

Today this amazing technology can be used for great things and for worst things.
Today we are reading and listening to news like this: http://www.bbc.com/news/election-2017-40181444

I think that centralized companies and goverments that want to control our data are thinking about how to control this technology. We are in fornt of the doors of a new way to perceive and understand the economic / social world, and lobbies are waiting to bit their part of cake, in form of money or accessing in our privacity.

Sorry for the brick :p
It's an idea about when I wrote that centralized big companies maybe buy or invest in decentralized technology.