Quote from: PinkHead on October 12, 2017, 12:33:12 PM

Good afternoon. I have a question. I can be a natural person (not a legal entity) being a supplier of a storage facility and getting a reward for it? ( page №5 of white paper "Storage provider rewards")

Exactly, anyone can provide storage and get a reward for the service in return.

Edit: For the record:

Quote from: Quill_DigiPulse on October 06, 2017, 08:50:28 AM

Quote from: ogrudko on October 06, 2017, 05:54:15 AM

Dear team, in whitepaper you mentioned that user will have up to 1Gb of data storage space in his smart vault. What initial capacity of storage system do you plan? It will be organized on your hardware or another way? How it will be secured and resistant to malfunctions? Will blockhain keep cyphered keys to these vaults, but not the vaults themseves?

The initial capacity depends on the total users that will host their drive space. Initially, we'll setup our own clusters to support the network during the first weeks, thus space can be added by running another host. This can be done very quickly. The goal is that the network is supported by DigiPulse hosts, that get payed (receive rewards) for hosting data. Malfunctions are avoid by using mirrors of every file, so even a 50% fallout of hosts would still make it possible to recover the files. (A handful of hosts receive the full shredded parts, all others receive minor mirrored parts of the files). Depending on the setup the user selects to release the vault, the blockchain will keep AES-256-CBC encrypted keys. The vaults themselves are also AES-256 encoded, and the user can choose to encrypt the files he uploads as well.

Quote from: dzonikg28 on October 06, 2017, 11:22:22 AM

Quote from: ogrudko on October 06, 2017, 11:14:01 AM

Quote from: Quill_DigiPulse on October 06, 2017, 08:50:28 AM

The goal is that the network is supported by DigiPulse hosts, that get payed (receive rewards) for hosting data.

Thank you for answer. When do you plan to invite such outer hosts to your blockchain? These hosts will be corporate' scale? Or separate desktops will also take part with fair reward?

As stated in the white paper, anyone can participate and provide storage space. They make use of the architecture that can also be found in Storj, and that project is not specifically aiming at corporate participants. The whole point of healthy decentralization when it comes to file storage is to let everyone participate.