But this IS a core feature. Your selling point is a service that allows people feel safe to keep their data without the fear of being lost (hence, cloud) or stolen (hence, a third party security system). How would they feel secure if there were no failsafe for the case of the unexpected? I don't think this is an additional feature.
Of course, we can rule this unfortunate event as a team's poor judgement or something that team failed to see. But, this leads to the second thing that pique my interest the second I study your project: team details.
Certainly you didn't plan to offer a data securing service without telling your clients who are the people behind the screen, right?
Miiike we can agree that this feature is important, by providing a security mechanism that facilitates that data does not become unreadable. And this allows people less versed to access this type of technology.
But we disagree that this is a core feature and disagree that this is due to poor judgment by the development team.
We are precisely in a bitcoin forum where value is transmitted, without that safeguard mechanism, when keys are lost or tokens are sent to the wrong address they are lost.
And we are talking about elements with a lot of value.
Nor do I think that similar solutions within the spectrum of decentralized storage solutions such as Sia, Storj, Arweave, Filecoin ... have incorporated such a feature since the launch. I do not know personally as it is difficult to know each solution in great depth if any incorporates it at present.
The priority of the development team is to create a secure network, and that the mechanism of consensus works, distributing the information through the nodes, with all the other challenges of speed and performance. The primary and most important thing is that the network works and that the wallet is integrated.
If this reduces the spectrum of users to those who are aware of the importance of managing their keys in situations of disability and death. We will work efficiently to expand that spectrum. But most cryptoeconomics projects do not have these safeguards at the beginning.
Your keys are your responsibility.
As we have commented throughout this thread, and with the help of your contributions and questions. Implementing this feature implies a detailed analysis of the possible solutions. To ensure as much as possible the privacy and security of the data. Some solutions involve providing data, that data like a phone number can be used all over the world, we perform biometric data hashes? In the end it is the trio of something that the user knows, something that he owns, and something that he is. Sometimes you can add something where he is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication And that doesn't solve the problem if the user doesn't share his data if he suffers a disability. It's not a trivial issue. It's a big mouthful that has to be chewed and swallowed and deserves its own space to be raised and developed when the network is working.
I'm sorry that we didn't meet the needs of a perfect solution from the launch, but we are working on it. But reaching perfection is not going to prevent us from first releasing a solution that works perfectly.