I like you. Finally someone to challenge some of my assertions.
Understood, but you also have to take into consideration that this is going to be a short lived advantage. And also even though Storj is going to be easier to develop on (at first) Maidsafe is going to have a lot more devs, fascinated with the tech, trying to build apps on top of it.
MaidSafe essentially takes Internet and Bitcoin and upgrades them to Internet 2.0 (secure, decentralized, faster, private) and Bitcoin 2.0 ( anonymous, faster) and then mashes them together. Devs are going to be tripping over themselves to develop on this platform. That is, of course, if the MaidSafe project works as planned.
Well Bitcoin has a much different timescale. 3 months is almost an eternity in Bitcoinland. Why reinvent the wheel when MaidSafe can just plug in to Storj and get an existing userbase? Since we integrate tightly with them we benefit as well. We help them build front end services, and Bitcoin 2.0 integration, while they can focus on the more algorithmic Internet 2.0. I mean we are taking about replacing billion dollar marketplaces here, no one is going to be able to do it single-handedly.
well this one falls flat on it's ass since MaidSafe is not going to charge for storage.
Also good luck trying to get the average person of the street trying out your new decentralized storage system when they can just use dropbox. What I'm trying to say is those who win on bitcointalk and r/bitcoin will have a huge advantage
Incorrect. I can't just magically store 100 TB of data on the MaidSafe network for free. I have to have Safecoin, and Safecoin has a trade value on an exchange. It costs me money to store stuff.
Pretty easy sell for the average consumer. I just say its 10x cheaper than Dropbox, NSA can't read all your data, but it works pretty much the same way they are used to they are pretty much sold at this point. I add that you can sell your hard drive for Storjcoins they are ready to sign up.
everything you said just replace Storjcoin with Safecoin.
Can you show me where in their model where they pay dividends or provide increased value on the application level?