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Re: [ANN] DriveShare - Earn money by sharing your extra hard drive space
I wish Group C let people in with fewer STORJ
Agreed, but we all know that the early adopters get the rewards while everyone else gets a benefit. As I've said elsewhere, I'm still trying to figure out if the expense is worth it.
Re: [ANN] Storjcoin X (SJCX) - A Coin for Decentralized Cloud Storage
looks like I'm removing all my sell orders 
I think in the future a 1.5 - 3 billion valuation would be fair .01 to 0.02 btc some day.
Bethecloud
I haven't had a whole bitcoin to myself in a very long time. But lets not make this thread about price speculation until the software is finished with testing and more people start using it.
I honestly have no interest in price speculation - i think the technology is too cool to worry about profit right now, but getting on board as a tester in this stage does carry a substantial pricetag and it's hard to know whether it's a wise investment.
Re: [ANN] Storjcoin X (SJCX) - A Coin for Decentralized Cloud Storage
So... I am kicking myself right now for not jumping on board with Storj during the initial crowdsale. I feel like I'm just playing catch up. So... I'm setting up a driveshare machine and working to accumulate 10,000 SJCX really quick. I'm considering tinkering with one of the Synology NAS's to use it as a Storj device. I saw a mention of it but no one seems to have followed up on the development yet. I extracted their firmware and it looks pretty doable, but I've yet to buy a device yet.
My friend is doing the same on those Taiwan made boxes. Let me find that picture first.
And the price is going up again : https://poloniex.com/exchange#btc_sjcx
What Taiwan made boxes are you referring to? I wasn't excited about paying $175 for a Synology box, but it looks like it would pay for itself in saved electricity over 4 years... if it runs at 19 watts as advertised. I'd be glad to switch to another manufacturer. I know Shawn had talked about some "branded" hardware during the Trial A video, but I don't know what he used.
The problem with tiny barebones linux-based machines (thinking RPi and Beaglebone) is that they lack the SATA.
This Cubietruck: http://www.cubietruck.com/collections/frontpage/products/cubieboard2-allwinner-a20-arm-cortex-a7-dual-core-development-board looks fine, but I'm not interested in paying $65 for it when most of the chip will be idled (even useless if we develop a stripped kernel for efficiency). This looks like a good time for a worldwide search for the optimal hardware.
Regarding the lack of SATA on the Raspberry Pi, there have been various solutions proposed to this problem, including USB to SATA adapters. Some interesting discussions/practical instructions on how to accomplish this can be found here:
http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/360/can-i-attach-a-sata-controller
and here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=91131
I'm aware of the USB adapters for Raspberry Pi's, but I have a pretty substantial belief that using that kind of setup would introduce an inevitable bottleneck. It may be worth trying, but I'm guessing either the RPi processor won't be able to keep up with IO operations on the network or the USB/SATA interface will introduce a bus bottleneck. There is one way to find out! I do have the hardware for that so I might give it a run tonight.
Great, please report back with your test results! Also, I forgot to mention a possible alternative, the Banana Pi, which already has SATA integrated and is all around more powerful, but still compatible with many RPi accessory boards:
http://bananapi.com/
http://liliputing.com/2014/04/banana-pi-a-57-rasperry-pi-clone-with-a-faster-cpu-more-memory.html
you can pick up a Banana Pi (or Raspberry Pi) at newegg, which means, you can pay for it with bitcoin!
http://liliputing.com/2014/04/banana-pi-a-57-rasperry-pi-clone-with-a-faster-cpu-more-memory.html
Absolutely awesome! I hadn't heard of the Banana Pi but I'm buying one ASAP. Do you have any experience with it?
Re: [ANN] Storjcoin X (SJCX) - A Coin for Decentralized Cloud Storage
So... I am kicking myself right now for not jumping on board with Storj during the initial crowdsale. I feel like I'm just playing catch up. So... I'm setting up a driveshare machine and working to accumulate 10,000 SJCX really quick. I'm considering tinkering with one of the Synology NAS's to use it as a Storj device. I saw a mention of it but no one seems to have followed up on the development yet. I extracted their firmware and it looks pretty doable, but I've yet to buy a device yet.
My friend is doing the same on those Taiwan made boxes. Let me find that picture first.
And the price is going up again : https://poloniex.com/exchange#btc_sjcx
What Taiwan made boxes are you referring to? I wasn't excited about paying $175 for a Synology box, but it looks like it would pay for itself in saved electricity over 4 years... if it runs at 19 watts as advertised. I'd be glad to switch to another manufacturer. I know Shawn had talked about some "branded" hardware during the Trial A video, but I don't know what he used.
The problem with tiny barebones linux-based machines (thinking RPi and Beaglebone) is that they lack the SATA.
This Cubietruck: http://www.cubietruck.com/collections/frontpage/products/cubieboard2-allwinner-a20-arm-cortex-a7-dual-core-development-board looks fine, but I'm not interested in paying $65 for it when most of the chip will be idled (even useless if we develop a stripped kernel for efficiency). This looks like a good time for a worldwide search for the optimal hardware.
Regarding the lack of SATA on the Raspberry Pi, there have been various solutions proposed to this problem, including USB to SATA adapters. Some interesting discussions/practical instructions on how to accomplish this can be found here:
http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/360/can-i-attach-a-sata-controller
and here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=91131
I'm aware of the USB adapters for Raspberry Pi's, but I have a pretty substantial belief that using that kind of setup would introduce an inevitable bottleneck. It may be worth trying, but I'm guessing either the RPi processor won't be able to keep up with IO operations on the network or the USB/SATA interface will introduce a bus bottleneck. There is one way to find out! I do have the hardware for that so I might give it a run tonight.
Re: [ANN] DriveShare - Earn money by sharing your extra hard drive space
I for one cannot wait for this to be live so that i no longer have to worry about the security of my files and the people that have access to them. Privacy is a human right and being able to share the truth of our world is another step towards freeing the people.
Cheers
How do you think Storj will fit into the ecosystem with the other products that may offer a similar service? MaidSafe can't be ignored - and I know both projects have been vehement that they're not competing.. but when several people are working to provide a similar service it's hard not to see them as competitors. Additionally, do you think the public will recognize the benefit of something like storj or will they cling to the old model that is flawed but easier to understand?
Re: [ANN] Storjcoin X (SJCX) - A Coin for Decentralized Cloud Storage
Keep your SJCX, now price is just peanuts, it can goes much much higher , this on of my best coin for 2015
So.. I don't think of this as one of the much hyped "investment coins" - I really think of Storj as a utility with a coin as a unit of gatekeeping. I'd like to think there's a place where we use blockchain technologies as utilities rather than get-rich-quick schemes. (Or should I say systems?)
Re: [ANN] Storjcoin X (SJCX) - A Coin for Decentralized Cloud Storage
Are there any plans for an offer that allows users to receive a bit of storj for free? You know, how most of the other competitors offer "2 GB for free" and then paid plans for an additional charge? It seems like it would lower the barrier-to-entry for people who aren't ready to purchase storj.
Re: [ANN] Storjcoin X (SJCX) - A Coin for Decentralized Cloud Storage
So... I am kicking myself right now for not jumping on board with Storj during the initial crowdsale. I feel like I'm just playing catch up. So... I'm setting up a driveshare machine and working to accumulate 10,000 SJCX really quick. I'm considering tinkering with one of the Synology NAS's to use it as a Storj device. I saw a mention of it but no one seems to have followed up on the development yet. I extracted their firmware and it looks pretty doable, but I've yet to buy a device yet.
My friend is doing the same on those Taiwan made boxes. Let me find that picture first.
And the price is going up again : https://poloniex.com/exchange#btc_sjcx
What Taiwan made boxes are you referring to? I wasn't excited about paying $175 for a Synology box, but it looks like it would pay for itself in saved electricity over 4 years... if it runs at 19 watts as advertised. I'd be glad to switch to another manufacturer. I know Shawn had talked about some "branded" hardware during the Trial A video, but I don't know what he used.
The problem with tiny barebones linux-based machines (thinking RPi and Beaglebone) is that they lack the SATA.
This Cubietruck: http://www.cubietruck.com/collections/frontpage/products/cubieboard2-allwinner-a20-arm-cortex-a7-dual-core-development-board looks fine, but I'm not interested in paying $65 for it when most of the chip will be idled (even useless if we develop a stripped kernel for efficiency). This looks like a good time for a worldwide search for the optimal hardware.
Re: [ANN] Storjcoin X (SJCX) - A Coin for Decentralized Cloud Storage
So... I am kicking myself right now for not jumping on board with Storj during the initial crowdsale. I feel like I'm just playing catch up. So... I'm setting up a driveshare machine and working to accumulate 10,000 SJCX really quick. I'm considering tinkering with one of the Synology NAS's to use it as a Storj device. I saw a mention of it but no one seems to have followed up on the development yet. I extracted their firmware and it looks pretty doable, but I've yet to buy a device yet.
My friend is doing the same on those Taiwan made boxes. Let me find that picture first.
And the price is going up again : https://poloniex.com/exchange#btc_sjcx
What Taiwan made boxes are you referring to? I wasn't excited about paying $175 for a Synology box, but it looks like it would pay for itself in saved electricity over 4 years... if it runs at 19 watts as advertised. I'd be glad to switch to another manufacturer. I know Shawn had talked about some "branded" hardware during the Trial A video, but I don't know what he used.
Re: [ANN] Storjcoin X (SJCX) - A Coin for Decentralized Cloud Storage
So... I am kicking myself right now for not jumping on board with Storj during the initial crowdsale. I feel like I'm just playing catch up. So... I'm setting up a driveshare machine and working to accumulate 10,000 SJCX really quick. I'm considering tinkering with one of the Synology NAS's to use it as a Storj device. I saw a mention of it but no one seems to have followed up on the development yet. I extracted their firmware and it looks pretty doable, but I've yet to buy a device yet.