{"id":6288,"date":"2018-02-19T06:24:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T14:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/?p=6288"},"modified":"2018-04-03T23:54:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T06:54:20","slug":"off-races-best-decentralized-storage-solutions-storj-sia-filecoin-maidsafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/off-races-best-decentralized-storage-solutions-storj-sia-filecoin-maidsafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Off to the Races: Best Decentralized Storage Solutions (Storj, Sia, Filecoin, Maidsafe)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Race to be the Best Decentralized Storage Solution<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blockchain technology is all about decentralization. First it was financial systems and payments. Next came decentralized apps and programs that could run on the blockchain. Now, another frontier is opening with the decentralization of file storage. The decentralized storage space has rapidly become a crowded race, with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/storj-beginners-guide\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Storj<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/siacoin-beginner-guide\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sia<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Filecoin, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/what-is-maidsafecoin-beginners-guide\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MaidSAFE<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> all competing for market share.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea behind decentralized storage is allowing ordinary people to rent an unused portion of their hard drive space in a peer-to-peer network. The different platforms we\u2019ll discuss in this article accomplish this task in slightly different ways. No matter the approach, however, data is a booming industry, and the future looks promising for any project that can perfect decentralized file storage.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Basics of Decentralized Storage<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Decentralized storage works by sharing a file across a peer-to-peer network.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, the uploader encrypts the file, and that person retains the key to unlock the encryption. Then the file gets broken into many smaller pieces. Each of these small encrypted pieces gets duplicated to ensure redundancy. Finally, the file shards get sent to various individual computers on the peer-to-peer network.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those individuals hosting the files only have a small shard of the file\u2019s contents, and it\u2019s encrypted. This means hosts can\u2019t gain information from the file. It also means that launching an attack against a hosting node would be pointless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To recall a file, the original uploader uses a private key along with a blockchain-hosted hash table to locate all the shards of the original file and ask the network to reconstruct the file. Once the nodes send back the various shards, the file gets rebuilt. Then the uploader uses the original encryption key to unencrypt the file for use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[thrive_leads id=&#8217;5219&#8242;]<\/p>\n<h2><b>Demand for Storage<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cloud storage market is enormous. However, major players like Amazon and Google currently dominate the space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Market research groups estimate the cloud storage market could grow to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketsandmarkets.com\/PressReleases\/cloud-storage.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$74.94 billion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by 2021 and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchandmarkets.com\/research\/lf8wbx\/cloud_storage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$92.49 billion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by 2022. If decentralized storage can capture even a small percentage of that market, it\u2019s poised to be a large industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s why the race to be the top decentralized storage solution is so competitive.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Storj<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Storj is, by far, the market leader for decentralized storage. It is also one of the oldest projects in the space. To date, Storj boasts a community of 20,000 users (uploaders) and 19,000 farmers (storage providers).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project\u2019s code is open source, so anyone could implement an instance of Storj. That said, Storj Labs, the private company behind Storj, has already built an impressive network. Users pay for access to that network.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Storj architecture follows the standard model of sharding, encryption, and swarming described above to split and re-compile files. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">User Experience<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Storj\u2019s big differentiator (aside from being the dominant force in the market) is user experience. Storj makes it easy and intuitive to sign up, host your files, or operate a node. It\u2019s intended for mass market adoption, and the design clearly works.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6290 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-13.59.50-874x331.png\" alt=\"storj ux\" width=\"874\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-13.59.50-874x331.png 874w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-13.59.50-591x224.png 591w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-13.59.50-621x235.png 621w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-13.59.50-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-13.59.50-768x291.png 768w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-13.59.50-600x227.png 600w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-13.59.50.png 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 874px) 100vw, 874px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The payment model is also pay-as-you-go for uploaders, and they can pay in USD. This facilitates onboarding and makes the transaction easy to understand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, control over the user experience comes at a cost of some centralization. Storj Labs controls access to its network. The network is more decentralized and secure than centralized alternatives, though. Storj also can\u2019t see any of your files. However, you do have to trust the Storj portal to use the network.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">STORJ Token &amp; Future Plans<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Storj doesn\u2019t support mining. Instead, its farmers undergo file audits. If the farmer can prove their computer is online and holds a copy of the given file, then they\u2019ll receive a payout. These audits ensure that the files actually exist on the network. They\u2019re also how farmers get rewarded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Payouts come in the form of STORJ tokens. STORJ is an ERC-20 token. In fact, the entire Storj ecosystem is a dApp on the Ethereum blockchain. Storj does not have its own blockchain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the near future, Storj plans to focus on solutions for scalability. They also hope to address file sharing, so users can share\/revoke access to files in real time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6293\" src=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/storjdata.png\" alt=\"storj network\" width=\"500\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/storjdata.png 500w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/storjdata-300x185.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Storj has multiple partnerships in place to test and grow its reach. Notably, they recently partnered with FileZilla, a major FTP provider. In the last six months of 2017, the amount of data stored on Storj grew by 50% each month. Storj currently hosts over 30 petabytes of data on the network.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Sia<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sia is Storj\u2019s biggest competitor with a viable product released to production. It works in a similar way to Storj. Specifically, Sia splits files into thirty segments, with enough redundancy that they could successfully rebuild the file with only ten of the thirty segments. The protocol also encrypts files in a similar way to Storj.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In contrast to Storj, Sia has its own blockchain. This proprietary blockchain supports smart contracts that Sia uses to manage and send files. Once sent, Sia also implements similar storage proofs to audit its nodes&#8217; file maintenance.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Siacoin (SC)<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sia doesn\u2019t support fiat payments like Storj. Instead, uploaders and nodes pay and get paid in Siacoin. Sia also needs miners to support its blockchain, and those miners are rewarded in Siacoin as well. There are multiple mining pools for Siacoin, the first and largest of which is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/siamining.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SiaMining<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Growth &amp; Future<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6294 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/sia-Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-11.24.19-874x414.png\" alt=\"sia network\" width=\"874\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/sia-Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-11.24.19-874x414.png 874w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/sia-Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-11.24.19-591x280.png 591w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/sia-Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-11.24.19-621x294.png 621w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/sia-Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-11.24.19-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/sia-Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-11.24.19-768x364.png 768w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/sia-Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-11.24.19-600x284.png 600w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/sia-Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-11.24.19.png 1876w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 874px) 100vw, 874px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the course of 2017, Sia grew from 75 hosts and 500 TB of storage up to 1,000 hosts and 3.3 PB of available storage. That\u2019s a rapid growth rate. However, it\u2019s still small in comparison to Storj\u2019s 20,000 hosts. Storj also has over 3.5 PB in use &#8211; more than Sia\u2019s entire network size.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Filecoin<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Filecoin is an interesting contender in this race because it hasn\u2019t launched yet. Still, many anticipate it will be a major player in the space from day one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is partly due to the team behind the launch. Filecoin is a project from Protocol Labs. They\u2019ve successfully deployed other network-based storage and computing projects, most notably <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ipfs.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IPFS<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Filecoin also has massive backing. On the one hand, Silicon Valley venture capital is behind the project, including Andreessen Horowitz and Kamal Ravikant. On the other hand, Filecoin launched one of the most successful ICOs ever, raising $205 million in its token sale.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Platform Architecture<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Filecoin\u2019s white paper describes a dual approach to platform architecture that uses two types of network nodes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first are the storage nodes, like those in Sia and Storj. However, Filecoin seems to be angling toward larger players with large amounts of dedicated storage to contribute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second type of nodes\u00a0are retrieval nodes. These nodes are ideally physically located in a central point surrounded by many storage nodes. They also need high-bandwidth, low latency internet access to retrieve and relay file shards as efficiently as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6289 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-14.00.29-874x373.png\" alt=\"filecoin platform\" width=\"874\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-14.00.29-874x373.png 874w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-14.00.29-591x252.png 591w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-14.00.29-621x265.png 621w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-14.00.29-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-14.00.29-768x328.png 768w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-14.00.29-600x256.png 600w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screenshot-2018-02-15-at-14.00.29.png 1191w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 874px) 100vw, 874px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When operating a node, Filecoin works on a model of proof of continuous replication of the file shards entrusted to you. Creating redundancy earns Filecoin tokens. Filecoin is also ahead of the game on infrastructure. Since it comes from the same company that developed IPFS, Filecoin already has a built-in protocol for redundancy and erasure coding.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marketplace<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another differentiation is that Filecoin offers a marketplace for data storage. Whereas Storj and Sia have established pricing models, Filecoin encourages asks and bids on a data storage exchange. Hosts can state at what price they\u2019re willing to offer storage and uploaders can choose whether to accept that price.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Future<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s a lot of hype around Filecoin, but the reality is they haven\u2019t yet launched. It still remains to be seen whether the hype is warranted.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>MaidSafe<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MaidSafe is a smaller competitor in the field, so far. They\u2019re also not strictly a file storage solution. They also have ambitions to get into the realm of decentralized computing. These broad ambitions make them an interesting project that could have enormous potential if they succeed. However, the drawback is grand visions mean less focus in the near term on establishing and differentiating a viable solution to a single problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6292\" src=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-03-at-7.50.43-PM-1-524x450.png\" alt=\"maidsafe proof of resource\" width=\"524\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-03-at-7.50.43-PM-1-524x450.png 524w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-03-at-7.50.43-PM-1-591x507.png 591w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-03-at-7.50.43-PM-1-621x533.png 621w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-03-at-7.50.43-PM-1-300x258.png 300w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-03-at-7.50.43-PM-1-600x515.png 600w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-03-at-7.50.43-PM-1.png 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their architecture is all about providing computing resources, not just storage. If your computer has a lot of processing power, for instance, you could rent that out on MaidSafe. Bandwidth or consistent, reliable connectivity are also valuable computing resources that you can trade on MaidSafe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MaidSafe will also make it possible to use the network anonymously. This gives added privacy to your file storage when combined with end-to-end encryption and sharded storage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6291\" src=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-03-at-10.40.50-PM-1-574x450.png\" alt=\"maidsafe roadmap\" width=\"574\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-03-at-10.40.50-PM-1-574x450.png 574w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-03-at-10.40.50-PM-1-591x463.png 591w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-03-at-10.40.50-PM-1-621x487.png 621w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-03-at-10.40.50-PM-1-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-03-at-10.40.50-PM-1-768x602.png 768w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-03-at-10.40.50-PM-1-600x471.png 600w, https:\/\/coincentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-03-at-10.40.50-PM-1.png 1594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project is still in the alpha stage of development. It doesn&#8217;t have all its features yet. However, they are making progress on development, entering Alpha 2 in the last few months.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Conclusion<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The future of decentralized storage is exciting. It has the potential to be faster, cheaper, and more secure storage for broad adoption. While competition is fierce in this space, it will ultimately be good for the resulting technology. All of these teams are working hard to improve and differentiate their solutions. If speed, price, and scalability improve, you could see these companies going toe-to-toe with Amazon and Google in the not so distant future.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read about the four main projects (Storj, Sia, Filecoin, MaidSafe) competing to be the number one decentralized storage solution across a peer-to-peer network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":6392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5714],"tags":[5762],"class_list":{"0":"post-6288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"tag-cryptocurrency-industry"},"wppr_data":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Off to the Races: Best 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