"By using Storj’s MetaDisk infrastructure...
users will be able to upload, transfer, and decrypt files all in the wallet via the Storj MetaDisk API."
Here's the whitepaper, you're welcome:
http://www.opal-coin.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/OpalDriveWhitepaper.pdf
Since Storj is in alpha testing using only handpicked early investors...
And in what can be described as an early proof-of-concept stage...
So early Opan Drive users are basically part of Storj alpha testing?
https://live.driveshare.org/
Storj dev here. I can second these concerns. Saying Opal "partnered" with us when they were just planning on using our MetaDisk APIs was concerning, but we just attributed it to over-eager marketing.
However, this current announcement, if it implies that Opal Drive is currently using Storj, is just too far. The current MetaDisk test nodes we have are just that, tests, and are not suitable for production usage for a whole number of reasons. We've made lots of progress on the farming infrastructure side (as highlighted in live.driveshare.org) but the farming network is not hooked up to MetaDisk yet.
Our current managed tests (i.e. our test node) is only accessible to our crowdsale supporters, whitelisted by SJCX address.
I don't like to sling shit, but these kind of announcements risk tarnishing the respect of our own project, so you guys need to be crystal clear in exactly what you are doing...
Sorry, I tried to make that clear in the white paper, we are not using the driveshare network, but rather the metadisk network. I would say the partnership (which was over-eager journalism) was much more false than saying we are using storj, because metadisk is a storj project. Please contact me on Skype if you would like to talk