I want to start the specs and design of making BURST able to store data.
anyone want to participate in this?
What i personally think would be cool, would be something totally decentralized, totally encrypted. it should not be possible for anyone to know what they store, or what people are requesting, yet, the network as a whole should be able to serve requests for data, and searches for data if data was put there to be searchable.
i guess it should cost a little to read data off the network, and it should cost a little to put data into the network.
it might also be possible to put data in, that cost more to read, then the profit could go to the "owner" burst address of the data
i would assume people could then choose what amount of diskspace they want to use for mining, and what amount for keeping data in the BURST cloud. If you keep data, it will just look like encrypted garbage, you would not know what it is, and not be able to read any of it.
This is a huge task, i expect we'd have to create a file system from scrath and then some, but the reward would be the first decentralized totally anonymous totally non-cencsored file storage with general access as well as protected access. Sort of like utorrent only where nobody will be able to tell what you are downloading and uploading and storing.
what we have going for us is a working payment system ( BURST ) and the first 10PB or so owned by people in the community.
Btw. i don't even know if it is possible to make it anonymous to the degree i want it to be, but i haven't yet seen any hard evidence why it should not be possible.
These guys are doing pretty much exactly what you are talking about
http://storj.io/Storj pays data holders in STORJX, and the network keeps track of the stored data and the locations. The 'stores" are payed proportional to their up-time and capacity. Burst uses its storage capacity to store pre-hashed "chunks" that are used to maintain the public record of transactions (block-chain). The burst block chain allows for A market, Assets, Automatic Transactions, and of course the public record of all transactions.
The storage conversation has come up a few times, but it seems like BURST and storage are two separate things. Putting effort into making a decentralized exchange, a clean and user friendly market interface, or any-type of user friendly interface for BURSTs many features would probably be time better spent, along with being an "easier" goal to achieve.
Just my 2Burst.
Good-Luck