Has there been any thought in dropping the TX fee for storage of files? Given DTC's current exchange rates, it would cost about $1.00 to store a 40KB MS Word document. That seems pretty steep.
Might help in getting some traction if the rates were lower. Also, if there was a way in the wallet GUI to do this instead of command-line. Of course, this would also probably cause the blockchain to EXPLODE in size.
1. This fee is not hardcoded, 'dynamic fee' will be soon built into wallet - just like in Bitcoin wallet. But miners can set their own fees, so transactions with 0 fee can never reach destination. $1.00 per DTC - it was price when DTC costed 0.001 BTC, and Bitcoin price was $1.000. Now it's 0.5$. Anyway, $0.5 for MS Word document is not so much if you're not planning to store hundreds and thousands of documents.
2. It won't explode - remember that max block size is 1MB, and 1 block is generated every minute. And I don't think that people will want to store gigabytes of data immediately.
Right, I agree $0.50 isn't alot of money but when you've got places like SkyDrive and GoogleDrive offering several GB for free, paying what works out to basically 2.5 cents per KB is pretty steep (current DTC/$USD = $0.50).
Although storing data in the DTC blockchain does have significant advantages, it is very secure (assuming that you encrypt your data), it is PERMANENT and anonymous - no one even knows it's there except you. And, it is very resilient - a copy of your data exists on every fully synchronized node on the network.
I guess by "explode" I meant the block chain could grow significantly very quickly, if you added a way to add files/data to the blockchain using the GUI wallet. 1MB per minute adds up pretty darn fast. A year from now -- I'm not going to store the entire 513GB DTC blockchain on my machine just so I can access my 200KB worth of "super secret" documents.