Good morning (or good night to those of you in North Americaland), I have a question:
Is there a blockchain ap/program/service for uploading documents to the blockchain for storage and for perpetuity?
This week I started "D's Data Dump" here on Steemit, releasing daily ebooks and documents that I have collected over years of working on the "intel" side of investigative journalism. At the moment they are stored on my hard drive, and I've been uploading them to Scribd.com... BUT.... I'd much prefer to be able to store them on the blockchain where I know they will be untamperable and available for anyone to have access to.
If anyone knows of a blockchain site/ap/service that offers this ability, please let me know!! If there isn't one currently.....
...Might I suggest to the programming community that building blockchain data storage would be an AWESOME enterprise! ... just sayin'!
d
Yes there's a few that I know of. Storj, filecoin, sia, maidsafe.
They either aren't launched or they suck bawls and have no customers right now.
May have to wait a few years to see if any are a clear winner.
Le sigh!!!!
thanx darlin!
d
I think there's a few crypto's attempting to do cloud storage, siacoin, storj and filecoin come to mind. However if you're looking to start your own and 'unfucker' is the proposed name for the project, i'd like to add a +1 to that name choice...lol.
Thanx darlin!! If I had even an ounce of technical ability, I'd launch one myself!!!!
d
The block-chain is not a good storage media. Basically, you are asking many people to store multiple copies of your data. Its like buying a dozen hard drives to store one hard drive of info on. So, unless the information is really important, then the block chain is not where you should keep it.
Putting you data into the cloud is.... asking the NSA to store and protect your data. It is not safe. It can be deleted at any moment. But, at least for now, it is at least in two places.
So, what you are asking for is not terribly convenient.
And it will never be. Because people do not know how to properly use backup media. And either over use it, or do not backup often enough.
That said, steem allows you to save text files.
You just have to convert the files you have into basic text, then publish them to your account. You have bandwidth issues there, but there are many ways to publish to the steem block chain.
yea that's kinda the conclusion I came to as well. the solution is to find a very secure place for file sharing....
d
And, if you would, please talk about what you mean by sharing. And what you mean by secure.
And, a little bit about how you expect to use it. (i.e. drop box is easy for most people because you just drag the file onto the drop box icon. However, me, as a old time computer user finds this sucks, because I do not know what is going on)
I want to be able to share documents that I have stored away- the purpose to to make sure the public has access to them (the documents), but they are untamperable with and cannot be deleted or some other fuckery used by YouTube and Google for content that they don't like.
d