Storj Blog

How Storj increases object storage security exponentially

James Prestwich on engineering • Jun 7, 2016

Security and privacy are at the core of the Storj ethos. Last week in Berlin, we were delighted to present at a Blueyard event called Decentralized & Encrypted — The mission to upgrade the Internet & an open conversation with Edward Snowden (https://goo.gl/aFV15O). Below is a look into how we strive to secure our users’ privacy by decentralizing and encrypting object storage. Storj’s P2P object storage network relies on a supply side, composed of people or organizations (“farmers”) who provide storage capacity (https://storj.

Why SJCX? Why not Bitcoin?

James Prestwich on tokens • Feb 20, 2015

There’s a lot of public discussion of appcoins like SJCX. We like to keep out of economic and technological debates, and focus on developing the platform. We chose to implement SJCX as a CounterParty token for a variety of reasons, and we want to explain just one compelling reason we plan to use SJCX as the fuel of the network: the Storj platform, as presently designed, cannot run on Bitcoin. Bitcoin is just too valuable.

How much will I make from DriveShare ?

James Prestwich on support • Feb 8, 2015

We’ve been asking ourselves that question a lot lately, and frankly, we don’t know. There’s no way to tell what the market will look like after the network launches. But we can help you make an educated guess.