Storj or Sia - sharing free hd space for $?

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Gene

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Has anyone been doing this? seems like not a bad way to lease out extra space per month. sia appears to be $2.50 per tb per per month and storj im not sure of but pays more with current prices. Even at $2.50 per month, that pays off a drive in 14 month

Edit: can this be moved to software. that is where i thought i created this
 
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No clue what you're talking about and googling SIA returns songs, etc...

URL with more info?

Never heard of "sharing hd space" o_O for $, sounds interesting.
 
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Sia - Sia
Storj - Storj - Decentralized Cloud Storage

They use cryptographic "storage" currency. You get paid monthly with storj not sure with sia. The value i've seen for Sia is about $2.50 per month per tb of storage you have "contracted" out. For Storj it is more expensive so could be up to $10 or more per month. I'm going to try them both. A lot of how much you have "contracted" out has to do with your bandwidth and uptime. You get autopaid into a cryptofolder from what I could find researching

There is also maidsafe and burstcoin that do the same thing
 
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wow interesting idea.... I wonder though, what happened if whomever computer my data got stored in decided to shut down their pc for the long weekend, would I not able to access my data until its back online ???
 
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It covers that in the faq. network replictes it multiple times
 
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Funny you mention this. I had a discussion on the Storj service not too long ago.
 
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What are tour thoughts on this Patrick? ive got that hgst4u60 and plenty of open bays plus 1 gig fiber being installed wednesday
 
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Gene said:
1 gig fiber being installed wednesday
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My thought is that I am jealous of that part.

More constructive answer - I am not sure how liquid the payouts in some random crypto currency are.
 
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Gene

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Dont be it is AT&T. saw them running fiber down the street last month. They keep tieing google up in court here while they magically find the funds to build out fiber all the sudden
 
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