In case you hadn’t heard, Storj Labs is building a decentralized cloud object storage service. Why would we do such a challenging thing? At a basic level, it’s because we believe the internet can be better than it currently is and we see how to improve it. We believe your data is worse off being stored in the centralized data centers of five multinational mega-companies.
Solving this grand problem requires us to solve many difficult sub-problems.Read More →
The wait is over for storage node operators! We have launched the Storj network V3 Explorer release, which is the alpha that allows storage node operators to join the network! We know many of you have been waiting to join the V3 network as storage node operators to start earning STORJ tokens by sharing your unused hard drive space and bandwidth. Today we will be sending invites to the first folks on our waitlist.Read More →
Replication is bad for decentralized storage, part 1: Erasure codes for fun and profit
JT Olio
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Nov 6, 2018
Hi! JT Olio here. We recently launched the white paper for our V3 network! The document offers 90 pages of detail about what we’ve built and are now working on for our near-term roadmap, and it’s wonderful to finally have it out!
I would have loved to go into this amount of detail during my conversation with David Vorick of Siacoin a few months ago. We were talking about how this V3 architecture is fundamentally better than other approaches, but I was unable to go into why at that time. Now, with the release of our white paper, we can finally dive into those reasons.
Read More →Since Storj’s humble inception at the Texas Bitcoin Hackathon four years ago - you know, the one where our cofounder Shawn Wilkinson and his first Storj prototype won the main prize - our team has been through a lot. Our community has exploded, we released our production network and announced plans to pivot to a new platform that could better scale to support exabytes of data. Part of this pivot involves releasing the architecture of this new platform.Read More →
A look at Storj Labs’ decentralized cloud storage architecture with JT Olio
JT Olio
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Jun 15, 2018
In our recent town hall meeting, we took a quick look at our development team’s progress towards building V3 of the Storj Labs network. We kept it short because we realized that not everyone is interested in the fine, technical details of the platform’s inner workings. However, we know that many developers within our community love this kind of stuff. Because of that, we committed to delivering a longer presentation on network V3 that dives into how the new network will make improvements over the current version.
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By JT Olio, Director of Engineering
Hello, I’m JT Olio! I’m excited to have the opportunity to introduce myself to you as Storj’s new Director of Engineering. This will be my fourth time building a distributed storage system, and each time I’ve been faced with new challenges and learned new things.
Distributed systems are so cool. They’re a complex intersection of security, mechanism design, performance, game theory, engineering, distributed systems research, economics, and so much more.Read More →