Storj partnered with FileZilla to integrate their decentralized cloud storage with the popular FTP software. This is great news for users of FileZilla wanting to diversify their storage but also for people running farming nodes, i.e. renting out hard drive space which is now actually starting to have a market. The amount of actually used shared disk space jumped a couple of hours after the announcement.
Currently there are still a lot more renting nodes than actual users but I am confident Storj will gain traction in time. Especially if they release a client like Dropbox/Google Drive has, and/or, getting more partners and apps (for ex. Cyberduck) using the service.
You can read more about it in their official blog:
http://blog.storj.io/post/163215547738/storj-and-filezilla-integration-bringing
There has been some turbulence around the leadership of Storj and other projects like sia exist that look very promising.
From a "normal consumer market" outside of the crypto world though I think Storj has more options to gain traction than sia where you need to get siacoins to buy for hosting, etc.
Both services currently don't allow sharing a URL to people, or, having a simple web app interface to use the service. That's what I'd love to see in the future!
What do you prefer StorJ or SIAcoin ?
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@witze From a development team and leadership perspective definitely SIA. From what I see in terms of marketing, PR, ease-of-use Storj. Storj looks like Dropbox to me where as SIA like S3. Time will tell who releases a method to access files directly through the browser earlier, who gets its performance right and if it is an infrastructure play that wins because of developers or if "marketing" will win. There were services in the past that weren't technologically great but still got a huge market share because of their marketing.
In terms of user adoption being able to just buy storage with a credit card (Storj) and not need to get a specific coin (Sia) is definitely a huge plus...but maybe filecoin puts them all to shame :)
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Pretty good answer and more or less my opinion, I m also prefering Siacoin, but Marketing doesn't look the best. What are your favourite coins btw. ?
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Cool thanks for this update @palme
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