Mastering Blockchain - Second Edition

MaidSafe

This is another distributed storage system similar to Storj. Users are paid in Safecoin for their storage space contribution to the network. This mechanism of payment is governed by proof of resource, which ensures that the disk space committed by a user to the network is available, if not then the payment of Safecoin will drop accordingly. The files are encrypted and divided into small portions before being transmitted on to the network for storage.

Another concept of opportunistic caching has been introduced with MaidSafe, which is a mechanism to create copies of frequently accessed data physically closer to where the access requests are coming from, which results in high performance of the network. Another novel feature of the ...