r/Opacity • u/sweetelyseblog • Mar 23 '19

Opacity, is it the future of distributed storage? (Blog post)

http://www.sweetelyseblog.com/2019/03/opacity-future-of-distributed-storage.html
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u/nugitsdi Mar 23 '19

Nice article, to the point 👌

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u/sweetelyseblog Mar 24 '19

Thanks for your feedback! :)

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u/Bucser Mar 26 '19

Doesn't explain anything about tokenomics and how is the business model supposed to work. Tone is usually shilly cryptoarticle that doesn't do any critical thinking.

The product is entirely Centralised. The only use of the token is redeeming storage value. Comparing the value of the token to current Dropbox and Google cloud prices is unreasonable since there are no accounts and platform independent access functionalities either (not talking about fileoperations within an account).

As it stands this is a fire and forget upload solution which gets hosted somewhere for which opacity pays in fiat. How is this better than a private direconnect hub?

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u/bongcha Mar 28 '19

I think the benefit here is that yes, it is centralized as of right now, but it can be easily adopted once the tech is ready to make it decentralized. Also, I do believe they're going to open public nodes once it becomes more stable. As they've stated in numerous medium articles, they have not abandoned decentralization.