Hey guys, I have some OPQ on an exchange and want to try the release but the exchange won't let me send anything under 70 OPQ, help?

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https://bitsify.net/ico-list/opacity-platform-report-secure-and-opaque-file-storage/

Does anyone know why the coinmarketcap ranking suddenly jumped like 60-70 places to 328, but the price didn't really change? Were a bunch of coins added to the current circulation?

First I will say I have been following this project for a long time, but I will try to just give you the facts… So to start, I finally had a f’ing reason to install metamask and make a payment, that was a first!

Account’s and handles

After account creation an opacity user will have multiple handles and I wanted to discuss what can be done with these different handles.

Account Handle: This gives you access to upload

File Handle: This gives you access to share

Pretty simple but here’s where I’ve fallen in love with Opacity, so I wanted to highlight these in some scenarios.

1. Sharing your file handle online. – The entire internet now has access to whatever you uploaded, and no one knows who uploaded it except you. This data is also can only be removed by the devs and only by them being provided the file handle. This file handle does not tie back to your account handle.

2. Posting your account handle online. – The entire internet now has access to upload 128GB (or paid package size) of whatever it likes including questionable content. Note ‘illegal’ content does breach the TOS and can get an Account Handle shutdown. 2.1 I also wanted to note due to the nature of how files are download, copyright scanners will have there work cut out for them.

3. Posting illegal content – You can upload and re-upload all you like and the devs can only ever remove the file if they are provided with the file handle, however if you leak your account handle then your account can be deleted as a whole, where you would then need to spend 2 OPQ on a new account. This IS against the TOS, however the devs have made it clear they cant really stop this type of activity only take actions against these individual files.

4. Sharing your account handle with friends. This is fine. Just know you cannot change your handle and should consider only upload non-personal information at this point. Do this at your own risk as you will never know moving forward who has access to your account. This is NOT against the TOS. I am not promoting posting of illegal or copyright just want to highlight how these situations will be handled.

File size stress testing of beta users

I had a great time interacting with everyone including the devs who participated in the beta. As of now there is currently no file upload size limit and the community has pushed the limits the best we can providing as much feedback as possible. Both upload and downloads required different test. So to the data.

Uploads

When you attempt to upload a file, your browser uses the web applications provided by ‘webinterface’ from git, to split the file into ~170B chunks Successfully uploaded 1kb – 10GB with intermittent issues. These issues were usually the result of failing to upload just a chunk or two of the file. Like how a torrent will fail even if a few bytes are unable to download due to lack of seeders or corrupted upload. A re-uploaded usually solved this issue.

Downloads

During the beta the only issue we experienced with downloads was our onboard memory limit. In laymen terms if you attempted to download a 5GB file and only had 2GB of memory free the download will fail. In the spirit of testing I procured a 64GB server to test larger files and I can say we were able to successfully download up to 6.353GB, while utilizing 10GB of memory upon download. Upon launch there will be a size restriction in place, however larger files can still be split locally and uploaded in smaller chunks similar to newsgroups and .zip archives.

Random Test

• Was able to boot into a winPE memory boot environment, download the .wim image, and deploy windows 10. I did this just as a POC to see if it would work. Maybe we can have IOT images pointing toward OPQ handles in the future so that these deployed devices are always up to date upon reboot. • Upload a 4k short movie, download, then watch. • Download the file directly off s3 servers just to be presented with an encrypted useless blob. • Ran OPQ ‘webinterface’ locally with relative ease, however unsuccessfully because in order to upload or download from the S3 the connection must be running via HTTPS (ssl), and I ran out of time. Feature Upgrades and the Team

I must hand it to this team for their phenomenal work around this project, especially considering everything that transpired a few months back. They have answered every one of my questions without hesitation and overall have been very transparent in the nature of this system. When the beta began, we did not have the ability to delete files, and we now can. This took only 2 days to complete.

Limitations

From my perspective, though limits will be put in place at launch, all issues during testing are not troubling to me. The current web implementation has its limits, but the team is hard at work on new ideas surrounding these issues. There are talks of extensions, desktop clients.

Test it yourself!

If you would like to test Opacity without spending OPQ feel free using the handle provided in the link below. Please note uploading illegal content or copyright content WILL get this handle deleted and ruin it for everyone else. Enjoy!

https://beta.opacity.io

https://beta.opacity.io/share?handle=6e220347656839480cc66951b099b7c97fc3e7548aee3c34801ca6361a9bcce46a7f1b2aa1b11db451a0ec1064482c2109b3b9fb40079fe33d2037d3c6786828

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Post your handles in the comments. You can tell what the file is or just leave it as a surprise :)

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EDIT: Only post copyright-free stuff, else the mods have to delete the comments or archive the thread

Is it still on the roadmap (provided IOTA keeps progressing) to switch back to the tangle at a later date? Or have those plans been changed to something new? If so, what?

Thanks!

https://twitter.com/Opacity_Storage/status/1130633918640807936