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<p><b>Storj</b> (pronounced: storage) aims to become a cloud storage platform that can’t be censored or monitored, or have downtime. Storj is a platform, cryptocurrency, and suite of decentralized applications that allows users to store data in a secure and decentralized manner. It uses blockchain features like a transaction ledger, public/private key encryption, and cryptographic hash functions for security. Furthermore, it will be way cheaper (10x-to-100x), faster, and more secure than traditional cloud storage services.</p>
<p>Storj is working hard to solve data security issues with the help of its own web app, <a href="https://metadisk.org/" class="link">MetaDisk</a>, and client app, <a href="https://driveshare.org/" class="link">DriveShare</a>. It is the first decentralized, end-to-end encrypted cloud storage that uses blockchain technology and cryptography to secure online files. There is no need to trust a corporation, vulnerable servers, or employees with your files. Storj completely removes trust from the equation.</p>
<p>To best protect your data, files are encrypted client-side on users’ computers before they are uploaded. Each file is split up into chunks which are first encrypted and then distributed for storage across the Storj network. The network is comprised of DriveShare nodes run by users around the world who rent out their unused hard drive space in return for <b>Storjcoin X (SJCX)</b>.</p>
<p>The decentralized aspect of Storj means there are no central servers to be compromised, and because of the use of client-side encryption, only the end-users have access to their unencrypted files and encryption keys.</p>
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<p>Storj is a cloud storage platform. The key word in that sentence is ‘platform’ because without it, Storj would just really be a decentralized cloud storage alternative. While a decentralized cloud storage alternative in itself would still be a great product, what we are creating goes beyond that.</p>
<p>Storj allows users to create decentralized applications. We have already begun to see basic demos using the MetaDisk API and pulling content from the network, including an image viewer, a .txt and .pdf viewer, a music player, and even a video service. Some of these services have even been thrown into a Storj Media Center of sorts.</p>
<p>Our corporate entity Storj Labs aims to bring decentralized cloud storage to the average business and consumer. With constant data breaches and high costs, users are becoming more aware that the current model of cloud storage is broken. Storj Labs provides DaaS (Data-as-a-Service), as well as help building tools and APIs for customers to be able to interface with this new cloud storage model.</p>
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<p>Please send an email to <a href="mailto:fund@storj.io" class="link">fund@storj.io</a> to learn more about investment opportunities.</p>
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<p>The Community Funds are for rewarding community members for their contributions to supporting Storj. These rewards take the form of bounties, payments for specific tasks, and giveaways!</p>
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<p>The Developer Funds are used for payment as salary, tips, and bonuses for full time and volunteer contributors to the project.</p>
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<p>Yes. We do not require user accounts or personal information to use the platform.</p>
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<p>The crowdsale funds are used for:</p>
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<li><p>Reimbursement of prior expenses</p></li>
<li><p>Salaries for full time contributors and payments to freelancers</p></li>
<li><p>Further development of Metadisk, our web application software</p></li>
<li><p>Development of DriveShare, our storage and bandwidth renting software</p></li>
<li><p>Research and development for the protocol, applications, and blockchain technologies</p></li>
<li><p>Marketing, advertising, media, and articles</p></li>
<li><p>Community Funding</p></li>
<li><p>Legal counsel</p></li>
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<p>The tokens were distributed in the following proportions:</p>
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<li><p>Bitcoin Sales - 70% of coins</p></li>
<li><p>Developer Pool - 15% of coins</p></li>
<li><p>Community Pool - 15% of coins</p></li>
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<p>MetaDisk is our first application. It allows people to upload files to the network. DriveShare is our second application. It allows people to share their hard drive space with the network.</p>
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<p>People running the DriveShare client will never know what files they are hosting, nor will they be able to access them. The person uploading files to the network will be responsible.</p>
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<p>MetaDisk is an open-source file sharing app that is based on a decentralized network of nodes and is the first application built on top of the Storj platform. These nodes are all around the world and act as a network to host all of the data that goes through MetaDisk.</p>
<p>Each file is shredded, encrypted, and then distributed across the network to achieve maximum security. Only the original uploader of the files has the private keys to decrypt and open them.</p>
<p>MetaDisk is our end user application that allows users to store files on the network. With MetaDisk you will be able to store, download, and share all of your files securely.</p>
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<p>Yes, you will be able to remove files from the network. A very simple way to do this will be to stop paying for the storage of the file.</p>
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<p>You will be making small microtransactions to maintain the storage of your file and to access it. These payments will be small and made over time.</p>
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<p>You probably wouldn't stream directly from the farmer. More likely a MetaDisk-like node will proxy from the farmer, cache it on the server, then serve from there. This is sort of what the current MetaDisk nodes do. If it's not in cache they will pull it from the network, and charge for the resources used.</p>
<p>We're also examining the feasibility of other payment models. For example, a website distributing a podcast may be able to purchase download credits for other users. Research will be done during the upcoming beta test to determine the most convenient and effective distribution methods.</p>
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<p>Users will not need to specify storage duration upfront. You will be making microtransactions to maintain the storage of your file and to access it, so your file will remain in the network until your payments stop.</p>
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<p>This is currently not possible, but eventually we will be able to integrate with other projects like Ethereum, which will be able to create, enforce, and allow modification of smart contracts between users and nodes.</p>
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<p>Yes, users will be able to set the level of redundancy they feel comfortable with.</p>
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<p>Yes, you will be able to adjust your redundancy level. The network will then upload the files to the required number of farmers.</p>
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<p>You could use our API to build your own application on top of the network and allow people to host files and build your own business!</p>
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<p>Yes. Your files will be encrypted, copied, and distributed around the world, rendering them immune to censorship and natural disasters.</p>
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<p>DriveShare is an open-source application that allows users to rent out their excess hard drive space in exchange for SJCX. This software works in conjunction with Metadisk. Those running Driveshare will act as decentralized cloud storage nodes for the network.</p>
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<p>Drive Farming is the term used to describe the act of selling or renting out extra hard drive space. This is most comparable to traditional crypto-currency mining. Users allocate a portion of their available hard drive space and specify a folder on their drive to store network data.</p>
<p>This space stores small encrypted shards of MetaDisk users’ files. This means that no farmer holds the entire file that a user uploaded, and, because of the encryption, they couldn’t read it anyway.</p>
<p>If someone attempts to access and alter the files that they are storing, the shard will fail the next challenge issued by the owner of the data. This will result in the malicious node being dropped, and the network will select another location to store the shard. And of course, the network doesn’t pay cheating nodes.</p>
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<p>Much like Drive Farming, Bandwidth farming is a key part of DriveShare. Users can allocate a defined amount of bandwidth to Storj and therefore will be able to download and upload files at their desired speed.</p>
<p>All the nodes working together act as a torrent-like network, which will minimize slowdown and keep service quality high.</p>
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<p>With Bitcoin you mine; with Storj you farm. It's not exactly the same thing as mining BTC or LTC with ASICs or GPUs. By “farming” we mean sharing your unused hard drive space through our DriveShare app.</p>
<p>The simple DriveShare GUI will allow you to specify how much storage you want to share, add an SJCX address for payments, and specify a MetaDisk node to use.</p>
<p>Then, when people upload files via MetaDisk, if your node is online, you will start getting file chunks hosted on your HD and you will get a reward for them.</p>
<p>There are a few variables that could make the number of hosted chunks on your shared storage (and thus your expected rewards) higher or lower:</p>
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<p>We are not implementing farming pools. However, farming pools could exist if one or more nodes running MetaDisk or an application that uses the MetaDisk API are set to use specific DriveShare nodes for storage. The same is true if a number of DriveShare nodes are set to use a specific MetaDisk node to get file chunks/contracts. Consider that anyone could be running a MetaDisk node as well as a DriveShare node.</p>
<p>Our code is Open Source and we expect people to play with it and customize it to their needs, so yes farming pools could be an option.</p>
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<p>Since Storj is a decentralized network, the price of data storage will ultimately be determined by market forces. Farmers will compete to win the business of users, and users will only agree to prices they find competitive. MetaDisk will make it a simple process for users to find farmers at competitive rates.</p>
<p>Although the exact market price cannot be predicted at this time, the decentralized model of Storj will likely offer better rates than are currently set by conventional cloud storage providers for a similar amount of storage.</p>
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<p>Your upload speed will severely limit the amount of data that can be stored or served by you in a timely manner. The problem comes when you have contracts for stored data that expire, or when your storage system goes offline and you lose those contracts and the data is deleted. Your system then has to re-fill terabytes of data on a slow line. In addition, if your node can’t upload data in a timely manner on request, you may lose contracts or be dropped from the network.</p>
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<p>While DriveShare doesn’t offer a “donate” option, you could share your available space for a nominal amount of SJCX. If you charge just enough to cover the cost of your electricity, you essentially offer it to the network for “free.”</p>
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<p>Because Storj provides secure zero-knowledge encrypted storage, it’s not possible to know what type of data is being stored. However third-party service providers, developers, and apps wishing to utilize the Storj network can restrict the types of files and uploads that maybe stored on the network through their front-end.</p>
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<p>No. To protect against node failures and downtime the Storj network defaults to three redundant storage nodes. If you manually lowered the number of nodes storing their files to a single node, then your file would be inaccessible until it came back online.</p>
<p>Also, if your files are stored with multiple nodes and one goes offline, the Storj network will automatically find another node to take over the open contract so your files continue to be available.</p>
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<p>Not at all. The Storj network breaks every file up into very small chunks that could be distributed to dozens of Storj nodes for hosting.</p>
<p>Just as with other peer-to-peer networks your computer only needs to retrieve that small chunk from each host which can be accomplished very quickly, no matter how low the bandwidth of an individual node.</p>
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<p>The network will route around your node, and drop your contracts. Another node on the network would retrieve the data from the redundant nodes that the owner has contracted with, and you will lose the contract to store the affected data.</p>
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<p>You will be paid for the period of time that you provided the storage space to the network. When your storage goes offline, you will start to fail network challenges. After a certain number of failures, your contracts will be revoked and distributed to other nodes.</p>
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<p>Ideally, this would require an upfront investment of a couple hundred dollars to purchase a dedicated network attached storage device such as the Synology DS213air or DS214se.</p>
<p>These can be plugged in and run 24/7 with up to 2x1TB - 6TB drives. Adding a small, inexpensive 400W+ Cyberpower or APC UPS Battery backup could also improve uptime during power outages.</p>
<p>This is a very simple and efficient setup for the average user, but please make sure to verify DriveShare compatibility with any NAS you wish to purchase on StorjTalk.</p>
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<p>Yes you can, any disk drive that your operating system (Windows, Mac OS, Linux) recognizes as an attached drive can be selected from within the DriveShare application.</p>
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<p>Crowdsale participants get exclusive access to early farming software and applications.</p>
<p>There will be 3 Test Groups:</p>
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<li><p>Group A Crowdsale participants holding over 10,000 SJCX - Not Rewarded</p></li>
<li><p>Group B All crowdsale contributors & new participants <a href="http://blog.storj.io/post/118706366258/driveshare-test-group-b-plan">(more info)</a> - Rewarded</p></li>
<li><p>Group C Anyone holding 10,000 SJCX* or more - Rewarded</p></li>
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<p class="small">*Details are subject to change.</p>
<p>SJCX can be purchased at any time and be added to your address balance to be able to qualify for Test Group C. Also your original crowdsale address can be topped up to and over 10,000 SJCX to be eligible for Test Group A.</p>
<p>“Not Rewarded” means Group A will only be helping with testing and will not earn coins for sharing their storage. “Rewarded” means you will earn SJCX to share your unused storage during beta testing (Groups B and C).</p>
<p>Make sure you use an SJCX or Bitcoin address where you control the private keys, we do not recommend using an address from an exchange. We will need to verify you actually own the address before you are allowed to be a tester.</p>
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<p>You can find the latest client release and more details on <a href="https://github.com/Storj/dataserv-client/releases/" class="link">https://github.com/Storj/dataserv-client/releases/</a>.</p>
<p>Please follow the instructions provided on <a href="https://driveshare.org/dataserv.html" class="link">https://driveshare.org/dataserv.html</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>CONFIG:</strong> The config command is currently only run once when you first run dataserv-client (ie, starting from 0 without previous build). Currently only one argument, --set_payout_address is necessary. Config will create your config.json file which will include your payout address, your private key/wallet address and the version of the client under which is was created.</p>
<p><strong>FARM:</strong> The farm command is a compilation of multiple commands and currently serves as the primary command in the dataserv-client application. Farm includes the functions register, build and poll, run in that order.</p>
<p>dataserv-client --store_path <your path> --max_size <your max size> farm</p>
<p><strong>REGISTER:</strong> The register command is no longer used in dataserv-client except as a component of the farm command. Register communicates with the server your payout address and authentication address, linking the two together and setting the date that your build started. This is the point where you payout address is linked to your auth address and you wallet address. Your payout address and wallet are the seeds for you auth address (ie a single config.json will always create the same auth address)</p>
<p><strong>BUILD:</strong> The build command is a testing command and will likely play no role once peer-to-peer data transfers begin. In the tests, build is the engine that creates shards (SHA 256 hashes). Build includes periodic pinging of the server with your current height. By default, build pings the server every 25 shards with your current height. Once the build is finished (reaches --max_size) build will report your final height to the server.</p>
<p><strong>POLL:</strong> The poll command is a simple ping of the server to tell it that your build is live and being shared on the network. Poll does not tell the server your height but reports that you are live. The height that is reported is the last height reported by build. Poll can be run independently when desired to stay live on the status page during farm command with high –set_height_interval</p>
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<p>Rewards have been implemented during the testing process of the Storj applications. Rewards will be advertised but the breakdown and rules governing are subject to change as the project evolves. Rewards are present to provide motivation/incentive for participation in the tests. Rewards are NOT payment for testing. Rewards are NOT equivalent to mining rewards.</p>
<p>At the present time each payout address must have a minimum of 10,000 SJCX to qualify for rewards and upon request any address that was not affiliated with the crowdsale, will have to have 10,000 SJCX donated to the rewards pool to qualify for future rewards. There is NO guarantee of rewards equaling or exceeding the 10,000 SJCX donation.</p>
<p>Rewards are calculated using a fair methodology that looks at available data at the time of snapshots such as capacity and SJCX holdings and via server tracking of data such as duration of registered address, uptime and audit success. The criteria and timing of rewards snapshots or tracking will be advertised in advance.</p>
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<p>That’s easy, just follow all the instructions regarding running the client and ignore instructions about funding your payout address. You still want to set up a counterwallet address as there may be rewards issued that are not tied to SJCX holdings. You wouldn’t want to miss out. Also, once Storj goes live, you will need to have a payout address that you have control over the private keys.</p>
<p>There is no requirement for holding SJCX just to participate in the testing, only the rewards are tied to SJCX holdings. </p>
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<p>At this stage in testing and until peer-to-peer data transfers are tested, dataserv-client locally generates empty containers, inflated to 128MB (friendly size) each. These empty containers are “shards”. The build portion of the farm command will create a predetermined number of shards based on your --max_size setting. Shards are encrypted using SHA 256 hashes. Each shared hash is created determinalistically based on the seed. At the present time that seed is your payout address. In the future, there may be an option to create shards using your auth address as the seed (please stay tuned for that option and how to utilize it). </p>
<p>What deterministic shard/hash creation means is that any build using a specific payout address will create the same shards in the same order. While not tested, multiple builds to the same payout address may pose issues with the audit function. It is therefore advised that multiple builds be created to different payout addresses.</p>
<p>Your height, as reported at <a href="https://status.driveshare.org/api/online/json" class="link">https://status.driveshare.org/api/online/json</a> is based on the number of shards that you are reporting live to the server (read build and poll definitions). Only the shards that have been reported to the server by the build function and then reported as live by the poll function will appear in your height.</p>
<p>The storage capacity reported on <a href="https://driveshare.org/status.html" class="link">https://driveshare.org/status.html</a> is a derivative of your height. The current calculation uses the friendly 8000 shards per TB (800 shards per 100GB, 8 shards per GB).</p>
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<p>The friendly method of determining drive size or file size is by multiplying by 1000 (ie 1KB = 1000 bytes). In actuality, the real multiplier is 1024 (ie 1KB = 1024 bytes). The same ratio is always present. 1TB =1024 GB, 1GB =1024MB, 1MB = 1024KB. The confusion that often happens is when both friendly and actual sizes are referenced together, or when a friendly size is referenced and the means of checking said size use actual bytes.</p>
<p>For the purposes of Storj and the DriveShare test groups, both have been used. 128MB, the size of a shard, is referenced with a friendly file size (actual size is 134,2117,728 bytes = 128*1024*1024). The current display on the status page also uses the friendly method to display capacity. Formerly, the status page did display actual capacity. As mentioned above the number of shards divided by 8000 will give your friendly size, however, number of shards divided by 8192 will give you your actual size.</p>
<p>Further complicating this file size/drive capacity issue is the fact that many OSs and external drive devices will hold a certain amount of drive space in reserve (buffers, error protection, etc). This space isn’t visible to the user and should not be utilized (it is there for drive health).</p>
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<p><strong>PAYOUT ADDRESS:</strong> A payout address is an address that you set in the client and should be your counterwallet address (<a href="https://counterwallet.io" class="link">https://counterwallet.io</a> or <a href="https://counterwallet.coindaddy.io" class="link">https://counterwallet.coindaddy.io</a>). You will need to transfer your funds from any exchange to your counterwallet address.</p>
<p><strong>IMPORTANT NOTICE: TO ENSURE ACCESS, SJCX HOLDINGS MUST BE HELD IN AN ADDRESS FOR WHICH YOU HOLD THE PRIVATE KEY. COUNTERWALLET IS THE RECOMMENDED SITE AND EXCHANGE ADDRESSES ARE STRONGLY DISCOURAGED. STORJ LABS IS NOT LIABLE IF YOU LOSE ACCESS TO YOUR FUNDS OR THE DRIVESHARE CLIENT/SERVER.</strong></p>
<p>Your payout address is currently the seed for the SHA 256 hashes/shards.</p>
<p>It is your payout address that will be tracked for rewards purposes and should be an address that you control. Your payout address is what you will see on the status pages and how you can track your progress/standings <a href="https://driveshare.org/status.html" class="link">https://driveshare.org/status.html</a> or <a href="https://status.driveshare.org/api/online" class="link">https://status.driveshare.org/api/online</a></p>
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<p>Rewards are an incentive provided by the developers of the Storj project to encourage participation in the testing process and should NOT be considered a form of payment or a form of return on investment. Rewards are NOT guaranteed. The structure of, timing of and amount of rewards are subject to change during the testing.</p>
<p><strong>Qualifying for Rewards – Step 1:</strong></p>
<p>To qualify for rewards the first step is to possess 10,000 SJCX in your payout address. Compliance with this requirement will be tracked through <a href="http://blockscan.com" class="link">http://blockscan.com</a> and in order to ensure that you are compliant it is advised that any transactions be made 24 hours prior to any deadlines, snapshot or donations request to ensure that the transaction will appear on the blockchain.</p>
<p><strong>Qualifying for Rewards – Step 2a: Crowdsale Participants</strong></p>
<p>For those that participated in the Crowdsale, simply holding 10,000 SJCX in your payout address will qualify you for full rewards. Holding >0 but <10,000 SJCX will qualify a Crowdsale participant for partial rewards. The fraction of full rewards will be determined by the developers, but will be a maximum of the percentage of 10,000 SJCX held.</p>
<p><strong>Qualifying for Rewards – Step 2b: Non-Crowdsale Participants</strong></p>
<p>For non-crowdsale participants there will be a request for donations prior to TGB M3-2 (test group b, milestone 3, part 2). Prior to this request, qualification for rewards is the same as for crowdsale participants. Once the request is made, qualification for rewards is dependent on a donation of 10,000 SJCX to the rewards pool. There will be a window to donate prior to the commencement of TGB M3-2 testing & tracking. There is NO partial rewards for non-crowdsale members. A donation entitles a non-crowdsale participant to full rewards based on their stats.</p>
<p>A non-crowdsale participant does not need to both donate and hold 10K SJCX during TGB M3-2 to qualify for rewards. Only the donation is required for rewards qualification.</p>
<p>There is NO guarantee that any participant, crowdsale or otherwise, will receive 10,000 SJCX (or any amount for that matter) in rewards during TGB M3-2</p>
<p>Policies have not been announced at the present time as to requirements for holding or donations for future test groups. Once announced, this information will be updated. Any statements about these policies are unofficial or speculative until announced officially.</p>
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<p>We are not paying farmers at the current time. Storj is currently in development, and running Test Group B, which issues rewards in SJCX. When Storj and its component programs are live, each farmer will be able to decide how much to charge for their services, creating a competitive marketplace.</p>
<p>The rewards given to people who participate in testing are NOT a form of payment, and no guarantee of earnings can be given at this time.</p>
<p>One million SJCX will be distributed for Test Group B. As of January 21st, 2016, 600,000 of these had already been granted. You can look at the data of the rewards to Test Group B <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dZYzMrW0i4qtonDIjk3pfwkKv6rHCOuUc7rUurIRPqU/" class="link">here</a>. (All rewards data will be made publicly available like this.)</p>
<p>You can inspect the mathematical formula used to compute rewards <a href="https://github.com/Storj/sjcx-payments/blob/master/README.rst" class="link">here</a>.</p>
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<p>An audit is a validation process that looks at the shards you have in your --store_path and ensures that A.) the SHA 256 hashes match the payout address (seed) and B.) all the hashes that should be present are present (read build definition). To be a valid build, shards/hashes must pass audits. Audits will be a part of TGB M3-2 and moving forward.</p>
<p>Once live peer-to-peer data transfers start, audits will be used to verify that all data a given address is “contracted” to hold is present. Failed audits may lead to loss of contract and profit in a live launch scenario.</p>
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<p>First, during the testing process, data is locally generated and the only network traffic is from your client to the server (pings). That means that you need to be actively running farm (or farm with high --set_interval_value and a separate terminal running poll) to show up on the status pages.</p>
<p>Once live peer-to-peer data transfers start, audits will be used to verify that all data a given address is “contracted” to hold is present. Failed audits may lead to loss of contract and profit in a live launch scenario.</p>
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<p><a href="https://driveshare.org/status.html" class="link">https://driveshare.org/status.html</a> - shows payout address, when you last pinged the server & capacity in TB (height/8000) - User Friendly Version</p>
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<p><a href="https://status.driveshare.org/api/online" class="link">https://status.driveshare.org/api/online</a> - shows payout address, when you last pinged the server & your height (number of shards)</p>
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<p><a href="https://status.driveshare.org/api/online/json" class="link">https://status.driveshare.org/api/online/json</a> - shows payout address, auth address, when you last pinged the server & your height (this json actually drives the information of the other sites)</p>
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<p><a href="http://storjtracker.com" class="link">http://storjtracker.com</a> - shows your payout address, when you last pinged the server, your verified SJCX holdings & your capacity in GB (this page was created by linuxman21)</p>
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<p>Efforts have been made within the dataserv-client to automatically restart build and poll functions, but there are times when an error causes the program to stop completely.</p>
<p>Unsanctioned approaches can be used to restart the dataserv-client in these cases. They include batch files with repeating loops (there is currently a set of windows batch files pinned to #test_group_b on Slack), including either batch file or fully arguemented command string in your operating system startup, StorjTrackr which can help you to monitor your build(s) <a href="https://github.com/jaylagorio/StorjTrackr/releases" class="link">https://github.com/jaylagorio/StorjTrackr/releases</a> and a GUI currently in early testing <a href="https://github.com/Storj/driveshare-gui" class="link">https://github.com/Storj/driveshare-gui</a></p>
<p>In the future some of these features may be added to the client, but at this time, you use such unsanctioned approaches at your own risk/benefit. Storj Labs and the developers will not guarantee the functionality of any approach and base all rewards distributions on available and verifiable data (ie, saying you were online or had SJCX is not verifiable and will not be considered proof).</p>
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<p>WARNING dataserv_client.messaging 57: HTTP Error 401: UNAUTHORIZED</p>
<p>INFO dataserv_client.messaging 78: Query retry in 30 seconds.</p>
<p>While not always the case, many of these 401 Unauthorized errors are associated with your local clock being out of sync with the server clock. For security reasons, the current server-side application only allows a 15 second offset from the ping time to the time that ping is received. In typical situations, pings should take only milliseconds, but if clocks are not synced, this time can appear much larger.</p>
<p>To resolve this issue, you should take measures to sync your clock with internet time (methods vary and you should research your specific operating system to ensure that your clock is synced). It is possible, over time, for a synced clock to fall out of sync with internet time, so either this process will need to be repeated or periodic syncing done via software.</p>
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<p>There are two different sets of communications you should be looking for to check for proper functionality. If you are seeing this, then you are running properly.</p>
<p>During build portion of farm (hashes vary at each step):</p>
<p>INFO dataserv_client.builder 108: Resuming from height 116977</p>
<p>INFO dataserv_client.builder 131: Saving seed 56793d6abb4598Udjec379d65f1dfb1d352d11d3111358a35b99cbd9f94f35 with SHA-256 hash 636a241bcf263f91e63739523dc6cd6abb45b8735466e0b1885f1dec15abea.</p>
<p>INFO dataserv_client.builder 131: Saving seed e207af815ca541cd6abb45e832806f6c4128f9ed2a5230616a581d300d29e32a0 with SHA-256 hash a66d648dc69afb01bda363c1cd6abb45b2f62110a0c15468cbafc4780b2c827d.</p>
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<p>INFO dataserv_client.api 200: Build finished</p>
<p>INFO dataserv_client.api 135: Pinging server 'httsp://status.driveshare.org' at 2015-09-20 21:16:16.</p>
<p>INFO dataserv_client.messaging 43: Query: https://status.driveshare.org/api/ping/<auth address appears here>></p>
<p>INFO dataserv_client.api 135: Pinging server 'https://status.driveshare.org' at 2015-09-20 21:17:17.</p>
<p>INFO dataserv_client.messaging 43: Query: https://status.driveshare.org/api/ping/<auth address appears here>></p>
<p>Many errors will not cause the program to stop but will timeout for 30 seconds and try again. If your terminal returns to the command prompt, you should check the last error and either find a resolution at one of the available resources <a href="https://github.com/Storj/dataserv-client" class="link">Github</a> or <a href="http://slack.storj.io/">Slack</a>.</p>
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<p>During testing, the simple answer is no. Since we aren’t dealing with any real data and network traffic is minimal (outbound pings only), adding redundancy such as RAID 1 or 5, will only reduce your capacity and not provide any real benefits to you. All files are locally generated during testing (to-date) and once your build is complete, drive activity will be drastically reduced.</p>
<p>Once testing progresses to a point where there is actual data being shared, the question become a bit murky, but redundancy still may not be worth the loss of capacity. Depending on the structure and network activity expected during later testing phases, you might want to start considering local redundancy.</p>
<p>Once Storj does go live, there will be redundancy at a network level, with multiple farmers holding each shard. That redundancy protects the user’s data but doesn’t protect the farmer from drive failures or data corruption. At that point, local redundancy may be appealing but is a decision that must be weighed against storage capacity loss, likelihood of drive failure, drive activity, and many other variables. For those with large amount of storage and high demand clients, it might be beneficial to have local redundancy to protect your investment.</p>
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<p>The easy answer here is yes, it is possible to farm/build to multiple paths using a single payout address? The caveat to that statement is that at the present time, only the largest of those builds counts toward your rewards (this may change in the near future).</p>
<p>In order to build to multiple paths, you will need to create two separate builds. There are two basic methods for doing this.</p>
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<li><p>Farm/build from the same computer to two unique file paths (not on the same drive)</p></li>
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<li><p><strong>NOTE: This is the same method you would use if you wanted multiple builds from the same computer but pointing to different payout addresses.</strong></p></li>
<li><p>Run dataserv-client with --config_path <your complete path including file name> as the first argument in ALL command lines</p></li>
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<li><p>In Windows: C:\users\<username>\.storj\</p></li>
<li><p>In Linux: $HOME/.storj (e.g. /home/<username>/.storj)</p></li>