Re:Storj – Blockchain-based decentralized storage network
by super3 on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @06:33PM
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Whitepaper briefly goes over this. The user or application software get to decide their replication number N. The network is self healing, as in if a portion of a file misses a heartbeat(check in) the network will recover it from the other peices.
To affect a file large amount of nodes would have to go down simultaneously. Again the user has control over this
N = 1 - Data failure
N = 3 - Good for just average cases. Probably still Sybil attacks possible if the have 20-30% of the network.
N = 100 - Are you expecting tactical nuclear strikes or acts of God?
Cool thing is if you increase redundancy to a large number Storj starts to act like a CDN or torrent network. But thats outside the scope of your question.
To affect a file large amount of nodes would have to go down simultaneously. Again the user has control over this N = 1 - Data failure N = 3 - Good for just average cases. Probably still Sybil attacks possible if the have 20-30% of the network. N = 100 - Are you expecting tactical nuclear strikes or acts of God?
Cool thing is if you increase redundancy to a large number Storj starts to act like a CDN or torrent network. But thats outside the scope of your question.