WOW another really good cryptocurrency to look at if you are a criminal. I laugh at how well people who are nefarious in nature have options to hide what they do and keep track of things. The website in question is https://storj.io/ . If you as a criminal want to hide files from the authorities you use this service and boom your files are spread over many different places and encrypted. Even if it were possible to reconstitute the data, without the encryption key you will never be able to see what the files say. You can use almost anything to store the key. Also the key can be incredibly long so a brute force attack will be impossible.
The first step to be able to store your files is find a place to buy the coin. There are many exchanges to buy this ERC20 Toekn. The following article does a great job explaining what ERC20 tokens are blockgeeks.com/guides/ethereum-token/ . Next is to get a wallet to store your coins you can use an application called Exodus download here www.exodus.io . If you would like to buy some go to the following three links https://etherdelta.github.io/#STORJ-ETH , https://liqui.io/#/exchange/STORJ_BTC, https://tidex.com/exchange/waves/storj . You can also use Exodus to trade for tokens with other crypto currencies in you wallet. . This application is an external wallet that allows you to trade inside of it from one currency to another.
You may ask how this is useful if you need a wallet. If you back up your wallet on a drive and place this backup in a safe place you can always get back to your files even if you wipe the drive that contains the wallet of course you need to make sure you remember the password. So after you wipe your drive for any local evidence, your distributed evidence will also be impossible to get without the wallet backup and password. How simple it is to hide your stuff from prying eyes.
This service is much different than Box, Dropbox, and other services of the like because your data is in potentially thousands and thousands of locations. None of these locations have enough bits of data to reconstitute your information. This way your files are super secure and encrypted.
Imagine what you can keep on these drives. You can keep corporate secrets, state secrets, and more. I am sure you just saw I said state secrets. The cool thing about Storj is it has an API which you can attach an application to it. This application can be programmed to only hide data on certain types of machines with the correct handshake with the application, and thus securing the data only where is desired. There is huge potential for this technology the sky is the limit and even then well past.
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