Blockchain technology has the potential to disrupt the cloud storage space. Sia and Storj have lower costs, enhanced security and privacy features as compared to centralized storage solutions.

Blockchain technology is a decentralized and distributed digital ledger that records transactions across multiple computers or nodes. It was originally introduced as the underlying technology for the ...

What is blockchain storage and why should cryptocurrency investors care? In layman's terms, it's a decentralized version of the traditional web's cloud services. Mostly used by developers rather than ...

Researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University have developed Dynamic-EC, a new blockchain storage method that significantly reduces storage overhead—by up to 42%—and increases data processing speeds ...

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MicroCloud Hologram Inc. has announced the launch of a blockchain-based edge storage system designed to enhance data circulation efficiency while ensuring data security and integrity. This system ...

Until blockchain can produce an easily accessible, trustworthy model that clearly outshines cloud in security, it will be in catch-up mode. The blockchain industry, historically tied directly to ...

Since Edward Snowden whistleblew on the NSA’s data mining project PRISM in 2013, the public outcry over how personal data is collected, stored and used has not been front page news. However, with this ...

Move over cloud and traditional in-house enterprise data center storage, distributed storage based on blockchain may be arriving imminently. If you thought cloud storage was digging in its heels to ...

Web3 — the third generation of the internet — refers to a decentralized and distributed version of the web that uses blockchain technology, and other decentralized technologies, to enable greater user ...

Emerging now: P2P networks that use blockchain to manage cloud storage based on the sharing of excess drive and network capacity on PCs and in data centers. Those who share capacity get free storage – ...

In November 2019, security firm Risk Based Security called last year the “worst year on record” for breaches, with almost 8 billion records affected. Third-party control over personal data makes ...