<p>It doesn't look like he ever released any code.  I think StorJ was more a concept than anything else.  The whole autonomous self-replication thing is probably a long ways off, but it's a neat idea.</p>

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2013-05-23T21:26:28.870Z
2013-05-23T21:26:28.870Z
Julian Goldsmith
<p>I wrote a version of this here: <a href="https://github.com/hughht5/fhba" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/hughht5/fhba</a></p>

<p>It does not have any autonomous self replicating features, but you can upload files and pay a fee to keep them online.</p>

<p>WARNING - currently no TX fees are paid so money paid to it will likely be lost.</p>

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2014-03-15T16:40:04.983Z
TX fees are now sorted. Give it a try if you like. (testnet still advised).
Hugh M Halford-Thompson
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2014-02-22T15:45:39.550Z
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Hugh M Halford-Thompson
<p>The closest I've seen to an implementation of this is the crypto-currency <a href="http://datacoin.info/" rel="nofollow">Datacoin</a>, where you pay for <strong>permanent</strong> data storage in datacoins. Once the payment's done and your data (in 4KB chunks) is committed to the blockchain, it'll be there for as long as the crypto-coin lasts.</p>

<p>Now then, except for perhaps religious texts or great masterpieces of world's literature I don't see much of a need in the world for permanent storage of anything.</p>

<p>StorJ was a very interesting idea, if a bit too ambitious. Probably a new crypto-coin should take its idea of <strong>temporary</strong> data storage and implement it over Datacoin's already existing framework, it'd be an order of magnitude more useful.</p>

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2014-02-22T16:00:27.350Z
2014-02-22T16:00:27.350Z
Joe Pineda
<p>StorJ itself was not advanced beyond the concept stage. There has been some attempts are implementing it (<a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=305476.0" rel="nofollow">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=305476.0</a>) but I'm not aware of anything concrete as of Jan 2014. </p>

<p>That said, people like Mike Hearm (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu4PAMFPo5Y" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu4PAMFPo5Y</a>) and Jeff Garzik (<a href="http://garzikrants.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/storj-and-bitcoin-autonomous-agents.html" rel="nofollow">http://garzikrants.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/storj-and-bitcoin-autonomous-agents.html</a>) have kept the discussion going.</p>

<p>Agents are now part of the official bitcoin wiki: <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Agents" rel="nofollow">https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Agents</a></p>

<p>As to why StorJ never saw the light of day, I think the practical implications of implementing an autonomous AI require technological developments going far beyond a distributed ledger and payment system. </p>

<p>For example, the online storage space is highly competitive, and services like Mega provide 'sufficiently good' service for 0 dollar. An AI could indeed be autonomous enough to efficiently lower its costs of operation assuming sufficiently developed 3rd party APIs, but for it to change its business model to freemium without human intervention is too much of a stretch as of 2014.</p>

<p>All is not lost. The recent concept of DAC seem to have taken the relay. See <a href="https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=f976bd25b056584eaab72a0f973d3a5f&amp;board=9.0" rel="nofollow">https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=f976bd25b056584eaab72a0f973d3a5f&amp;board=9.0</a> for a list of what people are currently conceptualising. </p>

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2014-01-05T15:15:30.307Z
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Stephan Tual
<p>gmaxwell posted this a few years ago:</p>

<p><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=53855.msg642768#msg642768" rel="nofollow">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=53855.msg642768#msg642768</a></p>

<p>What became of the project?</p>

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2015-01-28T20:25:22.240Z
Seems it turned into this: http://storj.io/index.html
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Is Storj still alive as a project?
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# Is Storj still alive as a project?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-05-23)

gmaxwell posted this a few years ago:

<https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=53855.msg642768#msg642768>

What became of the project?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Seems it turned into this: http://storj.io/index.html  

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## 4 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2013-05-23. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

It doesn't look like he ever released any code. I think StorJ was more a concept than anything else. The whole autonomous self-replication thing is probably a long ways off, but it's a neat idea.


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### Answer by username_3 on 2014-02-22. Score: 1

I wrote a version of this here: <https://github.com/hughht5/fhba>

It does not have any autonomous self replicating features, but you can upload files and pay a fee to keep them online.

WARNING - currently no TX fees are paid so money paid to it will likely be lost.

> **Comments:**
> **username_3**: TX fees are now sorted. Give it a try if you like. (testnet still advised).  

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### Answer by username_4 on 2014-02-22. Score: 0

The closest I've seen to an implementation of this is the crypto-currency [Datacoin](http://datacoin.info/), where you pay for **permanent** data storage in datacoins. Once the payment's done and your data (in 4KB chunks) is committed to the blockchain, it'll be there for as long as the crypto-coin lasts.

Now then, except for perhaps religious texts or great masterpieces of world's literature I don't see much of a need in the world for permanent storage of anything.

StorJ was a very interesting idea, if a bit too ambitious. Probably a new crypto-coin should take its idea of **temporary** data storage and implement it over Datacoin's already existing framework, it'd be an order of magnitude more useful.


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### Answer by username_5 on 2014-01-05. Score: 0

StorJ itself was not advanced beyond the concept stage. There has been some attempts are implementing it (<https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=305476.0>) but I'm not aware of anything concrete as of Jan 2014.

That said, people like Mike Hearm (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu4PAMFPo5Y>) and Jeff Garzik (<http://garzikrants.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/storj-and-bitcoin-autonomous-agents.html>) have kept the discussion going.

Agents are now part of the official bitcoin wiki: <https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Agents>

As to why StorJ never saw the light of day, I think the practical implications of implementing an autonomous AI require technological developments going far beyond a distributed ledger and payment system.

For example, the online storage space is highly competitive, and services like Mega provide 'sufficiently good' service for 0 dollar. An AI could indeed be autonomous enough to efficiently lower its costs of operation assuming sufficiently developed 3rd party APIs, but for it to change its business model to freemium without human intervention is too much of a stretch as of 2014.

All is not lost. The recent concept of DAC seem to have taken the relay. See <https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=f976bd25b056584eaab72a0f973d3a5f&board=9.0> for a list of what people are currently conceptualising.


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