I totally agree. I am not seeing Storj operating data centers. I mean the whole point of Storj is not to operate data centers.
That’s why I made the suggestion in that thread to lay ingesting off to professional SNOs where I of course meant those professional Data Centers that Storj at least has thought about to partner with.
Yes it involves trust, yes encryption is a ‘problem’, yes it would involve coordination and probably additional coding and even hardware considerations. And yes, Storj is clearly not there at least from a technical standpoint. But if some large corp approaches Storj tomorrow and asks how to transfer large amounts of data, then Storj would have to decline. This is an undesirable result.
A bit of a hen and egg problem it seems. At least I think the way for such a service should be paved in preparation by considering and implementing this codewise and start tothink about what kind of partners, hardware and processes would be required to offer such a service.