How to run a satellite node?

[jammerdan]

But it is a technical solution they might be happy to have students spend a semester or seminars or oven write a thesis or something.
There are so many extraodinary tech university in in the US, I cannot beleive you would not find one prof who would be interested to solve some of the problems with his studends.

[Alexey]

The solution is simple - run any consensus algorithm in the LAN, then it can be used as a distributed database… Or even private Storj. But it’s not what’s needed, because why try to invent a wheel?
We use a distributed database CocroachDB, it’s running globally already. However, we cannot run it on untrusted nodes…
So, if you want to have an encrypted distributed fast database running on untrusted nodes, you are out of options. No one solution is exist so far.

[Alexey]

Thanks for your idea!
The decentralized auditors are suggested here:

Distribute audits across storagenodes

I’ve been wondering whether some of the tasks a satellite performs can be distributed across nodes. Mainly auditing and repairing. I took some time to outline a possible solution for distributed auditing first since that seemed less complicated. Turns out it was longer than I expected, so I’ll leave the challenge to tackle repair for some other day. I’m sure there are holes in this approach that I overlooked, so don’t hold back, I can take it. Idea also posted here: https://ideas.storj…

Could you please add your idea there?
Or I can move your post there.

This will not solve the problem, but may help to make the satellite being more decentralized than now.
The core problem with a distributed database would remain unsolved though, but we can move further step by step.

[Mitsos]

I think to keep the discussion structured (so that it makes sense), the best way would be for the replies to be moved there. Thank you in advance.

[Alexey]

Please, do not hesitate to share your ideas, how to make it more decentralized!

P.S. Perhaps it will be solved itself, when we can speedup our network to be faster than a local storage.

[Toyoo]

@jammerdan

Ever thought of teaming up with universities and IT-Students to work on that?

Companies much bigger than Storj were funding this kind of research already. Any breakthrough that would allow getting rid of the consensus requirements would be worth a Turing Award.

[Alexey]

@Mitsos

If everyone else is willing to store data on a blockchain (which is a distributed database)

See

Is it possible to link the uploaded data with the mined block hash value?

Storing data on blockchain is too expensive and inefficient as for upload and for the access. The only small chunks of data can be stored on blockchain and also in most cases they are immutable, i.e. you can’t delete or edit it. To make change you must generate the next block with that change. It’s not fast. And also the size of the blockchain will include all world data, at the moment it’s greater than 460 Exabytes. And you would need to store it on the each node in the network, because blockc…

It will not help, if it’s slow. And It’s slow as now. And become slower and slower with each added node. No go.
If someone invent a consensus algorithm (or anything else), will get at least a

@Toyoo

would be worth a Turing Award .

And all funds in the world.