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I think I was mistaken (but this should hint at the state of the landing page design), there is actually a simple explanation of what it is if you scroll: "The

I think I was mistaken (but this should hint at the state of the landing page design), there is actually a simple explanation of what it is if you scroll: "The ORC Project is a peer-to-peer network of computers that coordinate anonymously over Tor to allocate their unused hard disk capacity into a collective cloud. Developers can use the ORC network as an object storage platform in place of the popular cloud services offered by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Peers automatically pay each other based on storage used, bandwidth, and availability using the anonymous cryptocurrency Zcash for a fraction of the cost of using a traditional centralized cloud. In the ORC network, files are encrypted on the user's computer, shredded into smaller chunks, and then stored on many different computers around the world. Redundancy is achieved through the use of erasure codes so that your data can always be recovered even in the event of large network outages. ORC is completely decentralized, meaning that no single company or organization has control of your data, only you!"

digi_owl 9y ago
Sounds very much like Freenet...
- woodandsteel 9y ago
  Yeah, except it is all encrypted so only the person who owns the data can read it (unless of course they decide to make the key public), and you pay for the storage with zcash.
  - polle626 9y ago
    So basically it solves all Freenet problems?
    - woodandsteel 9y ago
      Well, from what I understand, Freenet is a total darknet, with things like sites, email, discussion boards, and so on, whereas ORC is focused just on storage. In fact, ORC is riding on top of tor hidden services, which is also a total darknet.
      - polle626 9y ago
        Freenet is not a "total darknet". It is a key-value storage basically. You can have immutable or mutable keys for data, and with these two things you can implement chat, sites, email, whatever. Freenet email does not implement the same protocols the outworld email does, nor can it communicate with outside emails, but since you must access it through a special client (not through you normal email client) it works.

digi_owl 9y ago

Sounds very much like Freenet...

woodandsteel 9y ago
Yeah, except it is all encrypted so only the person who owns the data can read it (unless of course they decide to make the key public), and you pay for the storage with zcash.
- polle626 9y ago
  So basically it solves all Freenet problems?
  - woodandsteel 9y ago
    Well, from what I understand, Freenet is a total darknet, with things like sites, email, discussion boards, and so on, whereas ORC is focused just on storage. In fact, ORC is riding on top of tor hidden services, which is also a total darknet.
    - polle626 9y ago
      Freenet is not a "total darknet". It is a key-value storage basically. You can have immutable or mutable keys for data, and with these two things you can implement chat, sites, email, whatever. Freenet email does not implement the same protocols the outworld email does, nor can it communicate with outside emails, but since you must access it through a special client (not through you normal email client) it works.