Maidsafe - a decentralized, autonomous and serverless internet

[Millard]

It's a decentralized alternative to cloud storage providers like Dropbox, iCloud and Google Drive. But it's much much more. It's a decentralized, autonomous and serverless internet:

Techcrunch article: http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/23/maidsafe/

A description from the Maidsafe website:

The SAFE (Secure Access for Everyone) network can be best described as a fully distributed data management service. This network manages static and dynamic data as well as communications. Importantly the data held is either :

1. Encrypted by clients
2. Cryptographically signed by clients

In either case the network cannot decrypt any of the data on the network. This can be thought of as a decentralized server that performs the tasks of today's httpd, ssh, scp, ftp, smtp, pop3, imap etc. servers.

The SAFE network is made up of unused hard drive space, CPU and communications capabilities of commodity computers. These computers are likely owned by the very users of the system, but need not be limited to that. Each computer will effectively mine for credits which can be traded for many other goods and services. These credits are called safecoin.

Source: http://maidsafe.net/overview