MaidSafe was one of the promising early projects that was working on decentralized rented data storage. It looks like this project has changed quite a bit since I last saw it.

One puzzling feature that they are promoting is a pay once, store forever model. Maybe I'm missing something, but that would lead to more and more data being stored, without a way to pay the people hosting the data. This is similar to what Arweave is promising.

On top of that, their focus seems to be scattered between different initiatives. I don't get a sense that they have a clear direction and they seem to be working on a bunch of random projects.

So I'm not as excited about this project as I was in the beginning. There are better options out there.

MaidSafeCoin (MAID) is a cryptocurrency launched in 2014

MaidSafeCoin

MaidSafe was one of the promising early projects that was working on decentralized rented data storage. It looks like this project has changed quite a bit since I last saw it. 

One puzzling feature that they are promoting is a pay once, store forever model. Maybe I'm missing something, but that would lead to more and more data being stored, without a way to pay the people hosting the data. This is similar to what Arweave is promising. 

On top of that, their focus seems to be scattered between different initiatives. I don't get a sense that they have a clear direction and they seem to be working on a bunch of random projects. 

So I'm not as excited about this project as I was in the beginning. There are better options out there.

Tartarian

Safe Network is a new secure way that aims to access applications without compromising on data security.  Its aim of this project is to provide internet users to be completely anonymous browsing and download any data in the internet without and additional account from anywhere in the world.
The idea was amazing and its consider one of the earliest concept appear in to be decentralize in terms of data storage.

This network operates with its own token called MaidSafe (MAID) coin which use as a proxy token and later can be swapped into Safecoin when Safe Network goes live. MAID has a burning mechanism where it will be burnt each time sent to wallet with no private key, and this help to reduce the availability of the coin.
MAID are available for exchange in different assent on-chain by trading or swap,  but its not able to be farmed.

This project has loss its momentum and no updates after 2019. Looking forward to new update on this project on the next bull run!

Safe Network is a new secure way that aims to access applications without compromising on data security.  Its aim of this project is to provide internet users to be completely anonymous browsing and download any data in the internet without and additional account from anywhere in the world. 
The idea was amazing and its consider one of the earliest concept appear in to be decentralize in terms of data storage. 

This network operates with its own token called MaidSafe (MAID) coin which use as a proxy token and later can be swapped into Safecoin when Safe Network goes live. MAID has a burning mechanism where it will be burnt each time sent to wallet with no private key, and this help to reduce the availability of the coin.
MAID are available for exchange in different assent on-chain by trading or swap,  but its not able to be farmed. 

This project has loss its momentum and no updates after 2019. Looking forward to new update on this project on the next bull run!

MaidSafeCoin MAID

Data storage and communications network