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With a praise-worthy and avant-garde concept behind it, Storj is an exciting community-powered platform that aims to provide its users with a slightly different storage philosophy.

The main goal here is to bring a decentralized and very secure cloud storage platform to everyday users who are willing to allocate a part of their available hard disk space for storing network data, a concept dubbed drive farming.

The whole manner involves yet two other interesting concepts. The first one is cryptocurrency, yet not in its classical sense. Basically, you can make money by sharing your computer's HDD free space in exchange for STORJ coin, a cryptocurrency similar to Ethereum.

Evidently, this might raise some valid security-related concerns, but fortunately, thanks to various smart blockchain and cryptographic hash functions, the platform solves all the security issues involved. Basically, your files are split into multiple "pieces," then encrypted, and then distributed for storage across the Storj network.

Of course, since there's no central/dominant server and thanks to all other adjacent employed security technologies, you are always in full control of the keys used to encrypt your files.

Having the basic concepts made clear, we can now turn our attention to the platform's two main components. The first one is the Storj web app which allows you to securely store files, and the second one is the platform's official client dubbed Storj Share.

This nifty, little client built with web technologies allows you to share excess hard-drive space (as little or as much as it may be)  in return for Storj Token, an ERC20 token.

The app itself is pretty nice since it's easy to install, it features taskbar integration and, best of all, it offers to help first-time users get their bearings via intuitive guides and tutorials. You're required to provide your STORJ address with a wallet (a secure ERC20 wallet address) in order to receive the payments.

More information about creating a new wallet is available on the app's official website and the FAQ section might also be worthy of your attention. Even though Storj Share is only used to receive payments, you might also be interested in checking out the storage-related prices, as well.

Other than that, you're bound to find Storj Share as being an intuitive application with a main window that allows you to add new drives and keep an eye on the status of all storage sharing tasks.

All things considered, it's safe to say that Storj is without a doubt a very interesting platform that's off to a great start, Its official client Storj Share has a fundamental role to play in what might very well become the most profitable and most secure cloud storage alternatives out there.