Bringing the Blockchain to Our Homes
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Functionland’s Box aims to remove the barriers to using the power of blockchain
The terms crypto, blockchain and web3 frighten people. They sound too complex, seem disruptive to existing workflows or appear too difficult to use. Then there is the need to grasp crypto-currencies that are needed to pay for services on the Blockchain. The myriad of currencies, variability in token values and gas fees need customer education, especially for business people or non technical stakeholders. For some the waves of innovation and the cycles of technology are just too dizzying. Alfonso summarizes these challenges neatly in his blog post.
Consumers and Enterprises have just begun to understand the cloud and some are in the early stages of their hybrid cloud journey, So, to ask them to make a U-Turn requires justification and a pain point. The solution needs to remove barriers to blockchain adoption. When we bring blockchain into our homes or offices where people can feel their value, adoption and comfort will come naturally.
Abstraction and Ease of Use
Most blockchain and web3 technologies begin with a whitepaper, so they have deep, under the hood technical information in their documentation. However, this is an inside out view of how the tech works for the practitioners, developers and technical decision makers. For end users, any solution leveraging the blockchain needs to be brain dead simple to use. This is an area of development for web3 and these are early days.
In the wave of virtualization of hardware, we went from physical machines to hypervisors running multiple VMs. At that time, it was difficult for enterprises and teams to understand configuration, resource allocation and provisioning. Enterprise buyers would ask for hardware appliances pre-provisioned with VM configurations for needed resources. This in a sense, went counter to the spirit of virtualization. Enterprises have inertia and do not like to change workflows. Similarly as management and control planes for services moved to the cloud, there was resistance. Enterprises would ask for a hardware appliance on-prem that only did manageability. Likewise in the consumer space, it took an iPhone to bring the power of applications to our fingertips. These apps were already running in the cloud, but the iPhone put these apps within reach as the PC or the Mac made it easy to connect to any network and leverage the power of the cloud.
Box from Functionland is designed from the get go to remove barriers to adoption by consumers. It brings storage attached to the blockchain into people’s homes, like the iPhone brought apps to the fingertips.
Box – intuitively simple to use, plug and play into BAS
Box is a plug and play hardware solution that can be deployed in the smallest of homes. It is modular and expandable for those that want to scale up capacity within their homes. Box devices are designed to scale out to create a storage pool delivered across users. Users can plug in hard drives to expand capacity. They are also able to make storage available to other consumers outside of their household.
The software running on Box delivers Blockchain attached storage that stores data in an immutable file system. Data is stored in a highly redundant and available configuration across the blockchain network. Unlike the cloud, there is no single point of failure.
Users need to have no understanding of the blockchain itself to be able to use the platform. To use the service, they install applications on the mobile phone, similar to Google Photos, but instead of talking to a centralized cloud service, the app is talking to Box and the blockchain network where the photos are stored securely and privately.
All data transactions are performed under the hood with no intervention from the users. The FULA token is minted by capacity made available to the network and depleted for those that consume storage. Creating storage liquidity pools is as simple as adding more capacity or more Box devices.
Box is completely decentralized, there are no middlemen involved and it is easy to get started as a provider or a consumer. Data is stored across a set of independent Box devices, which removes the risk of losing privacy or ceding control over the data in the hands of one large company.
Box makes it possible to harness the power and potential of the blockchain. It provides an easy-to-use plug-and-play scalable solution. It can be deployed by anyone whether to consume themselves or as a provider of storage to those that need it.
To learn more, visit indiegogo.fx.land and participate in the indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to start providing and consuming pictures over blockchain attached storage.
