How we store data is a crucial breakpoint in our current civilization. For most of our history with computers, data storage has been an unhygienic, wasteful mess. We write our data on hard disks, which promptly get lost, broken, or damaged.
Companies store their data on in-house servers, which can be compromised, broken, or hacked. These days, huge server farms owned by corporate entities hold most of the world’s data and make it available for access. A far neater solution, but one that comes with existential risk, as the data is no longer controlled by its owner. A single point of failure – readily exploited by companies on the sly – is the access they have to the data they can glean, and they are in charge of the protections they provide – some of which may be insufficient.
We’ve all seen large scale data hacks where millions of units of consumer data are stolen. We’ve seen companies lose data on a grand scale through operational failure, and we’ve seen data being used in a way it should not. The blockchain, the cryptographic principles of securing data, and the decentralised nature of the trust involved, mean it can act as the perfect substrate upon which to store data. Data stored this way can remain timeless, secure, unadulterated, and eternal. As there is no central failure point for the storage, and no one entity or person can access it who isn’t meant to, it creates a better way to ‘do’ data in the modern world, and a safer tapestry on which to weave our electronic second lives.
How Bank of Memories Uses Blockchain File Storage
Bank of Memories is a protocol that knows this. It understands both how important our data, and the security of our data, is. It also knows that the blockchain is the perfect way to solve the problems of modern data hygiene. Bank of Memories is a digital file storage platform built on Polygon that keeps your data safe and makes it accessible only to the trusted few given access through NFTs. It’s a way for families and other close knit groups to store data that is precious to them and private to them and which lets no other person ever see their communications (if they choose), and stores those communications in a way where they can’t be read by bots, it can’t be lost to failure, and it can’t be stolen by malicious actors.
It keeps the important data of a family safe, but it also does so much more. It acts as a platform for a family to interact and to grow their family tree. Users can find each other on the platform and connect up their family trees, expanding the horizons of their close knit social group. The platform also has a family vault where users with access (through giving of an NFT that acts a key) can see their shared family memories and upload new NFTs which can be enjoyed in stunning AR. It’s a new, private, safe space for families to connect and data is kept clean, safe, and isn’t trawled for data points by some outside third company.
Blockchain file storage opens up many new avenues for better use, and less misuse, of data. It can let people sleep safely in the knowledge that information they treasure is locked in the eternal family vault and it can never be compromised. Over time, the Bank of Memories platform will grow out new ways for users to connect to the people they care about and involve them in the world of web3. We don’t know what the future will bring, but we are safe in the knowledge of our memories of the past.
