In today’s fast-paced digital world keeping the privacy of your data, locked away in a safe place is harder than you think. Cloud storage solutions from big companies like Google or AWS go to great lengths to ensure the safety of your data. However, hackers seem to always be one step further than the companies, granted that they know where data centers are located, with some due diligence they can hack into the system and leak precious information all over the internet.

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Having the capabilities of these large corporations, you might away with such a breach but if you are a small sized company, chances are users will never entrust you with their data ever again. With blockchain technology, however, this issue will become more and more just a thing of the past.By storing your data in a decentralized system, hackers will have a hard time putting all the pieces together unless they own a quantum computer, a technology the currently resides only in Sci-Fi shows.

#### Casper Project: your ghost data!
The Casper project (http://www.casperproject.io) aims to become a reliable data and file storage system that’s based on a P2P (peer to peer) decentralized network, aimed at DApp (Decentralized Apps) developers. The main actors of this network are the storage solicitors and the storage vendors.

#### Storage Vendors
Any individual or company that has the hardware means to provide storage space on the Casper Network. These vendors will have the opportunity to band together in data centers that will facilitate higher throughput and low latency to the Casper network. In exchange for their services, vendors will be awarded CST tokens, an ERC20 based token that will leverage the power of Smart Contracts, holding all the involved parties accountable for their end of the bargain.

1 CST token will equal roughly 256 GB of storage on the Casper network. Using this business plan will put the centralized file storage systems out of business as they will not be able to compete with the prices that the Casper Network operates on.

#### Storage Solicitors
Individuals who want to use the Casper Network to store their data on a secure P2P system. Once the data is uploaded to the network, the solicitors can rest assured that their information is safe, as the storage vendors cannot access it due to the advanced network encryption algorithms. Full data redundancy is also a vital feature of the Casper Network. 

If for any reason any coupled hardware system decides to go rogue or off the grid, the Casper API will automatically re-route the “lost” data to a different storage vendor. This way, Casper implements an automated rating solution that is going to reward the most reliable storage vendors.

A robust governance system is set in place as well but without tampering with the heart of a genuinely decentralized blockchain system that’s meant to auto-regulate.

Safe data storage will always be in demand regardless of the trends or times. Projects like Casper are going to be vital for the sustainable growth of the emerging technologies.

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