Storj

This is absurdly ambitious. Love it.

Like ideas like this. Assume this is going to use an independant blockchain vs. the Bitcoin blockchain?

That was a use case for Ethereum: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki...

Storj has a big potential to take over some of the market from Amazon and Google by decentralizing the cloud storage especially given all the recent concerns about data privacy and people becoming more reluctant to have their data stored by large corporations.