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Is there any encrypted cloud storage that we can pay with Bitcoin?⁉️🍊
1111 sats \ 26 comments \ @flat24 29 Dec 2024 bitcoin
I have a question, since I have been using Google Drive to store information, it is mainly used by my wife to store our family treasures (photos of our daughter and our life).
Understanding that the Stackers on SN. They are more advanced in terms of privacy, security and Bitcoin.
Asked: Is there any encrypted cloud storage that we can pay with BITCOIN and that is more friendly than Google with the security and privacy of our files??
It would be great to find something like Mullvad VPN it does not require data to register, you only use a Numeric ID and you can pay in both Bitcoin and Monero
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150 sats \ 1 reply \ @NostrDevTeam 29 Dec 2024
Proton Drive sounds like what you are looking for
https://proton.me
Once you’ve created your account, you can purchase credits with cash, bank transfers, or Bitcoin.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 OP 29 Dec 2024
Thank you very much for now, the options I have seen have been
  • Proton
  • Internxt as the most accessible, I will continue searching and delving into this new rabbit hole of having a "own and decentralized cloud."
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54 sats \ 3 replies \ @pillar 29 Dec 2024
Options I can think of:
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11 sats \ 2 replies \ @flat24 OP 29 Dec 2024
Great contribution... you've just given me the level to climb
  1. proton.
  2. rent a server for my use.
  3. set up my own cloud.
Thank you very much, I continue on the path of learning everything we need.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @028559d218 29 Dec 2024
We are always learning. Cheers.
BTW if you want a free proton wallet invite... my email is in my profile. Shoot me an email and i'll send you an invite to go with your new drive ;)
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @pillar 29 Dec 2024
That's a good way to look at it!
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 29 Dec 2024
I believe OpenSecret is worth mentioning but it seems to be a developer platform and not a product meant to be used by end users. But @marks, @TonyGiorgio and @futurepaul know more.
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40 sats \ 16 replies \ @DarthCoin 29 Dec 2024
Instead of paying for such service you better invest / put your money into a personal NAS (Qnap or Synology) and use that one for your own "cloud", at home or wherever you want to host it. You can access it from anywhere you want with restricted access only for you or your family.
YOUR sever = YOUR data.
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52 sats \ 5 replies \ @Skipper 29 Dec 2024
I disagree with this 'cloud' bullshit.
Why do people even need clouds in the first place?
Just use Syncthing app to sync the files between your phone and laptop, it's such a simple and elegant solution.
When i'm outside, my phone has all my files—and when i'm inside, my laptop also has all my files. Everything is synced.
Cloud solutions (like Proton Drive) are only really useful for emergency backups.
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55 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 29 Dec 2024
Do you know what is a NAS ?
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @f6287b82CC84bcbd 30 Dec 2024
Syncthing is nice if you got a spare tablet or old phone too. Your own storage so maximum sovereignty
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11 sats \ 2 replies \ @Signal312 30 Dec 2024
Interesting, never heard of the Syncthing app. I assume I could have a folder on my laptop, and synch it (or just certain files) to my phone?
It looks like the developer is not going to do android releases anymore, he's unhappy with Google Play.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @f6287b82CC84bcbd 30 Dec 2024
Hopefully he can use fdroid.
Android devices are nice, as long as all the google stuff is removed. GrapheneOS ftw
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Skipper 30 Dec 2024
There's a new fork
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11 sats \ 9 replies \ @flat24 OP 29 Dec 2024
YOUR sever = YOUR data.
Thank you very much. I guess that is the way to go. "Have my own server or my own cloud" For now my knowledge and resources are limited, so I must opt for a less technical solution that will solve the need in the short term. Thanks anyway for your wisdom.
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11 sats \ 7 replies \ @Skipper 29 Dec 2024
I guess that is the way to go
No. Save your sats. You don't need to pay for cloud providers or personal NAS hardware.
Save your sats! They are precious.
Read my comment above—Just use Syncthing.
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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @DarthCoin 29 Dec 2024
No, you are wrong, some people need more than just few folders between a dummy laptop and a mobile. Also sometimes is needed to share with other people or family multiple folders. What you are talking is just for few images and shit.
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11 sats \ 5 replies \ @Skipper 29 Dec 2024
sometimes is needed to share with other people
If you need to share files with other people (outside your close family), sure... that makes sense.
But the OP mentioned his wife, they are living together(i assume), Syncthing would work just fine for them. Their photos would always be synced when they are at home (on the same network).
What you are talking is just for few images and shit.
I've got 350 GB of files synced between my phone and laptop, via Syncthing. Both of them have 512 GB of total disk.
Clouds are a noobie trap. Personal NAS only makes sense if you've got huge amounts of GB files. For most people(normies) Syncthing is enough.
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10 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 29 Dec 2024
Is not about the amount of GB... There are many ways to use a shared NAS and people need various type of access, but seems that you do not understand that or never worked in such environment.
ofc using a bullshit hosted cloud it doesn't make sense, but a home NAS is a powerful tool if you know how to use it. Is not only about sharing some dummy files.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Skipper 29 Dec 2024
I'm focusing on the OP simple use case: storing some information and sharing photos with his wife.
He didn't mention anything else.
Syncthing is the easiest most elegant solution for him and is wife imho.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @flat24 OP 30 Dec 2024
@DarthCoin @Skipper Many thanks to both of you for this great debate full of good information that invites me to continue discovering more things that I still don't know about. I will investigate more about both solutions to find a solution to my family's need.
I understand that it is good to have powerful storage at home and that's it. Sicornizing a laptop and phone is not a bad option, but the option of having encrypted files on the Internet, in this case the cloud, is not ruled out either. So that we can access them from anywhere in the world. Even if we have lost our phone or laptop. With the keys or codes that unlock the information, we can have it again, even if we lost the physical backups (laptop and phone).
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 29 Dec 2024
If you plan for a long term and a lot of personal data, a personal NAS is the way to go. If you want to use this "sharing" data only sporadically, with few people, then are many services for file sharing, even free, for example:
You can play both ways, depending what do you want share and how.
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6 sats \ 0 replies \ @BeeAye 29 Dec 2024
proton drive
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @FallingD02 30 Dec 2024
Thank you very much for asking this question, which provided a lot of valuable content for further learning and research.
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