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This is a story about how three developers, inspired by the movement towards <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/decentralization" target="_blank">decentralization</a>, built an experimental, decentralized <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/cloud" target="_blank">cloud</a> storage system. My goal in writing this is not only to explain some of the core challenges we faced and how we solved them, but to introduce readers to the problem space of decentralized cloud storage in general.