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Skycoin AMA from Ark Slack Channel (synth)(2017)
Part 1 #
*boldninja* Let's all give a warm welcome to @synth from SkyCoin.net and for taking the time to do this AMA
*synth* *hello
*mike* Hi Synth
*jakethepanda* Hey @synth
*thrice.pi* Hey synth
*dr10* Hi
*boldninja* I think we can start – you guys know the drill. Give him some time to respond (no more than 2-3 questions on backlog so he can catch up)
*dr10* How would you – shortly & in easy words – sum-up the advantages of SkyCoin to magazines and non-crypto people?
*mgaruccio* Can you explain a bit about the mesh net? Is it just an mpls network between nodes or is there something deeper going on?
*michaelthecryptoguy* Whassup @synth
*tranzer* hi synth. I have a question – are those coins that are not in circulation in any cold wallets since only a portion is currently available according to CMC? What would you say is the 1 unique feature that Skycoin has?
*synth* It is very difficult, because Skycoin is a very large project and already has +6 years of development. Different parts of the project have different objectives.
The cryto, coin part is about solving the problems with the existing consensus algorithms. Being able to do +300 transactions a second, transactions in seconds instead of minutes (faster than credit cards), eliminating miners, eliminating block rewards (eliminating inflation) and eliminating 51% attack and the other problems with mining.
then there are other repos and experimental projects under github.com/skycoin such as a meshnet and distributed VPN prototype, where people will be paid coins for forwarding traffic. Also prototypes of distributed social media application, with peer to peer data replication and different experimental projects. Research into immutable data structures for next generation internet. Some of them are very radical.
*dr10* How does the Network consensus algorithm Obelisk work and differ from widely known algorithms like Proof of Work and Proof of Stake?
*mgaruccio* So how much exists today? Could I build an app on the platform if I wanted to?
*mike* In terms of the rate of progress, what is currently your greatest limiting factor – like funding, manpower, currently available technology?
Can you explain a bit about the mesh net? Is it just an mpls network between nodes or is there something deeper going on?
It is not actually a meshnet. It is software defined networking, it is much more powerful than just meshnet. Its a new type of networking and new completely new protocol and networking namespace, independent of the existing internet.
It supports source routing, while the existing internet does hot potato routing, so never achieves optimal latencies.
It supports multi-homing, which IPv6 does not (Which is critical for when we have gigabit or terabit networking and multi-redundant bandwidth paths)
It has default oppurunistic crypto, both link layer and end to end; so everything is encrypted by default, unlike the current internet.
It has store and forward networking and will operate in Africa or even under conditions where latencies are in the minutes or hours and packet loss is excessive. Where existing protocols cannot operate reliability. It is much more robust than IPv4/IPv6 or TCP/ip
It has improved privacy. If a packet takes a route that is 10 hops, each hop only knows the previous node in the route and the next node in the route. It is not like IPv4 where each packet gives the source and destination. The privacy level is something that does not exist on the current internet.
IP addresses are replaced by public key and no one can read traffic to a destination, without knowing the private key of the public key that identifies the destination. The system does not need 3rd parties or certificate authorities. The design is a revolution.
are those coins that are not in circulation in any cold wallets since only a portion is currently available according to CMC?
The coins are locked into 100 addresses, each with 1 million coins each. And they are released sequentially.
There is a complicated locking procedure and releasing new coins requires unamious consent and a shared secret among a group of developers. Anyone in the shared secret group can block distribution of more coins (to stop the problem that killed NXT). So by design the coins were supposed to be difficult to distribut, there had to be a good reason or justification before a distribution would be approved.
*mike* What are the hardware requirements to operate a wireless Skywire (the name for the protocol described above) Node?
*arc-over-water* nxt i think is doing ok..
How does the Network consensus algorithm Obelisk work and differ from widely known algorithms like Proof of Work and Proof of Stake?
PoS and PoW use miners. Miners receive new coins every block as a block reward. So miners are making money and will fight to control the network. An everyone will suffer because the newly created coins represent inflation.
Skycoin was designed to eliminate mining and eliminate the inflation. No block rewards, no new coins. And we needed to develop a new consensus algorithm to do that and there are only a few methods that work, for these constraints. The consensus algorithm is based upon Ben-Or's randomization procedure for achieving consensus in a distributed system, with some improvements for detecting adversarial or malicious nodes who are trying to prevent the consensus process.
There are white papers on skycoin.net about the specifics. I would call it "network consensus" and it uses a sort of Web of Trust (WoT), where if the people creating blocks are doing a bad job or attacking the network, then the community can get rid of them. At the same time, the people who control the network, do not have any real power to attack the network except by slowing down transactions and being annoying, so even if they become malicious the only issue is how to get rid of them and select new people.
*mike* Any idea when Skywire will be released and ready to test on hardware nodes (testnet or mainnet)?
*mgaruccio* So if there is no block reward what is the incentive to run a node?
*vega* What will be the actual function of Skycoin (the coin itself)? Will the coin be used as currency, as transfer of value in and between all these various developing functionalities, semi-separate projects to tie them all together or it's function will be more limited?
*michaelthecryptoguy* Do you have an idea on the specs of a node that would be required? In the beginning? What about with 10,000 users? (edited)
nxt i think is doing ok..
There were three people that each owned 30% of the coin. One decided he wanted out and began dumping. NXT was over 150 million I think. When he started dumping, it basicly killed NXT.
Skycoin's distribution was designed to stop dumping by the founders and early people.
After Skycoin gets to 30% of the total coins distributed, there will probably a hard time lock on the remaining coins, so that a maximum of 5% of the remaining coins can be released per year. So the distribution for the other 70% of the coins will take a minimum of 14 years (and could be longer).
We cannot even sell the rest of the coins, because if we sold 10% of the total now at $5 per coin, it would be 50 million or something and we cannot spend or even use that amount of money. Not at this stage.
Ethereum spent 30 million or 70 million in their first year or two after the ICO and then nearly went bankrupt. Silicon Valley wages and offices etc. We have been very conservative and have kept costs down and kept them responsible. Now we have coins like EOS and they want to raise a billion dollars and have not produced anything yet, do not hav a blockchain and I have no idea what they would spend that money on, but they are throwing $350,000 parties in time square for marketing/PR etc…
*arc-over-water* what prevents you from selling? anybody can spend that amount of money?
nxt is a newer platform than sky, market value is $220 million plus $166 million, I get what you are saying but the evidence is wrong. Community is huge and active in Nxt. But you say it is killed, i dont get it?
What will be the actual function of Skycoin (the coin itself)? Will the coin be used as currency, as transfer of value in and between all these various developing functionalities, semi-separate projects to tie them all together or it's function will be more limited?
Yes. Bitcoin has no purpose. An altcoin does two things
check your balance
send money to other people
Two features
check balance
For a coin to have value, people need to be forced to buy it to consume specific services. There has to be stuff for people to spend the coin on, that there is demand for.
So Bitcoin is really just a purely speculative asset. It generates no cashflow and its value is determined by perception or social convention.
Ideally, Skycoin would start off as a "better Bitcoin" (faster, more secure, new algorithm, simplier, etc), then over time we would build up an ecosystem and have some type of backing and tie the coin's value into the network and usebase.
The mesh netork (skywire) is good, because it gives something for people to do to get coins and it allows people to consume the coins. You can run your internet traffic through a VPN that tunnels over Skywire and maybe it will be a nominal amount (actually absurdly small amount of money), but there would be real economic activity and a real userbase and community using the coin. Not just speculation.
Later on the scope is much wider.
*arc-over-water* So the skycoin wallet will be a VPN for our internet usage?
nxt is a newer platform than sky, market value is $220 million plus $166 million, I get what you are saying but the evidence is wrong. Community is huge and active in Nxt. But you say it is killed, i dont get it?
What I am saying, is that NXT would be a lot further along than it is now and probably around where Ethereum is, except for that mistake in the distribution and keeping it too concentrated. It set them back by years. They did not consider what the impact on the price would be, over the long term, when one of the early whales started selling off or decided he wanted out.
*arc-over-water* But they did the same again with IOTA, same lead dev.. Its over a $Billion
they released and let the market price distribute
So the skycoin wallet will be a VPN for our internet usage?
The VPN is just one application, that uses bandwidth over Skywire. There are several things in development.
This is a BBS like 4chan, that is completely distributed, with CXO. https://github.com/skycoin/bbs
It will run over Skywire also, This is like building a whole new internet from scratch. The apps that run on it are going to specialized and privacy focused, etc GitHub skycoin/bbs Contribute to bbs development by creating an account on GitHub.
*mike* So Skycoin is a Proof of Resource coin where its value is actually backed by provision of a useful service, in this case private and secure networking? Are there plans to add decentralized storage and even distributed processing to it?
*arc-over-water* so these 100 separate million coin accounts will be 100 ICOs or how is the distribution patterned? is it written into the code or up to the devs?
*rockyj* !calculate
*slackbot Custom Response* https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FGo3FkC3uSWXGHatPQyny2brMWjAIJsHFCR-Lhkl%5Fm0/edit#gid=0
So if there is no block reward what is the incentive to run a node?
running a consensus node does not cost anything. You can run it on a raspberry pi.
The important thing is that if the people doing consensus are doing a bad job, that the community can get rid of them and replace them. The other important thing, is that they can be audited and determined automatically if they are obeying the protocol.
the miners in skycoin are not very powerful and cannot do anything except slow down transactions. They are unable to spend other people's money without their private keys, so the consensus/mining nodes are almost irrelevent. It is not like Bitcoin where the miners can hold the network hostage or act selfishly (driving up the transactions fees for their own personal benefit and delaying any innovations that would improve bitcoin for everyone, etc).
So Skycoin is a Proof of Resource coin where its value is actually backed by provision of a useful service, in this case private and secure networking? Are there plans to add decentralized storage and even distributed processing to it?
We have decentralized storage, which is called CXO. But only the bandwidth is monetized by Skywire. We do not nickle and dime and try to attach a coin cost to every API call. Everything that should be free is free. So its a different philosphy.
On top of CXO we also have distributed social media applications (simmilar to Steemit)
CXO is very similar to IFPS, but simplier and designed for our internal infrastructure and with our crypto standards, instead of being a mismash.
*mike* Is it possible for Skycoin to choose the best paths and route around bad or slow nodes as damage to the network, in effect reducing their impact on consensus?
looks like you answered the question above while I was typing…
*tranzer* How many tx/s can skycoin handle? What are block times?
*thrice.pi* 300 right? ^
*arc-over-water* on your website it says you will have a NON- Turing complete lisp language?
so these 100 separate million coin accounts will be 100 ICOs or how is the distribution patterned? is it written into the code or up to the devs?
We will have a distribution page, up on the website soon. Its complicated.
Skywire, is designed to pull coins out of circuation, through a sort of tithe on network activity and it does automatic buy backs effectively. So the distribution will actually peak and then decline. But one distribution is from the locked coins, and the locked coins are freed, then circulate, then end up at the foundation (from the skywire tithe are pulled out of circulation), but still count towards the free float.
The coin holders also receive a coinhour dividend and there will be a market rate conversion between coin hours and Skycoins and coinhours are the actual currency for the Skywire network. If you do not have enough coin hours, then you sell Skycoin for CoinHour at the market rate, to purchase bandwidth; but if you have a lot of coins then you have enough coin hours for downloading movies or VPN or whatever you are doing and it is essentially free.
So there is a dual level economic structure. Both with coin buybacks to pull coins out of circulation and with a dividend or incentive to encourage users to hold the coin if they are using the network.
*arc-over-water* so there will be two currencies, holding one reserves the other
Is it possible for Skycoin to choose the best paths and route around bad or slow nodes as damage to the network
Yes. This is very important.
The person dialing a connection, chooses the path of the connection!
You can choose the lowest latency path for video games or Skype, and choose highest throughput paths for video downloads etc. Or can choose paths through specific nodes or facilities or countries, for security concerns and to minimize the number of points that the traffic could be intercepted at.
*mike* Will Skycoin still have the node subsidy plan for setting up and registering the mesh nodes like originally planned?
*dr10* When do you plan to be able to present your planned technology and services to the masses? When can they use what you try do accomplish?
on your website it says you will have a NON- Turing complete lisp language?
That is probably an error. LOL. We will have a new website soon.
There is no scripting language on the skycoin blockchain. Each transaction is constant time (for efficiency and security and to achieve the highest transaction rate and to keep the coin simple).
However, we have a language called CX in development, which is a next generation language that is beyond "smart contracts" and the toy things on ethereum. It uses immutable datastructures and is something completely new. Most of the skycoin "smart contracts" will probably be off blockchain or in personal blockchains and we do not want to shove all the data onto the main chain, because forcing everyone to download everyone one elses contracts it the world is just spamming the blockchain to death. There are better ways to do it.
Will Skycoin still have the node subsidy plan for setting up and registering the mesh nodes like originally planned?
Yes. We are going to get from 20% to 30% distributno of the coins, through network incentives for people running Skywire nodes, consensus nodes and services.
I think this is going to be massive for marketing. And it is the best way to get the coins out to the users, instead of all the coins being held by whales
*samuelvihollandia* I read how you suggest Skycoin could be used for VPN connections, is this the largest use case you see?
*arc-over-water* Maidsafe has been working on the redesign of the net for about ten years, what are you doing the same and what different?
I read how you suggest Skycoin could be used for VPN connections, is this the largest use case you see?
No. This is just something easy, that we have working. Its not the largest applicatoin at all.
80% of internet traffic right now is bitorrent and the bitorrent sites are being systematically shutdown and driven off the internet. They wont go away, but will jut go underground. What.cd (largest music tracker, with 800k people) was just shut down, bakabt (largest anime tracker) has gone closed registration, Nyantorrent etc…
User communities of millions of people will be migrating from the clearnet (the existing corporate shit-net) to the "new internet". We are going to see people migrating by the millions, whole user communities of millions of people.
*arc-over-water* Are you a corporation or foundation or charity? Registered? I am not sure i have seen anything about who you are? What is the dev team size? Background? – Maidsafe is open and clear so is IOTA and Stellar etc. Can you let us know who you and your team are? Especially you are talking about 15 year and up obligations..
*techbytes* Do we need to hold skycoin to run Skywire nodes or consensus nodes like masternodes from other coins?
Maidsafe has been working on the redesign of the net for about ten years, what are you doing the same and what different?
Maidsafe is in version 2 or 3. Maidsafe will not have a real coin until version 9. Each version takes them about two or three years. Maidsafe will not be "done" or ready for atleast 18 years at this rate.
Skycoin has been in development for ~6 years and the meshnet for 4 years and it will be finished in a few months. To the poin that people can start using it.
Skycoin is similar to maidsafe in the objective, but has a different approach and architecture and primitives. We did not try to do everything, but focused on a smaller, tractable core and got that done.
There will be multiple projects in this space, but few teams are able to plan on the time horizon necisary for building a new internet or able to design each of the components of a system this large, or figure out how to do it so that it is useful at each stage of construction of a project that may take a decade. (edited)
*mike* Can you see a way for Ark and Skycoin to build on each other in a synergistic manner? I'm all for not reinventing the wheel, especially when it looks like it will be replaced with antigravity like Skycoin.
I see Skycoin as essentially replacing TCP/IP and providing mesh network type functionality at the hardware level, Ark would run on top of it as a top level application layer.
*arc-over-water* are you up to date on Maidsafe, they are nearly out of Alpha and its more like release early next year? But that being said, Maidsafe says once it is released it is like a virus or AI type, so does Tau Chain, and also Autonomic by HunterMinerCrafter, are we heading towards AI with Maid, Sky Tau and Autonomic?
*dr10* smartbridge now! :kappa:
*mike* So Skycoin would act as a sort of global decentralized cloud server to build on top of.
To communicate, it is more like sharing encrypted files to selected recipients than it is sending messages or hosting sites on a specific server.
Are you a corporation or foundation or charity? Registered? I am not sure i have seen anything about who you are? What is the dev team size? Background?
I think there are over ~60 people who have worked on Skycoin or have made major contributions. Its really a project from the darknet.
Many of the contributors are anonymous. Some of them have security clearances and were in the military industrial complex and one of them worked at the San Diego Naval Defence Research Lab and a lot of the idea for the networking protocols came out of public sector academic researched, funded from there.
We also have a lot of very very early Bitcoin people, hardcore crypto people that predate Bitcoin and an Ethereum core developer, etc..
On the Chinese side we have an early investor in Alibaba and telecom investor. And are doing pilot with china aviation group (owns four publicly traded airline companies) and apparently now Sinopec (which is 2nd largest publicly traded corporation in world).
Then we have people who are part of israeli and US intelligence and are probably doing some sort of money laundering or phychological operations background, who just showed up for some reason. This group seems very interested in the "applications" of these coins and how to improve tranaction privacy and the specifics of the CoinJoin protocol implementation. We got a lot of advice from people experienced in forensic accounting and what they wanted to see and where they felt Bitcoin was deficient and where it leaked metadata.
Then a bunch of PHD level people doing research into distributed database consensus algorithms and another group doing programming language research.
Then a lot of people from the deep darknet, anon, frog twitter and cipher punks and bitorrent communities. (really should be listed as two seperate groups). And people from the Russian darknet community. We have like eight Ivans. (edited)
I see Skycoin as essentially replacing TCP/IP and providing mesh network type functionality at the hardware level, Ark would run on top of it as a top level application layer.
Yes. The key functionality is two things
connecting to people by public key (networking)
distributing self validating, immutble data peer to peer (transactions, blocks etc… content addressible storage)
And you can build almost anything on those two building blocks. The whole internet will eventually be rewritten on top of those primitives and it will replace many of the existing protocols.
*arc-over-water* Who is the entity that is funding this? I think you have done 2 ICOs? How much did you receive? The first was 10c and the second was @ 50c per coin, released 6 million, is that correct?
*samuelvihollandia* Are you planning to enter a different exchange market soon?
*arc-over-water* Have you personally been in Sky from the start? What members have? Who allocates the ICO money etc… I hope you understand that decentralization with investment is a two edged sword, we invest in people but we cannot know these people…. So… we question.. (edited)
*thrice.pi* with all these outside parties that helped to build skycoin and bring it where it is today who are the main core team who will help to keep all these cool features running. Will these outside parties be recruited for the long haul?
Who is the entity that is funding this? I think you have done 2 ICOs? How much did you receive? The first was 10c and the second was @ 50c per coin, released 6 million, is that correct?
The people who funded the project for the first four years, were early bitcoin and deep crypto people; who were unhappy with the fact that Bitcoin and the other alts did not seem concerned about the core issues at all. They gave us over 1200 bitcoin I think, over several years and did not ask for anything in return.
The early Skycoin devs were doing academic research, architecture and new algorithms. Prototyping and simulation. The later stage people were more project managers and doing implementation.
We did four ICOs for small amounts, to fund development and to allow developers working on the project to buy in. The first ICO I remember was at $0.10 per coin and the price now is about $4.00 per coin, so its up ~35x or 40x, but when you consider the Bitcoin price going from $100 to $3000, the increase has not been so much. lol (edited)
*arc-over-water* With the price up 35x in about 1 year, is it not now time to cool the run up and release another ICO? At what amount of coins released and what procedure?
*mike* Would Intel Edison or Joule, or Samsung Artik 10 work well as a Skywire wireless node? They have 2 Gb-8 Gb RAM, 8-64 Gg eMMC storage, 802.11n wireless, bluetooth, and some with Zigbee?
Have you personally been in Sky from the start? What members have? Who allocates the ICO money etc… I hope you understand that decentralization with investment is a two edged sword, we invest in people but we cannot know these people…. So… we question.
I think there wer three different groups that merged together in first three years, that had similar objectives. Because the code was in different language. There was python, C code and then eventually golang and the golang code became the basis for the current codebase.
The way the coin allocations work, is that it requires unamimious consent for releasing coins and it has to be for a specific, ear marked purpose and can be blocked by any of the devs.
Then there is a pool of coins in bitcoin for various project managers to allocate. And that is an operational fund for paying developers, contractors, marketing etc. Then different people have different responsibilities.
Then we also have corporate funding and sponsorship and some companies paying our full time devs etc, which helps a lot.
*arc-over-water* Silicon Valley (TV SHOW) recently had their decentralized web running on a network or refrigerators? So i would guess, smart phones, smart gadgets? Home gadgets etc could add services and receive rewards from Sky?
*mike* best would be a totally open source and publicly audited manufactured system on a chip for the nodes to prevent any backdoors. Even chip designers now don't really know what they're putting into the chips since they just drag and drop black boxes known as IP cores into the ASIC designs.
With the price up 35x in about 1 year, is it not now time to cool the run up and release another ICO? At what amount of coins released and what procedure?
I think the Skycoin price has been doubling every 40 days, for as long as I can remember. However, it will still be years before it is in the top 20, its still a long way to climb. It took bitcoin years to go from 0 to $1, even though it was growing at 1% per day the whole time for six years.
best would be a totally open source and publicly audited manufactured system on a chip for the nodes to prevent any backdoors.
we are going to use arm
*arc-over-water* IOTA is also working on their own hardware for nodes etc, Trinary asset is JINN
*synth* all intel and AMD systems have remote management engine backdoors. So they are not safe for storing large amounts of coins.
We also have alpine linux and special version of linux, that is 6 MB and has everything that is needed for running our toolchain. It will not have any binary blobs in the kernel or anything that we cant compile from source. It does not have systemd and does not have gli, but uses musl. And does not have openssl.
*mike* so looks like the Samsung Artik 5 and 10 can run it no problem, they're ARM based. 25x35x4mm package for the Artik 10, Artik 5 is smaller, less powerful but has 2 separate antenna ports, nice for mesh networking with an omni and a directional antenna.
*earlyarkinvestor* how does Ark compare to Lisk?
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*earlyarkinvestor* isn't Lisk trying to achieve interoperability between blockchains as well
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*mike* nice! looks like an ARM based server rack
let me know if you need any help with it, see you're on solidworks, which I run as well.
*synth* this is the skycoin cluster; it has 8 CPU boards; 4 cores per CPU, 2 GB of ram per CPU and 64 bit ARM processor. Only one program will run on each individual board, so there is compartmentalization and a physical gap so that compromising one process on a system does no allow all other processes on the system to be compromised
*mike* looks like 2 ethernet ports per board.
*synth* and the hardware does not have the qualcom backdoors and is actually chinese equipment; and the backdoors are normally at the kernel level because they are not at hardware backdoors yet
*mike* do they have SATA ports, maybe M.2 for storage?
*synth* and we will hav an ARM openwrt router eventually too
this model does not have SATA, but we have a model with SATA; you could hook up 16 2 TB drives, lol and download half the piratebay to your cluster (edited)
the skycoin infrastructure is cluster based and designed for running across +300 computers, with one "node" deployed per computer. Eithe a CXO storage node, or a skywire SDN/meshnet node, or a VPN end point node or a consensus network, or skycoin node, etc. We have multiple node/application types.
so this is a "personal cloud' by itself
its not like StoreJ where you have other people storing your stuff; you are going to have ~5 clusters and 300 computers and can store your own files, on your own internet, on your own hardware. You do not need to go outside of your own network.
*mike* Have thought it'd be nice to have a board with an array of M.2 sockets to run SSD arrays without all the cables, have the busses shielded in circuit board.
*synth* yes, i think there will be m.2 eventually
these actually use a microSSD for storage, and its 48MB/s
*mike* any idea on the pricing on your ARM boards in quantity? We are looking at Intel for Bitseed V3, but ARM would be good to stay with, especially using your boards if there is SATA.
*arc-over-water* Do you have a general idea of usable functions to be released next in what order? The first release was the Coin and wallet, then the ICOs and can you give a general future with dates if you can
*synth* the boards are $30 each and the memory for solid state, is actually more than the the cost of the CPU/RAM/board now. Which is sort of insane.
*mike* so you have microSSD, what's maximum size? we shipping 1with Tb hard drives right now
*synth* Bitseed mike is going to help with this; so we can pool the boards and do a custom PCB
*mike* yes, that's where we see the price jumps, is in RAM and eMMC costs.
and it's hard to find low cost boards with SATA
*synth* try the orange pi
the price goes up 30% for SATA
*mike* yes, very nice specs.
*synth* eventually, we will make one that has custom PCB and is a pluggable blade server, I think.
*mike* I like the Samsung Artiks for the tiny form factor for drone routers, cubesat/picosat possibilities.
but like the fact that you are controlling much deeper down the supply chain with your boards.
*synth* we only need ram, CPU, then microSD slot; and that is it. so the wifi and all this other stuff is just crap and its junk. We only have communication, storage and computation. So should be minimialist.
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*mike* yes, we use very few of the ports on the pcduino nano, no need for video, audio, IR
*synth* there is even open source FPGA toolchain and a one instruction computer with subtract and jump if not zero; and if you have ram and a byte array, could even compile down to that; which is trolling, but for signing transactions or something, you could operate at that level.
*mike* do you have a link for the FPGA. My favorite has been the ZYNQ 7000 series, but this sounds a lot lower cost.
*synth* I have to ask about the FPGA
*mike* Blue Canyon uses ZYNQ 7000 for their Cubesat bus.
*synth* it is education company in shanghai
*thrice.pi* i dont want to disrupt this communication u and mike have going on cuz its good to see you two discussing these things so please do continue..but i just a simple question that mike actually asked earlier which i didnt see a reply to..he asked what type of spes is needed to run a node for skycoin
*synth* how much is it for cube sats for launch? 200 for 3 million?
*mike* it has dual core ARM with an attached FPGA and both analog and GIO, PWM
he asked what type of spes is needed to run a node for skycoin
We are trying to keep to level where 2 Ghz arm board with 1 GB of ram can run it. ideally
*mike* 50K per 1U satellite was the going rate, but that is coming down a lot.
*synth* skycoin is very minimalist; it much lower on resource usage than either bitcoin or ethereum; the bandwidth usage is less than 10 Kb/s
*10 KB/s
*thrice.pi* thank u..yes it doesn't sound like much at all..thank you for your reply @synth
maybe i missed this answer but when is the next ico taking place
*mike* so current Bitseed V2 can run it no problem. is dual core Arm with 1 Gb RAM, 1G ethernet and SATA, 4 Gb eMMC on board.
*synth* the next ICO is just marketing event, but is july 20th I think
and it is just run up before largest exchange listings and marketing and PR push etc
oh, the dual core arm can run bitcoin and ethereum; that is amazing; ethereum should be CPU hog
*thrice.pi* how long is it on for ?
*michaelthecryptoguy* also techbytes had a good question »»>Do we need to hold skycoin to run Skywire nodes or consensus nodes like masternodes from other coins?
Do we need to hold skycoin to run Skywire nodes or consensus nodes like masternodes from other coins?
No. We want to have some kind of freemum thing. If you are not paying coins, the nodes will allocate 20% of bandwidth for the free tier
But you wont have congestion if you are paying, so much better service and speed, but we dont want people not being able to access a service or the network if they have no coins in the wallet
but we need to cap the resource usage of the freemium tier, so that it does not get out of control or clog the network
*michaelthecryptoguy* :excellent:
*thrice.pi* @synth the ico in july for marketing purposes that u mentioned …is that pertaining to what mike asked about when he asked "Will Skycoin still have the node subsidy plan for setting up and registering the mesh nodes like originally planned?" (edited)
*synth* it is easier to get people on network, without having to do anything; then they wil figure out the rest later and how to optimize it and setup a 32 node cluster and load coins in and learn linux and use a CLI and becoming a mining baron with a 10 Gbps uplink and physical cables to their neighbors and wifi nodes on their roof etc, lol
*thrice.pi* lol
mike* so looks like you're using the Orange Pi PC, one of the connector ports is the USB, the other ethernet. https://www.orangepi.org/orangepipc/ . These are nice cards. orangepi.org orange pi pc – *Orangepi
*synth* eventually, if you have 40 Ghz and directional antennas, satilites or drones make sense for long haul or relaying traffic between cities. I think if we can get this working, the "miners" and hardware innovation will be insane.
We have guy who did PHD thesis on printing phased array and fractal antennas with organic semiconductor ink and he already wants to start companies to do antennas for skycoin "mining" hardware; but the software still needs a lot of work before they can start this insanity.
*mike* yes, that's what we were waiting for with Bitseed, been doing BTC fullnodes in mean time.
*thrice.pi* it seems skycoin is one hell of a coin..but it may be difficult to use for the everyday user to wrap their mind around..you think there is potential for something like ark to be used as a gateway to skycoin..so the everyday user can use something easy like arks network to link to something so broad, complex and revolutionary like skycoin ? @synth (edited)
*synth* i will give you the solid works files, so you can start manufacturing these in bulk; we do not have factory and even assembling 30 units at a time is difficult for us
*thrice.pi* sorry if this has been addressed..i may of blinked and missed it with all these great questions (edited)
*mike* the antennas can be printed with graphene ink, have over 200 dB gain on a cubesat compatible form factor if done right.
*michaelthecryptoguy* This would really help :dancing: people in third world countries turn into a :sun: (self :this:owned) Financial Services and Communications Company :bananadance::goodjob: :hadouken: /Now we just need to find a way to get them a smartphone/ :partysaurus::tophat: (edited)
*mike* would very much like to do that, maybe come up with packaging which takes a lot less time to assemble, lower cost. though makerbeam is cool…
that's been intent, have stationary nodes with storage, and open source modular mobile with mesh networking, which can achieve global penetration with secure, encrypted networking.
*synth* yes, stationary, moving nodes creates a lot of problems
skywire only works because its it designed to run over point-to-point segments and not for "mobile adhoc networking" where people are moving around
*arc-over-water* Do you have a basic program product release? Is it correct at them moment it is just the wallet?
*mike* so the routing tables don't update that often?
*synth* github.com/skycoin has a lot of different applications
github.com/skycoin/bbs works right now
the routing tables only change on new connection; so you make ~10 connections to a pubkey and if some drop you create new ones. so there is redundancy in the path and transit method. "diversity routing"
where as the direct connections between nodes are supposed to change less frequency, such as not more often than 10 seconds. Ideally never changing. any change to underlying physical connectivity, causes update cascade and is a change to network topology (should be minimized).
Where as connection dropping or routes being or connection established, does not change network topology and has no administrative overhead in bandwidth.
short range, mobile ad hoc routing needs to be handled by another protocol like BATMAN, while fixed infrastructure like WIFI hotspots, fiber between cities, ethernet cables etc is handled by the skywire stuff; so if you enter a coffee shop and connect and are there for 30 minutes, then you are fine; but if you are driving down the street connecting to different hotspot every 5 seconds, its not designed for that and needs another protocol layer for "mobile"
*mike* so nodes can move if the transmission is not interrupted, like a beam forming antenna could do it as long as the beams can be moved fast enough to not interrupt the communication.
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*mike* so nodes can move if the transmission is not interrupted, like a beam forming antenna could do it as long as the beams can be moved fast enough to not interrupt the communication.
see update, they are ok even if some interruption.
makes sense though, works fine for having like mini cell tower and access points, hand held mobile is another protocol if moving from cell to cell.
*synth* yes, phased array would be fine; or signal interrupted for second or even if signal goes out every hour for and hour and comes back on
but fundamental changes to network topology are more annoying, because everyone involved in routing across the whole network has to get notified; so you actually have to do the updates peer to peer, over CXO; and eventually network has to be segmented so that each node belongs to one or more routing/subscription domains that are partitioned in a sane way
in the current internet the number of hops between two people can be ~40 or 80 or just some insane number; in skycoin it will be 4 or a max of 7. etc, from house to neighborhood, to city, to city/country and then to destination. It wont appear as 40 physical hops, that can each have their own independent congestion
the advantage of phased array, is that you just throw it on your roof and it can scan for whoever it can connect it; and then can connect to different people or best person, without having to climb up on roof and ajust anything; the beam focus is on software control
i like the BBS and VPN, because we do not need to build a physical new internet to run them; we can just tunnel over the existing internet and its useful. It will take years before we see a hardware alternative to the existing internet. Even people are installing 100,000 nodes a month and its growing at 1% per day, it would still take 10 or 15 years until it could replace the existing internet.
There is just so much equipment installed and even if growth rate is massive, it will take forever.
*mike* yes, this is what i like about it, much easier for automated set-up than pointing antennas, even with motorized directional. had thought of using low frequency for nodes to transmit gps coordinates to locate each other, then point highest possible frequency for range to connect at each other.
*synth* the VPN will be big application; hardware vpn, whole house VPN; you plug it in and it VPNs your whole house and all your connections
the ISPS are allowed to sell all the data they collect now
and you can start hardware blocking the IP addresses for ad servers and tracking servers and so on; and different vpn end point for each device on the lan and be able to rotate them out automatically
what will happen, is that all the torrent sites and communities will be driven underground; and when that happens, the downloads will eventually be blocked or slowed by ISPS and you will need a "new internet" to really get a lot of the content that is available to people now.
Five years ago, there was no point in doing this. Today the motivations are emerging, that will drive people to something new
and another thing is that reddit has been overrun with bots; controlling all the upvotes and content now. And corporations have completely taken over and subverted facebook and twitter.
People are going to be looking for decentralized platforms and there will be a mass movement to the platforms that can solve the bot manipulation problem, the shilling problem and the company owned by corporate money whore sellout problem.
so there were attempts at a building decentralized twitters and facebooks, but five years ago there was not a need; now people are ready to siwtch and the technology is ready.
the skycoin project is building the base layer, then the communities are building their own projects. We are just giving them the tools.
*mike* Yes, like as an example, twitter made my sign-up email public, had no idea, was getting spammed all the sudden, finally found out why when I went to twitter to stop getting multiple copies of a privacy notice.
Would very much like to bridge skycoin with Ark, so Ark runs on top of this VPN, and advantage is that your VPN is trustless, or at least much more decentralized than relying on a single VPN provider, which is 100% reliant on trust.
*xano* How do you feel the incredible potential for illegal activities will affect the future of Skycoin and mass adoption?
*charles* I also don't quite understand how skycoin solves the bots on reddit
*xano* Almost everyone loves free movies, series and music, but what if ISIS starts using it for example
*synth* now, on twitter; for instance hillary clinton campaign paid twitter money for "brand management" and if 300 people you follow said something negative about her, you wont see any of the tweets. And 1 person in 4000 says something positive and everyone in the that persons followers, will see the tweet in the feed!
The companies are controlling what people see and what information is allowed into their feeds. Its not organic anymore. Its not based upon your preferences. It is based upon making the platform friendly to advertisers, who can pull their money out. They are pushing social agendas even and requiring the companies they are giving money to, to censor particular people and movements, to keep the advertising money.
Even Google is being forced to comply with these demands. Fortune 500 pulled out 700 million/year in ad revenue and then google agreed to censor search results to please the advertisers. And then they are threatening them with fines in the EU unless they comply and serve the governments and corporations.
Decentralized social media, means that you own your own data. It means that you control on your computer, the algorithm used to sort and prioritize your feed. Instead of allowing it to be controlled and manipulated by a third party, who is a whore for money trying avoid being fined by the EU and groveling before soap companies threatening to pull their ad money out, unless they censor things.
yes, ARK could use skycoin network for block and transaction distribution. And could use it for networking, to avoid blocking.
And ARK could be deployed as a node in the same framework as skycoin. in the skycoin clusters.
There is github.com/skycoin/viscript and we can add ARK here. This is a cross platform CLI, and application launcher and for cluster management eventually.
*mike* thanks! will post to our devs. we have and are adding a lot of API's and CLIs for different languages.
I also don't quite understand how skycoin solves the bots on reddit
It is outside of skycoin project, but the people building the BBS has a really cool filtering algorithm. Everyone is identified by their public key and can build out a web of trust. And its like page rank for users.
Its a decentralized type of moderation, that is automatic.
is ARK in golang?
*jarunik* Ark chain is in Javascript but we got a golang api.
*arc-over-water* Why golang over rust or scala?
*mike* Ark core is written in node.js , may be ported to go. There is a go api/cli being written, by @chris I believe.
*arc-over-water* when will there be a lisp coin platform :slightly_smiling_face:
*mike* golang is done? nice!
*boldninja* https://github.com/ArkEcosystem/ark-go GitHub ArkEcosystem/ark-go ark-go – Ark GO client for ARK.io blockchain ecosystem #golang #ark #blockchain
*mike* lisp – that would be fun! Continue to be amazed lisp is still around, but popular for machine learning apps. yes, we need lisp added, can you do it arc-over-water?
lisp seems to have good function for parallel processing but don't know details myself.
*arc-over-water* now there is Shen.. https://shenlanguage.org/
How do you feel the incredible potential for illegal activities will affect the future of Skycoin and mass adoption?
The people selling drugs will love skycoin. Bitcoin was worthless until people could buy drugs with it, then it was money and it went from $0.01 to $1000 in a year.
When the internet was created, the first thing people were doing was downloading porn. When bitcoin was created the first thing people were doing was buying drugs and guns.
ISIS does not need skycoin, because they are using xbox messanger and facebook messanger. They do not need crypto. Every terrorist attack means budget increases, so the government loves ISIS. Terrorism is big money and the more terror, the more money there is to make. People are making too much money off of ISIS for them to get rid of the problem any time soon.
Pedophiles were also the first ones to adapt stenography, i2p, tor, tails and bitmessage. They are always the first ones testing out any new crypto stuff. You should look at the logos of the stenography apps and you can guess what kind of people wrote these applications.
Even two years, before skycoin was launched the intelligence and money laundering people were already showing up and giving lists of requirements for scrubbing or hiding metadata.
If I was building the next silk road I would be looking at tech like skycoin is building. I think everyone has had that idea.
We really cannot control what people are going to do with this. Its just inevitable progress and its going to happen whether we do it, or maidsafe does it or someone does it. Its going to happen. (edited)
*mike* looks interesting. have you seen julia, https://julialang.org/ . very impressed with its benchmarks, comparable to go
think the best way to end terrorism is to end foreign interventionism. Last I knew, Switzerland doesn't have a problem with terrorists.
*arc-over-water* killary and obomba
*michaelthecryptoguy* Sad but true.
*mike* and the bushes
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*arc-over-water* fake news on an amazing level… sandy hook.. 911
moon landing… Stephen Hawking…
*charles* North Korea also does not have a problem with terrorism 🙂
*arc-over-water* Sky! the limit
*mike* don't even have to go to that level, just the current ongoing farce about Russian intervention in the election and supposed ties to Trump team members. War is the health of the corporate state.
*synth* terrorist attacks are now advertising events for nike; they are fighting each other for who gets the product placement in the latest ISIS attack. It keeps people glued to their televisions and otherwise people would not watch the news. Even terrorist attack keeps people on the television and the fortune 500 fight each other, to get the ad spots for the people glued their television.
The governments and companies race in, like sharks with the latest "surveilence" bill to get the governments to buy billions of dollars of useless equipment from them. The government agencies all rush in to influence the press and get budget increases passed.
Its just insanity. They only care about money.
*mike* it would be very inconvenient to improve relations with Russia for those making money and expanding power over escalating global tensions.
*arc-over-water* wasnt the first main scandal trump attack that he weed on some prostitutes in Russia. OMG
*synth* they have oil companies and russia produces oil; so hey want any execuse for "sanctions" to force people to buy their oil instead of russian oil. They would do a war, just to stop any Russian oil pipeline to Europe.
It just about money.
*arc-over-water* Putin is actually kicking some ass with his speeches the last years.
*synth* if russia gave me free prostitutes, I would pee on them too, lol. Why not? (edited)
*mike* don't forget Pussygate – the press sat on the tape for 10 years until 3 weeks before the election, instead of during the primaries.
*arc-over-water* crazy shit out there…
time for crypto to shine..
*xano* I just wonder how services like mega would have ended up with Skycoin
*synth* the "Y2K" was also excuse, to sell tens of billions of dollars of "upgrades" to government and corporations. They told them "give us your money or the sky will fall".
terrorism is the same story, its just turned into a money making scam. 90% of the surveilence crap is just companies finding excuses to lobby the government to buy over priced equipment, so they can make money. They do no even know what to do with the data they collect. They are doing insider trading and rigging markets and all sorts of crap with the data and then panicing when people start using HTTPS because its harder for them to keep making money the same way.
*arc-over-water* Mega2 is about to show its prototypes
*synth* you have mom and pop local police departments, buying $150,000 string ray cell phone interception equipment that is NSA level, who could not even afford it, but its paid for out of 10 billion dollar DHS "terror" fund to buy useless equipment for local police. To "fight terrorism". Its really a joke.
*arc-over-water* Sky list of aims over the next two years?
Next ICO cost and how it will be released?
*synth* people know that companies like apple and goolge are required to hand over all their data to the government. including messages, so why would anyone use imessanger or icloud?
So they are staging fake events with "police cant break the 4 digit pin on an iPhone and its unbreakable" when they can actually trojan the phone from the carrier, etc and have all sorts of insane mandatory backdoors.
So we are heading towards a decentralized internet and these new apps, as people get sick of being tracked like animals.
*michaelthecryptoguy* @synth What is your background? Can you tell me a little about your prior experience, regardless of what area it was in? (edited)
Sky list of aims over the next two years?
Get meshnet working Get BBS and first demo apps working Get VPN working and get it to users List on more exchanges Build up community Improve the wallet, fix website, translations into more languages ec
*arc-over-water* Also the two Chinese guys who wrote the technical whitepaper, the scholars, are part of the team?
@synth What is your background? Can you tell me a little about your prior experience, regardless of what area it was in?
I did a lot of things. video games, hedge fund/finance, crypto, investment stuff etc… Now am I a sort of project manager.
*charles* How will the price of skycoins be determined for the next ICO, I, suppose it cannot be above market price, else people would not buy it, but too far below would depreciate the coin
*arc-over-water* do they want high price at this point or well even distribution to the best placement of people?
Also the two Chinese guys who wrote the technical whitepaper, the scholars, are part of the team?
One of the chinese guys has nothing to do with it. He is a professor that put his name on paper his graduate student published. And now the professor wants to hide the paper, because he thinks the chinese government is cracking down on bitcoin; but he is wrong and the government doesnt care and the paper is in english so they cant read it anyways.
And the other one is a core ETH developer. Chen was core ETH and wrote the golang implementation of Ethereum. He is not very public and does not want to be in spotlite or bothered.
most of the contributors for skycoin are in the background or hiding actually (edited)
many of the ETH people are all whoring themselves out to advisor boards to various tokens, or dozens of tokens and ICOs; but most of the serious crypto people are very private and hiding themselves. They do not want to be known, do not want to promote or advertise themselves and they are in the background.
Or they have too much money already and just want to hide. They are also lazy because they do not have to work anymore, or they are busy with other things.
they also want to avoid taxes and being targetted for theft and do not want attention from government
skycoin cannot have a "Team" or "Advisor Board" on website, because we asked everyone and no one wants to be public or wants to be in a public position….
*arc-over-water* yes best to live in a country your not citizen of and earn money from a country your not living in… Been doing it for ten ears, way less stress, (edited)
*synth* many early bitcoin people, who identified themselves publicly on twitter; they cannot travel to brazil or certain countries without risking being kinapped and ransomed for money
*arc-over-water* vitalic knows kung fu maybe,,, well he speaks Chinese..
*charles* Do you think skycoin not having a public figure will negatively affect adoption?
*arc-over-water* i think it has.. 6 years on and quiet forums and slack
*synth* we can buy public figures or an adviser board; but they would not have anything to do with project except to put their name on it to create confidence for public; which is what all these advisor boards really are
*arc-over-water* in the background assuming tek development.
Next ICO cost and how it will be released?
github is always active…
*synth* i really do not know
about the next ICO
*arc-over-water* ok
*synth* it is around the 20th of next month. and will be 1% to 10% of the skycoin. I am not sure the exact number is set
and it will probably be a fixed price
*dr10* this ama is a marathon :trollbounce: nice!
*arc-over-water* how much of the 100 million is obligated to your team and the people who funded it?
*synth* but then followed by a weekly auction or second priced auction for a fixed number of coins, that will occur every week for 8 weeks; but not sure how many coins or if it will actually happen
*arc-over-water* so if its a high price it is 1% and low price it could get to 10%
how much of the 100 million is obligated to your team and the people who funded it?
The people who funded skycoin, did not receive anything for it. They have no entitlement to the coins.
they had to buy in at ICO like everyone else. Even the developers working on it, had to buy in.
*arc-over-water* ok so they have already been looked after in the 10c ICO round
*synth* i think the next ICO is mostly marketing event, and to "get it over" with. We are in a bubble now, so we should raise money now, before the ICO bubble pops. Is what people are telling us.
we cannot spend more then 50 million, so selling an insane number makes no sense. 10 to 15 million is probably reasonable, for next 3 years. And that is with a really good full time marketing team, and trippling number of developers AND funding several parrallel hardware projects.
*mike* My approach to Skycoin is regardless how much of a financial return it might provide, it is an investment into producing a future I want to see.
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Also look forward to earning it by running nodes.
*arc-over-water* So that could be you release 10,000,000 coins and get $10,000,000 dollars for your covering expenses next three years
*charles* Can a person with limited technical capabilities run a node?
*arc-over-water* or $20,000,000 as it goes
*synth* the people who are going to pump the coin, want us to sell off as much as possible. They are pressuring us to do that.
However, if we sell fewer coins, then the price per coin will be higher.
If we only sell 10 million in coins, then the price can go up a lot higher than if we sold 500 million in coins.
I think EOS is going to raise a billion dollars and I have no idea what they will with the money, except use it to buy EOS and drive the price up or some scam. They are not going to spend it on development. lol
Can a person with limited technical capabilities run a node?
eventually, yes. maybe not right now. after tutorials, yes
*arc-over-water* EOS seems like it is trying to go bear bones and not be as complicated as ETH…
*mike* I think it is smart to hold a lot for distribution to node operators as a replacement to mining for a good distribution, also selling some to have distribution among those who are interested but not technically inclined to run nodes.
So that could be you release 10,000,000 coins and get $10,000,000 dollars for your covering expenses next three years
The coin price is like $4 or almost $5 at high. It will be at $5 by ICO I think, atleast. The market cap has doubled every 40 days, for a while now.
10 million coins at $5 per coin, is 50 million.
We have to distribute coins via the skywire nodes, to make it fair; because ICO is not a good way to get coins into the hands of users. Its only good for fund raising and for whales.
We decided that we will distribute most of the coins to users and just use sales to whales, to fund development.
*arc-over-water* there must be ways to spread to diverse groups the 10,000,000 coins?
*synth* the problem is that all ICOs end up going to less than 20 whales
*arc-over-water* every member of a altcoin slack gets a coupon invite
If an ICO knows their customer that can be prevented..
*synth* there are people who own a large percentage of ETH and they want to diversify; they can gamble 20 million in an ICO and could make 50x more, but if they lose it, then its a slight loss; they have so much ETH that they cannot even sell it or convert it, without tanking the market
*arc-over-water* in one day every altcoin slack member of every altcoin could get a btc address used once in their pm, allowed a max amount sent etc..
*synth* yes, ideally, that might work
we have been doing OTC sales at market price; with a cap of 10 BTC and that works well
*arc-over-water* do the OTC reflect in the blockchain? (edited)
*synth* but we have single whales that want to put in 700 BTC and each one individually, is larger than whole individuals doing the OTC sales
OTC is "over the counter", or direct sale; when people private message a developer and ask to buy
*arc-over-water* ok so private sales are happening
*mike* uploaded and commented on this image: TEC chart.png 1 Comment Here is a sample method based on power law for pricing I have planned for Ark based Token Exchanges for projects, including funding Ark/Skycoin based nodes. As more as sold, the price increses by a power law so people can enter at the irsk and expected ROI combination they feel comfortable without being pressured into hasty emotional decisions by FOMO.
*mike* *irsk=risk
so entering on any part of the curve looks the same as any other part.
*synth* hmmm
how does this work?
the more money you put in, the more you pay?
*arc-over-water* but as you do these OTC sales it reflects here in distributed? https://explorer.skycoin.net/blocks
*mike* here is a link to the spreadsheet, has the formulas and table of calculations for the graph, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1en9lqzBIuHgp0-Q3ohoq3yJUe1lJcOK9U4bF2TiXZew/edit?usp=sharing
yes, the more that is put in, the higher the price.
it will take some experience to determine the best parameters to prevent instant sell-off while not stalling the exchange indefinitely, and different project might be best suited for different exchange rates over time period.
*synth* we have a really good strategy now
We can distribute coins to top content producers on the BBS
to people doing bountries (like skycoin logo, sticker design etc)
to people who want to do development (mobile wallet etc, some features for bbs and bug fixes)
Then massive substained distribution, over time to the people running the skywire nodes.
Then disribution also to nodes hosting content on CXO.
Then distribution to people coming on to platform who are bringing user communities with millions of people (we have been talking to these people for years and they do not have real developers, so we have to help them; they only have web designers and curators and community managers but cannot actually develop anything new).
*mike* like a long term term ArkSpace project for space exploration and development will be sold over a lot longer time frame than funding an index coin bridged to Ark.
yes, and either way, the project can award blocks of tokens to contributors other than just for money.
I'm a fan of the Slicing Pie method.
*arc-over-water* Ok so your saying it will be between 1%-10% next month to get funding and start the marketing campaign. Then after that distribution then there are monthly small releases of ICO and the majority being bounties for services rendered. and nodes etc
*mike* https://slicingpie.com/ Slicing Pie Perfect Equity Splits for Bootstrapped Startups Slicing Pie is a formula that allows founders to create a PERFECTLY FAIR equity split between founders, investors, partners and employees. (92kB)
Skycoin is very similar, but doing it manually with adjustment.
*synth* yes
what i am interested in, is if we can block the BBS up and get alot of users with the incentives
every dollar in coins we sold over OTC, drove the skycoin market cap up $4
we would sell coins, then price explodes the next week; because people promote it on twitter and blog about it
skycoin needs to get on more exchanges
*synth* I have to sleep now. LMAO. We should end AMA soon
*arc-over-water* cool thanks for your time… haha 3.17 am here
*synth* 4 hours?
*dr10* XD
*synth* is there an archive for the AMA?
*dr10* reddit hopefully :joy:
*michaelthecryptoguy* Thank You for taking your time to answer everything in complete detail. It was nice that you cared enough to make sure everything was answer very thoroughly.
*boldninja* @michaelthecryptoguy can you copy everything and make it reddit friendly?
thanks @synth for taking the time for this AMA it was :mindblown: really interesting stuff
*techbytes* marathon session today.
*michaelthecryptoguy* I sure can. As long as jarunik hasn't already started. (edited)
*mike* Thank you very much for joining us synth, please stop by again.
I will also be continuing to check in on skycoin slack for updates as well,
The closer the integration of Skycoin with Ark, the better.


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…prefer Neville Brody's newly renamed Research Studios: Brody Associates. Apparently clients just didn't get what they were trying to do under the old moniker. "Five or 10 years ago most of our work came from clients that wanted a one-stop shop for everything," Brody said. "But clients tend now to shop around for the different parts of their own output. We found clients weren't quite clear on what we were offering, because we were offering everything." (Pictured above: One of two typefaces Brody Associates produced for Nike for the England Squad's World Cup shirts.)
…bid every New York City restaurant to hire ambitious graphic designer and hand letterer Lauren Hom, who Will Letter for Lunch—literally. Give her some chalk and a blackboard and she'll write up your menu way lovelier than you can. All she asks in return is a meal on the house.
…get graphically informed by David Byrne, Nate Silver, and the other contributors to The Best American Infographics 2014 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), which proves that for information design, like poetry, "more isn't always better."
…watch the excellent new batch of AIGA Medalist videos again and again as we begin to roll them out each week. First up, Cheryl Heller. Check the AIGA homepage (or Twitter or Facebook) for updates.
…meet the first female typographer, Anna Rügerin, who defied Medieval notions of what passed for "women's work" and took over her husband's print shop after his death in the late 1400s.
…celebrate the clean and deceptively simple redesign of Christie's magazine, especially because it's the first effort from former Esquire creative director David McKendrick and former Wallpaper* art director Lee Belcher, who quit their day jobs to form B.A.M. Here's to many more, fellas!
…applaud Hyperallergic for finding a fun and 100% original way to cover the Jeff Koons exhibition at The New Museum: taking pictures of security guards looking super bored next to some of his most graphic (and over-Instagrammed) artworks.
…dream up ways to DIY this new Sputnik-5 planter/coffee table by Russian design studio Plan-S23. No word on how much this oak and marble beauty costs, but you can bet the shipping from St. Petersburg alone is crazy.
…try to get to bed a little bit earlier each night after watching this recent TedMed Talk, in which neuroscientist Jeff Iliff describes sleep as "an elegant design solution to some of the brain's most basic needs" (like clearing away the crazy amount of waste we apparently store up there throughout the day). So I won't be sleeping in this weekend, I'll be elegantly redesigning my brain.
Still have more catching up to do? Check out last week's (still completely relevant) Design Diary.


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Before I even start, if you are a person who is going to just rip Maria Sharapova, this blog entry is not for you. Her career does include a suspension, and that must be acknowledged, but I am here to be fair. I haven't blogged in a very long time, due to many personal crises. … Continue reading
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Australian Open 2018: What Now For Maria Sharapova?
I wasn't surprised with the ease of Angelique Kerber's victory over Maria Sharapova at the 2018 Australian Open. I am a Masha fan. A big Masha fan, in fact. Among current players, she's probably only behind Madison Keys and possibly Petra Kvitova for me. So I am not rooting against her at all. I know … Continue reading
Australian Open 2018: Too Early To Hope For Keys, Halep and Sharapova?
Okay, here's the thing. Three of my four favorite players, Madison Keys, Maria Sharapova, and Simona Halep, have all won their first two matches at the 2018 Australian Open. Two matches is far short of the seven you need to win a major. Not only that, Keys and Halep have never won a major. So … Continue reading
Australian Open 2018: Women's Singles Title Will Be Won By…Somebody?
I have no idea who's going to win the women's singles title at the Australian Open 2018. I suppose technically nobody really knows unless you somehow have a sports almanac from the future and you're busy amassing your fortune. The defending champion, Serena Williams, isn't quite ready to come back and compete. There were some … Continue reading
Maria Sharapova Wins First Match In Return From Suspension at 2017 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix
I admit that the past couple of weeks I've still been stewing over that atrocious armchair officiating call-in that sank Lexi Thompson at the 2017 ANA Inspiration. But I can't let the return from suspension of Maria Sharapova go by without posting. The 5-time Major winner and former world #1 shook off a slow start … Continue reading
Maria Sharapova Joins Other Legends Of Tennis At WTT Smash Hits Charity Event
On a night when legendary tennis players Billie Jean King, John McEnroe and Martina Navratilova were on the court, along with stars Andy Roddick and Mark Philippoussis, all eyes were on Maria Sharapova at the 2016 World Team Tennis Smash Hits Charity Event in Las Vegas. Still banned from WTA events due to her ITF … Continue reading
Maria Sharapova Suspension Reduced To 15 Months, Eligible To Return April 26th, 2017
The Court of Arbitration for Sports handed 5-time Major winner Maria Sharapova one of her biggest career victories by lowering her 2-year meldonium suspension to 15 months. Keep in mind that the ITF was said to have originally wanted to deal Masha a 4-year suspension, effectively a career death sentence in singles at her age, … Continue reading
Tennis Players Dominate Forbes 2016 List Of Top Paid Female Athletes With Serena Williams Coming In At #1
#1 SERENA WILLIAMS (Tennis), $28.9 Million After an 11-year reign as the top female money earner in sports, counting endorsements combined with prizemoney, the provisionally suspended Maria Sharapova fell to #2 as 21-time singles Major winner Serena Williams tops the Forbes 2016 list, measuring money over the last 12 months. Considering that some of her … Continue reading
Maria Sharapova At 2016 Chicago Sweets & Snacks Expo
As a fan of Maria Sharapova, I acutely feel her absence at Roland Garros 2016. Masha is a 2-time champion in Paris. Whether she ever has a chance to compete there or anywhere again is still yet to be determined. From my point of view, I Stand With Maria (#IStandWithMaria). While she awaits her day … Continue reading
Maria Sharapova Rebuts Media Reports Concerning Her Failed Drug Test
In the wake of her announcement concerning the failure of a drug test at the 2016 Australian Open, former world #1 Maria Sharapova sought to clarify some of the reporting that has followed. In a letter posted online, Masha rebuts some of the details being forwarded in the media. Here is her open letter: To … Continue reading


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For first time ever, Grand Mufti of Sunni Muslim world's religious authority Al-Azhar is elected, with President Mohamed Morsi giving his stamp of approval Monday
Egypt's new Grand Mufti, Shawki Ibrahim Abdel-Karim has been officially approved by President Mohamed Morsi, the presidential office confirms in a press statement released on Monday.
The Senior Scholars Authority of Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world's religious authority, met to choose the new Grand Mufti to succeed Ali Gomaa, who has recently retired.
This marks the first time a vote has been held to appoint the new Mufti, whereas in the past it was appointed by the president.
Following the vote, Morsi was expected to officially approve the decision for Abdel-Karim to officially carry out his post starting from 4 March.
Abdel-Karim, 55, most recently served as the head of the Islamic Jurisprudence and Sharia Law at Al-Azhar University, Tanta branch.
The new Mufti was born in the Nile Delta governorate of Beheira and received his PhD in 1996 from the Al-Azhar University Faculty of Sharia and Law. Abdel-Karim's most famous book concerns the predetermination of the sex of a fetus and its legality according to Islamic law. He has also written a book on the political rights of Muslim women.
Al-Azhar is the main source of religious edicts for Sunni Muslims worldwide and the post of Grand Mufti was created in 1895. Abdel-Karim is the 19th to hold the post of Grand Mufti.


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Plymouth clerk retires after anti-Muslim Facebook post investigation
Plymouth City Clerk Linda Langmesser resigned from her position and retired Friday, several days after falling under investigation for an anti-Muslim post on her Facebook page.
Langmesser, who has been in the clerk's office for some 30 years and the clerk for about 20, made the decision after meeting with city officials Friday.
"(Langmesser) has resigned and retired from her position, effective immediately," City Manager Paul Sincock said late Friday. He declined further comment.
►Related: Plymouth clerk's alleged anti-Muslim post investigated, city manager says
Sincock said he has appointed Deputy Clerk Maureen Brody, who serves in Sincock's office, as interim clerk, according to procedures outlined in the city charter. She will have the full responsibility and authority of the office until a permanent clerk is appointed.
The city charter gives Sincock the responsibility for choosing the permanent replacement, which will then be considered by the Plymouth City Commission. If the commission takes no action on Sincock's recommendation, the person nominated would automatically be appointed, Sincock said.
The decision comes days after a posting on Langmesser's Facebook page appeared with anti-Muslim language. According to Sincock, Langmesser's posting was a response to a story about a Muslim woman who'd lost her job at the White House. The story, headlined "I was a Muslim in Trump's White House for 8 Days," was penned for The Atlantic by former White House staffer Rumana Ahmed, who hired into the White House during President Obama's first term.
Langmesser's post — which has since been removed — talked about how Ahmed wasn't telling the truth "because that's what they do in their culture" and that she should "be sent back to where she can worship the koran."
Attempts by the Plymouth Observer to reach Langmesser were unsuccessful. However, a local TV station reported immediately afterward she told them she did not write the post, that she respects other people's religions. She told the television station she didn't know how the post happened.


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My mum would have said, "it's neither one thing nor the other", in the way that mums do. Now, I like my winters cold and with loads of snow, and last week held the promise of real winter conditions at last, but then what happens? It gets warm again, that's what! As I said, neither one thing nor the other.
If we can't have a proper winter I'd rather have it warm, which isn't as unlikely as it might seem. In February 2008, Chris and I had a day on Cadair Idris that was as sunny and warm as mid-summer. The visitor centre at Minffordd had opened for business, but we didn't linger – February days can be warm, but they are always short.
The path from Minffordd starts by weaving up a wooded hillside with interesting stream cascades over to the right. As the path emerges from the wood, the southern flank of Penygadair suddenly comes into view. The path then curves round to enter the delightful hollow containing the small lake of Llyn Cau. From there, a steady pull up the hillside leads to the top of crags enclosing the lake below.
As the view unfolds, the Welsh names suddenly start to make sense, especially if you know a few words of the language. Cadair Idris means 'Idris's Chair', though from a distance it's more like a throne for a king. Penygadair means 'The Head of the Chair' ('c' sometimes mutates to 'g' in welsh), Llyn means lake, Cau means enclosed or shut and Craig means rock or crag, so Llyn Cau is 'Enclosed Lake', and the surrounding crags (Craig Cau) take their name from the hollow below.
We followed the steep cliffs above the lake, circling round the hollow before heading upwards to the summit of Penygadair, with great views west towards the sea near Barmouth (or Abermaw in Welsh). Then, suddenly, we were at the top. The summit has the usual triangulation column, made redundant in an age of aerial surveys, but there is also a surprise in store.
The surprise in this case is the small stone shelter at the summit. What is even more surprising is that it's clean inside, with no litter or sheep muck – a board placed across the door opening keeps the sheep at bay and a brush encourages visitors to maintain cleanliness. The hut would make an ideal bothy for anyone wishing to spend a night on the mountain.
It should be stated, though, that an overnight stay is not without risk – an old legend says that anyone spending a night in the hut will wake the next day either as a poet or a madman! We decided not to take any chances regarding the latter and after a brief stop we set off for Mynydd Moel (the 'Bald Mountain'), followed by one of the roughest descents we had followed in a long time – a small price to pay for what had been a summers day in February.
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The local writers group assigned the topic of "Day Dreams."
This piece came from that assignment.
As a little girl, with bubble wand in my hand, I twirl.
The bubbles, like my day dreams unknown to me, rise in the sky.
My only fascination lay with watching the bubbles rise and marveling how high they went before they burst.
I shared this activity with my daughters and grand-daughters. To this day, I stop and smile when I witness a child partaking in this delight.
Only later did I realize my day dreams rode on those bubbles. How many dreams did I let escape? Did they really escape, or simply hitch a ride on a star?
As an adult, the night sky and its stars captivated me. I love how the night lights sparkle and shine against the dark velvet.
I moved west and in the high, dry mountain air found the stars more numerous than previously imagined. And they appeared much closer. In fact, close enough to reach out and grab. I began to see the connection between bubbles, stars and my day dreams.
Now I envision my day dreams found protection in the stars until such time as I could gather them back to myself. In the safety of maturity and greater self-awareness, I'm learning which dreams to toss back to the stars for another time or person to claim. With fresh eyes and new appreciation, I've reclaimed some of those day dreams. As they unfold and develop, I change and grow.
Now I recognize that day dreams and dreaming keeps one alive and vibrant.
My advice to you: Hang onto your dreams!
Do you still dream?
Are you finding any of your old dreams returning to you?


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What kind of equipment do the villas have?
The villas are fully equipped with furniture, decorations, paintings, settings, serving dishes, linens, towels and anything you may need to feel at home. For more detailed information please see the page of the property, where its equipment is described in detail.
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The reservation procedures takes place entirely online and via our site. You should select the property and the days of your stay and also fill in any other details requested or anything you would like provided to you. To proceed with the booking you need to have read and confirmed the reservation terms and conditions. You should also pay directly an amount equal to 40% of the total cost as a deposit with one of the proposed ways of payment. You will then receive an official confirmation of your reservation. To complete your reservation, you will have to pay the total amount of your stay 30 days prior to the expected date of arrival, otherwise the reservation will be cancelled.
How can I cancel my reservation?
If you wish to cancel your reservation up to 15 days after the booking date, you can do so for free.
If you wish to cancel your reservation up to 60 days prior to your expected arrival, then 50% of your deposit will be refunded to you.
If you wish to cancel your reservation up to 30 days prior to your expected arrival, then the deposit is not refunded.
In case of cancellation after 30 days or in case of no-show upon check-in, then the entire amount of rent is not refundable.
What is a guarantee? When is it returned?
In order for your reservation to be valid, you should deposit 10% of the total rental amount, when paying the total amount, 30 days prior to your arrival, as a guarantee for wear or damage that may arise during your stay. This amount will be refunded, if no damages are detected to the property, 15 days after your departure. If the cost of damages is greater than the amount of guarantee, the company will require you to cover it entirely.
What are the check-in and check-out times?
Our villas are available for check-in at 14:00 on your arrival day. It is essential that you inform us of any special cases of delayed arrival e.g. airline or ship schedules, partial disease etc.
Check-out time from the property is at 11:00pm, in order to get it completely cleaned and surrender it to the next tenants. If you wish to stay longer for a few hours/ days, you need to inform us promptly and this is subject to availability and additional charge.
How do I find the villa? Are transfers included in the price?
Once it is confirmed that you have fully paid for your stay, we will send you detailed information about the property and your stay there, as well as driving directions. These instructions include the name and telephone number of the contact person that will deliver the property to you. He will contact you promptly and will arrange you to meet at the most convenient point.
Your transfer to and from the property is not included in the price. We would be glad to take care of your transfers by any means, if you promptly notify us that you wish so.
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Is smoking allowed in the villas?
Smoking is not allowed indoors. You can smoke only outdoors taking the necessary precautions not to cause a fire in a garden or the outdoor area or not to damage any furniture etc. objects. Please keep in mind that during the summer months in Greece, weather conditions favour the starting of fires in plants and forests and we should be especially careful with using any kind of fire outdoors.
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We offer a variety of services to make your holidays comfortable and unforgettable. Transfers, car, boat, helicopter rental, guide, chef, cook, baby sitter, personal trainer and anything you might be interested in, we can provide it by sending you a relevant quotation. Do not hesitate to ask us at the villa reservation form.


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The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of comic strips created by the Belgian artist Georges Rémi (1907–1983), who wrote under the pen name of Hergé. The series first appeared in French in Le Petit Vingtième, a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le XXe Siècle on 10 January 1929. The success of the series saw the serialised strips collected into a series of twenty-four albums, spun into a successful magazine and adapted for film, radio, television and theatre. The series is one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century, with translations published in more than 50 languages and more than 200 million copies of the books sold to date. Its popularity around the world has been attributed to its "universal appeal" and its ability to transcend "time, language and culture."
Set during a largely realistic 20th century, the hero of the series is Tintin, a young Belgian reporter. He is aided in his adventures from the beginning by his faithful fox terrier dog Snowy (Milou in French). Later, popular additions to the cast included the brash, cynical and grumpy Captain Haddock, the highly intelligent but hearing-impaired Professor Calculus (Professeur Tournesol) and other supporting characters such as the incompetent detectives Thomson and Thompson (Dupont et Dupond). Hergé himself features in several of the comics as a background character, as do his assistants in some instances.
The comic strip series has long been admired for its clean, expressive drawings in Hergé's signature ligne claire style. Its "engaging", well-researched plots straddle a variety of genres: swashbuckling adventures with elements of fantasy, mysteries, political thrillers, and science fiction. The stories within the Tintin series always feature slapstick humour, accompanied in later albums by satire, and political and cultural commentary.
I stumbled upon this exhibition in the Belgian Centre for Comic Strip Art in Brussels while trying to find my way back to my hotel.
The Belgian Centre for Comic Strip Art (Dutch: Belgisch Centrum voor het Beeldverhaal, French Centre belge de la Bande dessinée) chronicles the history of Belgian comics. Housed in a former department store in Brussels' business district, it exhibits examples of comic strips in French, Dutch and English.
The full range of comic art is covered, including science fiction, wild west, crime and politics, as well as children's comics such as The Smurfs.
It has several exhibits on Belgium's most famous comic characters Tintin and Snowy and their creator Hergé. The style of the Tintin comics and their history is examined, including life-size models of characters and sets from Tintin's adventures. There is a shop, research library and restaurant on the ground floor of the historic building, which was designed by the Belgian art nouveau architect Victor Horta.


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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." ~Isaac Asimov
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It's a new year, a chance to improve, conquer and be fierce. The new year brings opportunity, a chance to correct our mistakes and of course work towards finishing what we started. I'm one of the most prominent believers in women. Women are powerhouses, we sometimes forget just how valuable and influential we are in society. Unfortunately, our contributions are often suppressed or undermined- gender inequalities. With that said, I would love to applaud women in science, you ladies are doing an amazing job! In 2017 I had the opportunity to interview prominent and up and coming women in the world of STEM. This is an idea my supervisor, Dr Sarah Fawcett had placed in my brain. Sarah believed that I would do it so well and no one would do it like I would (*blush*), and the rest is history!
In 2017, the second half of my first year and the first half of the second year of Ph.D., I had an opportunity to visit the South African Prince Edward Islands (46°46'23''S, 37°51'09''E) for Ph.D. sampling (a chapter in my Ph.D.). It was a great experience with its ups and downs. We, at some point, had the opportunity to fly by helicopter to one of the islands, a very eerie island, Marion Island. It was EPIC! On that sampling expedition, I spotted a mooring that had been astray for some time and carried with it very important data. I spotted it with the naked eye from the bridge of the R/V SA Agulhas II.
In August of 2017, I also became a runner-up in the UCT leg heats of FameLab. This is a triumph I will forever be proud of. It somewhat opened doors for me. Due to this accomplishment, I was featured in the 2017 UCT Science Faculty Newsletter (ABSOLUTELY WOW!). Additionally, the South African Women In Science and Engineering (SAWISE) featured me in their October newsletter. What an honour.
For the year 2017, I finally would love to applaud my mentor, Dr Sarah Fawcett, a pioneer of greatness while being the greatness herself. She was awarded a "Prestigious P rating". Sarah's team is predominantly made up of women. We (our team) embody the women in science narrative. We do not just speak of it, it is a reality. Onwards and upwards to you all in 2018, from womeninsciencehub.wordpress.com!
On the cruise and on land, I had a chance to mingle with National Geographic photographer, Thomas Peschak who gave us two presentations of his work, on the ship. Finally, at one of the UCT Engineering events, I had the privilege to meet South Africa's Minister of Science and Technology, Minister Naledi Pandor who I am on a mission to interview for this very blog.
With this and more, 2017 was a year to remember!