As you may have heard, Poloniex has decided to delist MaidSafeCoin (MAID), perhaps because of its new relationship with Justin Sun. Obviously we are disappointed by this turn of events. The Poloniex exchange is about to lose one of the oldest and strongest communities in the crypto world. However, we are making the most of this situation by broadening the base of exchanges listing MAID, which will give more choice to the market, particularly in the US.
After the news came out, ChainRift reached out to us saying that they are fans of the project and would be happy to…
Further thinking from Nick Lambert, COO MaidSafe. A great read.
Source: Autonomous Data Networks and Why The World Needs Them
Further autonomous thinking from our own Nick Lambert (COO MaidSafe)
We know Artificial Intelligence (AI) is coming, we see the Internet of Things (IoT) happening.
We know trains, planes and automobiles will become autonomous. This is not news. We know data is key to modern industries, we know robots will communicate, we understand and accept securing all of this will be a nightmare. The consequences of failure could be cataclysmic. I will refrain from inserting the obligatory terminator graphic here.
We also know that companies, projects and devices need to not only communicate, but they also need to share information securely. This is another issue. If nobody, including the NSA…
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Initially this “use case” is more like a “reuse case” to solutions that some blockchain based projects have promoted or implemented. This post will not name or directly criticise any project in the space, innovation is innovation and will always improve. We need to take step one, but we need to realise it is the first of many. I hope this post also encourages more people to dig a little deeper into this important area.
This first case I would like to discuss is where projects use a public ledger (blockchain) and claim to…
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In the last post, I discussed “the impossible network”, an autonomous network designed to protect the worlds people and their data. Before moving on to use cases for such a network, I thought it required a little more clarification.
Many people have said that sounds like project … (insert many blockchain products that store data), however I think this could not be further from the case. SAFE is an autonomous network for a start, I do not think any other project that manages private and public data claims this (private means it must provide…
In recent weeks and months, the MaidSafe team have been very quietly progressing something quite amazing. The dedication and commitment of the team is admirable, but the task is so great that we forget how huge the prospects are. Not only that we also at times forget to talk publicly about it. This will change I am sure, but in this personal blog I do intend to get the message across and try to really explain the potential here, it is quite astounding and can change our world, but it needs better understood, even by early adopters.
The Back Story
We have had…
What?
A chain is an image we all know. It represents strength and reliability. Bitcoin has made use of such imagery in the implementation of a blockchain. A blockchain is a chain of links where each link couples transactions (blocks of transactions) in a reliable and cryptographically secured manner.
Data chains represent, instead, links that couples together data identifiers. A data identifier is not the data. As the blockchain does not hold bitcoins a data chain does not hold data.
This post discusses an overview of data chains, there is also an RFC covering some basic use of DataChains and…
The features included in decentralized networks can be quite varied based on the proposed goals of the technology. From the sharing capabilities offered by Bittorrent to user privacy enabled via To…
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