DxChain AMA Highlights (08/29)

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Sep 2, 2018 · 3 min read

Greetings! DxChain held the routinely bi-weekly AMA on telegram group (https://t.me/dxchain) on Wednesday (8/29). It was nice to have our Co-founder & CEO Allan Zhang and Co-Founder & Chef Scientist Wei Wang with us to discuss our project. Here’s the summary.

You can also check the history if you missed out: https://t.me/dxchain/146496

[ANN]

To get prioritize answer from DxChain team, you can also leave the questions in reddit post https://www.reddit.com/user/DxChainNetwork/comments/9bnlql/dxchain_biweekly_ama_collecting_questions/.

This post is always permanent, please feel free to post your questions and suggestions there any time before the AMA.

[Highlights of the AMA]

Tech Part

Q1. Have DxChain got any technical progress recently?

Yes. Our engineers are working on the beta for the Data Storage Chain, and here are some updates:

1. Finished the Proof of Storage Verification cross the p2p network

2. Setup 100 hosts in AWS for performance lab testing

3. Finished disk IO performance tuning in file storage host side

4. Working on the file meta information extraction and analysis

Q2. Are there any updates regarding the testnet?

As said before, our engineers are working on the beta for the Data Storage Chain, and the current development progress of the team is strictly following the roadmap on our official website. The beta test network of the master chain will be launched in the late September.

Q3. Do you have any updates on partnership?

We have announced our partnership with Doctor Chain, a DCH Life health platform last week. That’s a new strategic partner of DxChain besides Quarkchain and Trustlook. In the future, DxChain will provide the fundamental technology for data storage and computing and develop the API interface of the platform for Doctor Chain; Doctor Chain will offer the resources of patients and users for DxChain as one of the most direct scenarios. The genetic data and health data owned by Doctor Chain can help strengthen DxChain’s ecosystem.

Q4. What interface will you use to connect Hadoop to your blockchain?

DxChain used map-reduce concept of Hadoop to design our blockchain infrastructure. That being said, DxChain is the decentralized Hadoop.

Marketing Part

Q1. 10k point is minimum for airdrop while almost only get 3–5k.

Don’t worry, we will have more activities in the future. You can join our Q&A Challenge every Wednesday now. The first 30 people who answered the questions correctly can win 1,000 community points.

You can also apply for the DxChain volunteers program and you can earn up to 30,000 community points as the reward.

Please stay tuned to our news channel: https://t.me/dxchainchannel

Q2. Why are we losing 200–300 members every day in telegram group?

We are cleaning the scammers gradually. And we also noticed that there were a small portion of users transferred to other platforms, including Discord and WeChat. We will continue paying attention to this situation and developing our community on various platforms.

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