Vault

Opting into transparency

One of the biggest misconceptions about the Safe network amongst those interested in bitcoin is in the tendency to assume it’s based on blockchain technology. In fact, the two technologies were developed simultaneously. By the time Satoshi had released the bitcoin whitepaper in 2009…

Using Complexity in Nature to Understand the Safe Network

Complexity is vital to the organizational patterns shown in decentralized systems. As a recurring theme when discussing the Safe network, the relationship to natural phenomenon can help less technical individuals better understand…

PmidNode Leave/Join

We have been asked many times, given that the MaidSafe network is decentralized and has no data centre backup, how data integrity and data access can be maintained when storage locations (vaults) continually join and leave the network.

Vault network test

Just to keep everyone abreast of the current state of the vault progress, I thought I’d post a quick video of our test network running (you’ll probably need to view it fullscreen, high quality if you want to see it properly).

First client chunk stored on 60 vault MaidSafe network

Last week, on the 14th Nov 2013 to be exact, our first client chunk of data was stored in our 60 vault mini MaidSafe network.

The chunk was then retrieved and verified by the client with the chunk content…