Sapience AIFX integrates artificial intelligence on the blockchain
Tuesday 10 March 2015 | 12:04 PM CET
   
New cryptocurrency and AI project Sapience AIFX has introduced the use of artificial intelligence (AI) with the blockchain.

By combining modern AI with the blockchain technology and complete peer-to-peer platform of Bitcoin protocol, Sapience AIFX has introduced artificial intelligence into the blockchain and cryptocurrency networks.

The decentralized Sapience AIFX project has developed a distributed artificial intelligence system running on a cryptocurrency network. In addition, the project has implemented a database platform running entirely over the Bitcoin peer-to-peer protocol.

First Cryptocurrency To Utilize Artificial Intelligence On The Blockchain, Sapience AIFX Connects Bitcoin-based Coin Networks Into A Singularity, Leads Consumerization Of The Blockchain

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Bitcoin Press Release: Bitcoin based decentralized peer-to-peer cryptocurrency and AI project Sapience AIFX is first to integrate artificial intelligence on the blockchain. Sapience AIFX project is developing a distributed artificial intelligence system with the goal of enabling neural network services to be consumed by both users and systems.

New cryptocurrency and AI project Sapience AIFX (ticker: XAI) is the first on the market to introduce the use of artificial intelligence (AI) with the blockchain. Artificial Intelligence has intrigued generations and has, with today’s technology, the potential to be introduced to a wide spectra of markets. By combining modern AI with the blockchain technology and complete peer-to-peer platform of Satoshi Nakamoto’s bitcoin protocol; Sapience AIFX have introduced artificial intelligence into the blockchain and cryptocurrency networks; a concept unprecedented in today’s cryptocurrency model.

The decentralized Sapience AIFX project has developed a distributed artificial intelligence system running on a cryptocurrency network. In addition, the project has implemented the first distributed database platform running entirely over the bitcoin peer-to-peer protocol, built on top of a distributed hash table with redundancy, resiliency, and multi-dimensional trie-based indexing. These technologies are the first core pieces in the Sapience AIFX platform strategy to be the market leader in the consumerization of the blockchain.

The project has implemented the first in-wallet interactive Lua shell, bringing developers unprecedented capabilities to build solutions leveraging the blockchain, multi-layer perceptron networks, and distributed data storage. The possibilities span from algorithmic trading tools to bioinformatics and data mining, and the traditional applications of deep learning.

The project’s scope has been called “Tesla-esque crazy” and is focused on building end-to-end tools to own the value chain from a deep technology stack to an unparalleled user experience, all enabled by the Sapience Engine. The project will next bring to market a decentralized in-wallet asset experience compatible with the Counterparty protocol, a next generation cross-platform end user wallet, XaiOS privacy-oriented Android custom ROM pre-configured with a number of crypto-currency wallets selected as part of XaiNET, and the Sapience DarkPhone – an Android phone running XaiOS that makes it simple for mainstream users to get started with Bitcoin and pre-installed alternative crypto-currencies using the Sapience AIFX next-generation wallet technology.

Sapience AIFX is the brainchild of American founder Joe Mozelesky who has used his personal interest in AI and 20 plus years of experience in the software and consulting industry, as well as his experience as a partner and practice director to contribute to the launch of the Sapience AIFX platform. Mozelesky is an experienced software architect and has delivered large scale enterprise solutions, commercial product development services, real time systems, and solutions in critical national infrastructure. Mozelesky is now excited to deliver the first digital currency applying AI to the cryptocurrency community and mainstream audience.

Passionate about his aerospace hobbies, Mozelesky aims to develop and launch the XaiSAT micro-satellite running an optimized Sapience AIFX node from low earth orbit, with a long term goal of deploying a Lunar Node on the surface of the moon using an enhanced CubeSat architecture.

Sapience is a Proof of Stake cryptocurrency, and was distributed according to the percentage that each donator contributed to the crowd funding campaign. The total number of Sapience coins is 1,123,580, based on the Fibonacci sequence. As a result of burning unsold coins after the crowd fund closed, by sending the unsold coins to a provably un-spendable address, the total number of coins available effectively dropped to approximately 653,734. Sapience Proof-of-stake interest rate is 11% per year, and coins mature after 112 confirmations.

With the launch of Sapience AIFX, the world’s first cryptocurrency integrating artificial intelligence and inter-connecting coin networks using the standard bitcoin protocol; blockchain technology might very well have entered a new era of innovation.

I can't really speak for the price talk, alt markets are crazy these days with low volume and uncertainty around BTC, although I think we will see a positive outcome from this latest US Marshals auction and the BTC 3d chart is looking pretty good to me.

What I can say is that I have a pretty big vision for this platform that hits hard both on the tech end and on the adoption/user experience end, and I want to push things harder/farther than most other coins have managed to do so far in terms of achieving a certain level of ease-of-use and intuitiveness that makes the onramp easier for kind of the next layer out in the onion of more general tech enthusiasts.  I am not a Bitcoin maximalist, but I do believe in Bitcoin and the bitcoin protocol, and so another agenda for me is looking at opportunities for technology crossover to Bitcoin and how we can maybe achieve some direct integration scenarios.  All of that will make more sense as our infographics and mar-com materials start to come out.

Here's a peak at the roadmap just for the AI Core through the end of 4Q2015:



http://issuu.com/sapienceaifx/docs/_internal__-_sapience_aifx_2015_ai_

Don't mind me, I just watched Citizen Four last week and had the "holy shit" reaction, so there you go I can leak my own Top Secret document

Note that neuromining is NOT something like AI POW algorithms or anything like that, its something different.  What we are doing is getting the basic "scale out" working first, and then this will enable "scale up" at the edges and another new type of micro-economy/market aka the Neural Cloud.

^^^ There, fixed that for you

That's right! For the first time ever in an alt coin, the masses don't have to figure out how to buy bitcoins and then invest into crypto. They simply have to be willing to go on a treasure hunt 

Think how easy it is to get people into GEO & crypto all of a sudden. Geocoin is going to spread like wildfire. A massive geographic airdrop would be so cool.

I feel this is history in the making.

This brings up an important question.  Do the GeoCoins need to be dropped within areas of cell coverage?  I assume your mobile device needs to be online to accept the GeoCoins.

RECALL update video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5PNWf1Kg_Q

Looks like excellent progress Tobler!  I'll be happy to help test this over the weekend when I have more time!  Nice work so far!! 

Hello, hope everybody had a good weekend.  Last week we made good progress on the development front and had a number of stability fixes that tested out well.  I'll probably do another Recall video tomorrow, a little overtired at the moment, better to do it when I'm fresh   Got our PR draft back late last week, will get that edited and revised this week.  Have had a lot of requests for chess, so I'll be looking at doing something like NeuroChess, although that will probably be something queued up down the road a bit in another week or two.  Will probably drop another public testnet build in the next day or two.

Public Testnet Wallet


sapience-qt-plm-windows64bit-19.zip 9.9 MB

This is a latest build from today that you can experiment with to see what it is we are building in action.  It is a bleeding-edge TEST build and therefore it will have bugs, issues, etc.  The Python shell is disabled in this Windows build while I sort through mingw issues and debate whether to swap to Lua.

You should only run this on testnet and not on mainnet with your wallets you care about.

You can either pass testnet from the command line:


Or put an entry in your Sapience.conf file:


Note that since it is on testnet, we may reset the blockchain from time to time etc.  We'll try to give a heads up.  Also you will need coins on testnet to pay for data reservations, please post on the dfx.io forum thread for that:  http://forums.dfx.io/index.php?topic=82.0

The core of PlumeDB is fully functional in this build and we already have someone who is building an interesting demo app on top of it that looks pretty awesome.

Have fun!

Just a glimpse into the short and long term roadmap under the Sapience Space Program/XSA:

No joke.

XAI is really a lot more than "just" an "AI coin".  Sapience AIFX is intended to be a complete next-gen advanced blockchain platform, but deeply rooted in the Bitcoin protocol, building on top of and making full use of the capabilities that already exist in the Bitcoin protocol but that, to date, have been largely underutilized by alt-coins.  Why reinvent the wheel to produce so-called "Bitcoin 2.0" platforms when there is so much yet to be realized within the existing well-defined protocol specification.  So, to me, maybe this is "Bitcoin 3.0" concept, revisiting the roots...I dunno.

Next up on the roadmap is completion of the AI Core.  This leverages the Plume data store solution to provide a scriptable AI lib with an in-wallet script editor and interactive shell.  Most likely this shell is going to be swapped from Python to Lua for a couple of reasons:

1. Easier cross-platform compilation and integration
2. Lua has already gained a lot of traction in the game world for scriptable game AI
3. Its a lot more lightweight and therefore more resource friendly for devices like Raspberry Pi and Android

We have our own asset platform in the works, based on Counterparty but fully integrated in-wallet requiring no external daemon etc.  Our intention is to deliver a high quality user experience and make this really accessible to pull in folks from the regular investing world, decentralized with no dependency on web wallets etc.  Initially we will probably roll out an in-between solution.

Once the asset platform is up we are planning to do an issue of "xainodes" tokens that will be something akin to Bitshares AGS and operate as a DAC/DAO on the XAI blockchain, and possibly a vehicle to provide dev funding through the rest of this year.

XaiNet - We have already demo'd a PoC of IBTP in action.  This is our cross-blockchain communication solution that is really out-of-the-box Bitcoin P2P.  I simply dropped in the IBTP class and added an addnode in Litecoin and Shadow config files to connect them to my XAI node.  This allows us to send cross-coin-network messages directly between peers using the existing messaging structure in the Bitcoin protocol, but is smart enough so that peers from "foreign" networks don't try to exchange block inventory with each other etc.  This capability will allow us to hook both the scriptable AI engine and the asset platform in to every other coin network and allow us to then do interesting things with data from those networks and share services between them.

Our NextGen wallet is a complete Qt front-end wallet rewrite to provide a user experience that is more "with the times" and consistent across devices and platforms with flickable touch interfaces, etc.  This is really the key in our minds to gaining traction with a larger audience in the mass market.

As part of the NextGen wallet rewrite we are going to enable an NFC payments experience for users, for a simpler alternative to QR codes.

The #LunarNode project is a real endeavor on the long range roadmap.  It's the stretch goal / dream big goal for our project overall.  As a first step we would like to launch a XaiSat into low earth orbit.  These micro satellites are now widely available although they tend to have a short lifespan in space, but the standardization of the form factor since the late 90's has brought the cost down considerably.  There are a couple of engineering challenges we will need to solve around optimized synchronization/communication and equipment power, optimizing the code base for running on a low power device with lower power consumption.  There are a couple of interesting inspiring projects like the LunarSail project that are looking at alternatives for transit to the lunar area, as well as a faster delivery vehicle in development.  LunarSail is projecting something like a 3 year transit time to the moon, but there are a few other projects that we might be able to pull tech from and combine them to produce a faster transit time.  There's a project right now looking at using pressurized water.  So as a second step we would like to shoot for getting to lunar orbit, and then attempt de-orbit and a landing on the surface.  Our idea is perhaps a bit less ambitious than the Doge lunar race in that we aren't looking to transport and produce a mobile rover.  We simply want to deploy a functioning self-powered node on the surface, which we are thinking will entail something in the CubeSat form factor that can then "unfold" itself on the surface to provide more exposed solar panel surface area, etc.

On tap for this week, we are looking to push out the AI Core features on testnet with some new builds to fulfill the original scope.  I'll also be integrating addressindex to support the asset platform, implementing internal P2P compression, and Plume bug fixes and API/RPC enhancements.  We'll be thinking through the possibilities with the potential xainodes token sale vs some alternatives.  And we have marketing activities running on a background thread.

I have had more than a couple of people asking me about the IBTP p2p connectivity I demonstrated with LiteCoin and Shadow.  Apparently some folks are under the mistaken impression that this is using some sort of PROXY server simply because I had pointed it at my localhost IP.

THERE IS NO PROXY in this solution.  It is a DIRECT connection using out-of-the-box Bitcoin protocol features.  IT IS JUST BITCOIN.

This is enabled in the testnet build that was already released.  You can grab a LiteCoin wallet, put an addnode=yourip:30893 in your litecoin.conf file, fire it up on litecoin testnet and you will see the LiteCoin peer show up in getpeerinfo in your Sapience AIFX testnet wallet.  Can do the same with Shadow as well.  At some point we will look at how we want to go about including coins in XaiNet.

Also wanted to point out that we will be able to offer a XaiWire encrypted P2P messaging solution over the out-of-the-box Bitcoin communications channel using IBTP.  This is an "enabling technology" that will allow us to build more exciting applications on top of our advanced blockchain platform.

No friggin proxy required.  Thank you very much.  

All of this stuff is going to be implemented directly into the bitcoin code eventually. this is a scam coin beware

Public Testnet Wallet


sapience-qt-plm-windows64bit-19.zip 9.9 MB

This is a latest build from today that you can experiment with to see what it is we are building in action.  It is a bleeding-edge TEST build and therefore it will have bugs, issues, etc.  The Python shell is disabled in this Windows build while I sort through mingw issues and debate whether to swap to Lua.

You should only run this on testnet and not on mainnet with your wallets you care about.

You can either pass testnet from the command line:


Or put an entry in your Sapience.conf file:


Note that since it is on testnet, we may reset the blockchain from time to time etc.  We'll try to give a heads up.  Also you will need coins on testnet to pay for data reservations, please post on the dfx.io forum thread for that:  http://forums.dfx.io/index.php?topic=82.0

The core of PlumeDB is fully functional in this build and we already have someone who is building an interesting demo app on top of it that looks pretty awesome.

Have fun!

Just a glimpse into the short and long term roadmap under the Sapience Space Program/XSA:

No joke.

XAI is really a lot more than "just" an "AI coin".  Sapience AIFX is intended to be a complete next-gen advanced blockchain platform, but deeply rooted in the Bitcoin protocol, building on top of and making full use of the capabilities that already exist in the Bitcoin protocol but that, to date, have been largely underutilized by alt-coins.  Why reinvent the wheel to produce so-called "Bitcoin 2.0" platforms when there is so much yet to be realized within the existing well-defined protocol specification.  So, to me, maybe this is "Bitcoin 3.0" concept, revisiting the roots...I dunno.

Next up on the roadmap is completion of the AI Core.  This leverages the Plume data store solution to provide a scriptable AI lib with an in-wallet script editor and interactive shell.  Most likely this shell is going to be swapped from Python to Lua for a couple of reasons:

1. Easier cross-platform compilation and integration
2. Lua has already gained a lot of traction in the game world for scriptable game AI
3. Its a lot more lightweight and therefore more resource friendly for devices like Raspberry Pi and Android

We have our own asset platform in the works, based on Counterparty but fully integrated in-wallet requiring no external daemon etc.  Our intention is to deliver a high quality user experience and make this really accessible to pull in folks from the regular investing world, decentralized with no dependency on web wallets etc.  Initially we will probably roll out an in-between solution.

Once the asset platform is up we are planning to do an issue of "xainodes" tokens that will be something akin to Bitshares AGS and operate as a DAC/DAO on the XAI blockchain, and possibly a vehicle to provide dev funding through the rest of this year.

XaiNet - We have already demo'd a PoC of IBTP in action.  This is our cross-blockchain communication solution that is really out-of-the-box Bitcoin P2P.  I simply dropped in the IBTP class and added an addnode in Litecoin and Shadow config files to connect them to my XAI node.  This allows us to send cross-coin-network messages directly between peers using the existing messaging structure in the Bitcoin protocol, but is smart enough so that peers from "foreign" networks don't try to exchange block inventory with each other etc.  This capability will allow us to hook both the scriptable AI engine and the asset platform in to every other coin network and allow us to then do interesting things with data from those networks and share services between them.

Our NextGen wallet is a complete Qt front-end wallet rewrite to provide a user experience that is more "with the times" and consistent across devices and platforms with flickable touch interfaces, etc.  This is really the key in our minds to gaining traction with a larger audience in the mass market.

As part of the NextGen wallet rewrite we are going to enable an NFC payments experience for users, for a simpler alternative to QR codes.

The #LunarNode project is a real endeavor on the long range roadmap.  It's the stretch goal / dream big goal for our project overall.  As a first step we would like to launch a XaiSat into low earth orbit.  These micro satellites are now widely available although they tend to have a short lifespan in space, but the standardization of the form factor since the late 90's has brought the cost down considerably.  There are a couple of engineering challenges we will need to solve around optimized synchronization/communication and equipment power, optimizing the code base for running on a low power device with lower power consumption.  There are a couple of interesting inspiring projects like the LunarSail project that are looking at alternatives for transit to the lunar area, as well as a faster delivery vehicle in development.  LunarSail is projecting something like a 3 year transit time to the moon, but there are a few other projects that we might be able to pull tech from and combine them to produce a faster transit time.  There's a project right now looking at using pressurized water.  So as a second step we would like to shoot for getting to lunar orbit, and then attempt de-orbit and a landing on the surface.  Our idea is perhaps a bit less ambitious than the Doge lunar race in that we aren't looking to transport and produce a mobile rover.  We simply want to deploy a functioning self-powered node on the surface, which we are thinking will entail something in the CubeSat form factor that can then "unfold" itself on the surface to provide more exposed solar panel surface area, etc.

On tap for this week, we are looking to push out the AI Core features on testnet with some new builds to fulfill the original scope.  I'll also be integrating addressindex to support the asset platform, implementing internal P2P compression, and Plume bug fixes and API/RPC enhancements.  We'll be thinking through the possibilities with the potential xainodes token sale vs some alternatives.  And we have marketing activities running on a background thread.

I have had more than a couple of people asking me about the IBTP p2p connectivity I demonstrated with LiteCoin and Shadow.  Apparently some folks are under the mistaken impression that this is using some sort of PROXY server simply because I had pointed it at my localhost IP.

THERE IS NO PROXY in this solution.  It is a DIRECT connection using out-of-the-box Bitcoin protocol features.  IT IS JUST BITCOIN.

This is enabled in the testnet build that was already released.  You can grab a LiteCoin wallet, put an addnode=yourip:30893 in your litecoin.conf file, fire it up on litecoin testnet and you will see the LiteCoin peer show up in getpeerinfo in your Sapience AIFX testnet wallet.  Can do the same with Shadow as well.  At some point we will look at how we want to go about including coins in XaiNet.

Also wanted to point out that we will be able to offer a XaiWire encrypted P2P messaging solution over the out-of-the-box Bitcoin communications channel using IBTP.  This is an "enabling technology" that will allow us to build more exciting applications on top of our advanced blockchain platform.

No friggin proxy required.  Thank you very much. 

You are both wrong, and obviosly you have never unlocked any phone.

85% of the world makes contracts with operators to get free device. That device is locked on that operator.
You can not use any other sim card from different operator. We are providing codes that can unlock that limitation.
GSM unlocking bussiness is far more bigger then Bitcoin itself. But you can't know that 'cos you are not into it.
We, at GSMcoin are providing that service and we are accepting GSMcoins for our service.
p.s. unlocking mobile phones in the world is paid service. You can check it by calling your operator.
There is small percent of individuals who can unlock their phone for free, but there is number if therms they need to meet:
To be loyal customer, to be present customer of that operator, they need to be out of 2 years contract.
We are offer unlocking of phones in contract too! keep that in mind.
And just for instance, if you make a contract with AT&T and get iPhone 6 for 199$ is not the same when you want to buy the same iPhone 6 for 699$.
And that phone is LOCKED !
Another thing that you got to know that the main distribution channels for phone vendors are operators and carriers, not eBay or some internet stores.
Phones supplied buy operators and carriers are locked.
Make a little research before posting here.

Trader19,
How did you get your Mac wallet to stake? None of my blocks are accepted when staking on my Mac.
I get the following ...
Status: conflicted
Date: 2/23/15 08:07
Source: Generated
Debit: 0.00 XQN
Net amount: -9999.98 XQN
Transaction ID: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Generated coins must mature 510 blocks before they can be spent. When you generated this block, it was broadcast to the network to be added to the block chain. If it fails to get into the chain, its state will change to "not accepted" and it won't be spendable. This may occasionally happen if another node generates a block within a few seconds of yours.

CEDRIC GIVE ME BACK MY MONEY. I SOLD IN THE FIRST DUMP.

Do you or anyone else know how long it takes for coins to mature? still getting same message.

There are people pumping something, all the time. There are people fudding something, all the time. This is precisely why I've advised caution on this thread, numerous times, when large swings occurred followed by a flooding of HYPE or FUD. However, I find it incorrect to be characterizing the project as a P&D on the (potential) actions of some speculation/trading group.


I can't agree with your conclusions about past value achievements. You are ignoring the number of coins in existence, ignoring the crowd fund valuation, ignoring the absence of competing projects, ignoring the real use case presented by Sapience/XAI. You are solely focusing on the market activity, turning your observations into "fact", and drawing all of your conclusions from there.
 
There is a real use case for Sapience/XAI, and it's been known from day one. Granted, development hasn't reach a state of maturity or functionality yet that completely realizes that use case, but progress has been very well received and tested by those of us running testnet nodes or sample applications.


Sort of agree. Yes, until the use case is fulfilled with real world applications and a sense of demand is established, any valuation attempt is speculative. Again, looking by market cap and by the relative position of Sapience/XAI against a few other coins out there - particularly the lot of which that have no use case at all - I speculate that XAI is severely undervalued.

Public Testnet Wallet


sapience-qt-plm-windows64bit-19.zip 9.9 MB

This is a latest build from today that you can experiment with to see what it is we are building in action.  It is a bleeding-edge TEST build and therefore it will have bugs, issues, etc.  The Python shell is disabled in this Windows build while I sort through mingw issues and debate whether to swap to Lua.

You should only run this on testnet and not on mainnet with your wallets you care about.

You can either pass testnet from the command line:


Or put an entry in your Sapience.conf file:


Note that since it is on testnet, we may reset the blockchain from time to time etc.  We'll try to give a heads up.  Also you will need coins on testnet to pay for data reservations, please post on the dfx.io forum thread for that:  http://forums.dfx.io/index.php?topic=82.0

The core of PlumeDB is fully functional in this build and we already have someone who is building an interesting demo app on top of it that looks pretty awesome.

Have fun!

Just a glimpse into the short and long term roadmap under the Sapience Space Program/XSA:

No joke.

XAI is really a lot more than "just" an "AI coin".  Sapience AIFX is intended to be a complete next-gen advanced blockchain platform, but deeply rooted in the Bitcoin protocol, building on top of and making full use of the capabilities that already exist in the Bitcoin protocol but that, to date, have been largely underutilized by alt-coins.  Why reinvent the wheel to produce so-called "Bitcoin 2.0" platforms when there is so much yet to be realized within the existing well-defined protocol specification.  So, to me, maybe this is "Bitcoin 3.0" concept, revisiting the roots...I dunno.

Next up on the roadmap is completion of the AI Core.  This leverages the Plume data store solution to provide a scriptable AI lib with an in-wallet script editor and interactive shell.  Most likely this shell is going to be swapped from Python to Lua for a couple of reasons:

1. Easier cross-platform compilation and integration
2. Lua has already gained a lot of traction in the game world for scriptable game AI
3. Its a lot more lightweight and therefore more resource friendly for devices like Raspberry Pi and Android

We have our own asset platform in the works, based on Counterparty but fully integrated in-wallet requiring no external daemon etc.  Our intention is to deliver a high quality user experience and make this really accessible to pull in folks from the regular investing world, decentralized with no dependency on web wallets etc.  Initially we will probably roll out an in-between solution.

Once the asset platform is up we are planning to do an issue of "xainodes" tokens that will be something akin to Bitshares AGS and operate as a DAC/DAO on the XAI blockchain, and possibly a vehicle to provide dev funding through the rest of this year.

XaiNet - We have already demo'd a PoC of IBTP in action.  This is our cross-blockchain communication solution that is really out-of-the-box Bitcoin P2P.  I simply dropped in the IBTP class and added an addnode in Litecoin and Shadow config files to connect them to my XAI node.  This allows us to send cross-coin-network messages directly between peers using the existing messaging structure in the Bitcoin protocol, but is smart enough so that peers from "foreign" networks don't try to exchange block inventory with each other etc.  This capability will allow us to hook both the scriptable AI engine and the asset platform in to every other coin network and allow us to then do interesting things with data from those networks and share services between them.

Our NextGen wallet is a complete Qt front-end wallet rewrite to provide a user experience that is more "with the times" and consistent across devices and platforms with flickable touch interfaces, etc.  This is really the key in our minds to gaining traction with a larger audience in the mass market.

As part of the NextGen wallet rewrite we are going to enable an NFC payments experience for users, for a simpler alternative to QR codes.

The #LunarNode project is a real endeavor on the long range roadmap.  It's the stretch goal / dream big goal for our project overall.  As a first step we would like to launch a XaiSat into low earth orbit.  These micro satellites are now widely available although they tend to have a short lifespan in space, but the standardization of the form factor since the late 90's has brought the cost down considerably.  There are a couple of engineering challenges we will need to solve around optimized synchronization/communication and equipment power, optimizing the code base for running on a low power device with lower power consumption.  There are a couple of interesting inspiring projects like the LunarSail project that are looking at alternatives for transit to the lunar area, as well as a faster delivery vehicle in development.  LunarSail is projecting something like a 3 year transit time to the moon, but there are a few other projects that we might be able to pull tech from and combine them to produce a faster transit time.  There's a project right now looking at using pressurized water.  So as a second step we would like to shoot for getting to lunar orbit, and then attempt de-orbit and a landing on the surface.  Our idea is perhaps a bit less ambitious than the Doge lunar race in that we aren't looking to transport and produce a mobile rover.  We simply want to deploy a functioning self-powered node on the surface, which we are thinking will entail something in the CubeSat form factor that can then "unfold" itself on the surface to provide more exposed solar panel surface area, etc.

and don't forget that same joe released FIRST real AI working engine based on traditional p2p Bitcoin protocol, over delivered? how many devs are able to build that kind of tech? be free to test, its alive on testnet. and give your feedback