The latest Dev-Update by MaisdafeTl;DR: We are close to TEST 4 which will bring us way closer to the MVP. Lot of work done on the IP-level. Vaults in the coming test should be quite fast and stable.  There's a stable SAFE Network running on the Maidsafe droplets (server network). It's meant to test out the ideas behind SAFE and gives developers a way to test their Dapps with the API. Link to the stable droplet test networkEnjoy!
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 An article appeared on the Maidsafe Blog about "Project Decorum" Link to the articleDuring the course of 2016, MaidSafe have been privy to a number of projects that are building on top of the SAFE Network. One such project is Decorum.
What is it?
Project Decorum is currently a research-led project, run by Harmen Klink, a computer science undergraduate at the HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht in the Netherlands. He wants to build a social media platform, which gives the user greater control of his or her data and therefore enhanced privacy – rather than today’s model which is centralised around a few service providers.
Project Decorum is currently a proof-of-concept, which Harmen has designed in order to drive a successful crowdsale, which raised over €400,000. He is aiming to use this investment to further develop the application, aspiring to create a hybrid of the best features of existing major applications, such Facebook, Reddit and Twitter...... Link to the Project Decorum websiteLink to Decorum introduction on the forumEnjoy! |
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Since the stable droplet network is online, new Dapps show up on the forum. Here's a Dapp that's used to publish data like you can on pastebin. It also allows you to publish pictures and data and share the links with friends and visitors of your safesite. SafeShare, a file sharing and document pasting web application for the Safe Network.  Here's the link to the stable SAFE Network.Here's the link to the Safeshare Dapp-page. Enjoy! |
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Someone created a Blog application to be used on The SAFE Network. As there is a stable droplet-network up and running, everyone can try it our themselves.
Ghost in the SAFE
Here's an example blog Here's the link to the project topicTo use this application you need to run The SAFE Launcher App to connect to the network. Enjoy! |
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 While we're waiting for TEST 4 in which people run Vaults from their homes again, the Maidsafe Devs decided to put up a stable network on their droplets to make sure other devs can test with a stable network, API etc. For those that want to try out The SAFE Network, follow the link, download the Launcher and Demo App and you're good to go. This is what you can do: - Register an account (your username and pass stay on your computer only)
- Register a profilename in the DNS
- Upload your personal website (safesite)
- Browse safe websites (safesites) using your own browser
- Upload private files up to 100MB total (about 4MB each). Files get chunked and encrypted before they leave your computer
Early next week we'll see TEST 4 where people can test the updates Vaults from home. Here's the link to the stable SAFE NetworkEnjoy! |
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TEST 3 from Maidsafe is over. Thanks to those who joined and tested. The devs wanted to test crust/routing to the extremes to gather info about the behavior. This is what I experienced: - The Vault was way faster than the ones before. I had a working routing table with 40 connections under 3 seconds.
- I was able to register an account, register a public name in the DNS, upload a website just like the last test.
- The test lasted for about 24 hours, Maidsafe had 100 droplet nodes running this time.
The devs are fixing bugs and will probably launch a new test in the coming days or early next week. For those that missed this test but still want to join a SAFE network, a user on the forum altered some config files so you can connect to it and test for yourself. It's quite easy to do... Link to the "Community1 test network"Have fun! |
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Maidsafe – Does Your Crypto Do That?Why do we use cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin? Some might say that the decentralized nature of cryptocurrency appeals to them. Others might say that the (not-so) anonymous nature of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are what draws them. Others still may be motivated by the speed and transparency of the blockchain, no matter which cryptocurrency is used as a mining reward. But there are problems with some modern cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin. And these problems may be just small enough to not be a bother, like the blocksize debate was in 2014, or large enough to put the entire system at risk, like the blocksize debate has become now in 2016. Whether it be governance, scalability issues, or problems with annonymity and centralization, any one of these issues could cause major disruption in the adoption and even in the actual maintenance of the network itself......
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TESTNET 3 is live, testers needed!
.....................................................Maidsafe just released the binaries for TEST 3. The software consists of: - The Vault - This program stores chunks on your harddrive and delivers data to the network.
- The SAFE Launcher - This program allows you to setup an account on the SAFE Network.
- The SAFE Demo App - This program allows you to upload you website and register a public name in the DNS.
All programs are easy to use. No terminal needed, it's click-n-run for the most part. So what's this all about?Maidsafe (the company) is working on a decentralized P2P network (The SAFE Network) that's fully encrypted. They did several tests over the last few months relying on their own droplet servers to see how the network behaves. In the last test people ran Vaults from home making it a real P2P-network. There where 200 Maidsafe nodes in the network with 590 nodes from users at home. This was the first big P2P-test of the SAFE technology. How can I join the network?It's very easy. You download and start the Vault and within minutes you see a routing table being build, chunks of data come in and more. The Vault is 100% click-n-run. No technical settings needed. It works with Linux, Windows and Mac OS. They're even working on an ARM version.
What can I do more?When you run the SAFE Launcher you can browse .safesites in your browser. It's the main entrance to the network. All Apps connect to the Launcher to get on SAFE. If you install the Demo App you can: - Register a public name on the network in the DNS (Decentralized Name System).
- Upload your own .safesite to the network.
- Browse your own and other .safesites using links like: yourname.safenet in your browser.
- Upload and download private files to the network.
This is still a testnet so there are some limitations. Your login details will never leave your computer but people might scan the network and see that you are part of it. This is on purpose because the Maidsafe-devs want to see how the network behaves. There are also size limits for the files that can be stored on the network. The network might be wiped in a few days and all your data is gone from that moment. So consider the network not safe, not stable and just join it to help the devs to see how the tech is doing. They will keep improving until the network is stable and they can't take it down anymore. Okay, I want to try this out. What should I do?Follow this link to the article by ross, he is part of the Maidsafe Dev-teamHave fun! |
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Here's the latest dev-update. MaidSafe Dev Update 10th May 2016790 nodes in the last testnet!All of us at MaidSafe would just like to extend our gratitude to everyone that took part in TEST 21 last Friday and Saturday. The SAFE community made up the majority of the nodes on the network with 790 nodes taking part (MaidSafe had 200 running), more details on the TEST 2 findings below. The next iteration of testing will be coming very soon, as usual this will be communicated to the community here on the forum. The SAFE Network truly belongs to everyone! Soon the ability for the community to run their own testnetsWe will hopefully be adding the ability for separate networks and separate network tests this week. This will allow various “testnets” to be created and run by the community for further deep testing. We think the community may offer greater help if we can provide easy mechanisms to test. Also projects like safex, decorum et al’ can then run their own testing networks, either locally or publicly. This will involve starting a Vault with a flag such as --first --name=”your test name” . This is an observation from the forum we took on board this week, along with the updates we are carrying out. Read the update for more info |
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The test was great, over 500 nodes connected to the network, including a lot of people running Vaults from home.  They took down the network to get through a lot of data, including logs from 200 droplet nodes  This was the first testnet with a big number of people running Vaults from home, there was test 2 weeks ago which was a bit to technical for most people. The last test was click and run your Vault. You could see the data come in, routing tables being filled, and more.  I'll update here when the testnet goes live again. |
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Id love to test and have a spare drive i can devote to resources on an always on machine. im sure its in here somewhere but if anyone has links handy or would know whens a good time to start testing/contributing resources maybe post some links or info.
Check their forum. It will be pinnend on top when the new testnet goes live. Including the links to the software for the Vaults and Clients. SAFE Network Forum |
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Here's the latest Dev-Update. MaidSafe Dev Update 26th April 2016Follow the development through GitHub/Maidsafe. Back into the Tuesday Dev Update cycle :slight_smile: . As you will see from the section below about our findings from Thursday's testing roll-out and the individual library sections, most of the team have focused on implementing improvements into the next network iteration. The guys are currently testing these and once happy we shall roll out new binaries ready for the next phase of community testing.
@adam has been busy working on automating the deployment process by implementing rust_everywhere into our CI system to automatically create Github releases on every version bump. He is also implementing auto Docker image creation, so deploying an up-to-date Docker container should soon be a very simple task.
So a lot has been happening since last Thursday, on with the update...
Findings from the last testnet iteration
Firstly, thanks to those who participated in last week's community testing phase, your participation is extremely helpful and is very much appreciated. As covered in forum posts from @dirvine and in yesterday's Pre-Dev-Update Update post,2 during the testnet we found improvements in:
- Churn handling (we were way too aggressive there);
- Network segmentation prevention (this one was really important for us);
- Huge improvements in mass network startup;
- Improved error / warning messages for early testers.
For more detail on how these findings have shaped the Dev team's focus and efforts since Friday it is well worth checking out yesterday's forum post (link above). I will not duplicate everything here, but as David pointed out it was indeed enlightening and helps move us forward towards our ultimate goal - launching the network.
We have been testing the next Vault release (which incorporates these improvements) today internally and the Devs are keen to ensure that the community experiences increased stability in this test roll-out. |
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It also bothers me the tone of the dev updates is indistinguishable from ad copy. It's entirely too full of pom-pom waving cheerleader rah-rah happy talk and blatant attempts to stoke irrational exuberance, exactly like Paycoin ("hey guys, we're super-excited about our super-awesome future of super-features coming super-soon!1!!"). And the posters on the Maid forum are even worse; it's like the old GAW community is having a reunion.
Why do you still come here then? And why are you visiting their forum? Why not pick another project instead of following this one? That's right, focus on the messenger in order to distract from the message. Don't blame me for Maid's MVP being delayed. Not my fault Maid's "double charging" model is intrinsically flawed and its rent-seeking dreams are doomed to fail. Sorry IPFS, ZERONET, and now http://www.fermat.org/ offer better service than Maid, at no charge. Like I thought, you don't know the answer to my question yourself. You really don't like Maidsafe but you keep checking this forum and theirs as well. It's almost funny |
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It also bothers me the tone of the dev updates is indistinguishable from ad copy. It's entirely too full of pom-pom waving cheerleader rah-rah happy talk and blatant attempts to stoke irrational exuberance, exactly like Paycoin ("hey guys, we're super-excited about our super-awesome future of super-features coming super-soon!1!!"). And the posters on the Maid forum are even worse; it's like the old GAW community is having a reunion.
Why do you still come here then? And why are you visiting their forum? Why not pick another project instead of following this one? |
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