Lisk is now part of the Microsoft Azure Blockchain as a Service program.


https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-blockchain-update-6/




You do realise that Microsoft has a new CEO who is absolutely amazing? Since he became the CEO the Microsoft shares went up 1.5x in value. Many are now starting to believe in Microsoft again. They became big supporters of open source and JavaScript.



1. We are doing dapps not smart contracts, however with Chain of Things we are researching possible standardisation and ways to work together.
2. Just because code is open source doesn't mean others can simply copy it. If you have enough trust you can also hide the source code.
3. What is "our choice"? We haven't implemented a specific storage provider.
4. We had lengthy discussions about this. Go to page 150.



It certainly is.

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Lisk Crowd-funding for Dapp's
A dapp which will allow to crowd-fund different dapp ideas.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=25


Mesh Networking with Distributed Storage
Using mobile devices, stationary nodes or dedicated autonomous drone routers to provide a mesh network. A token on a Lisk sidechain would create an incentive and the sidechain would also secure it. The mesh network also makes creates a decentralized cloud / distributed storage for data.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=26


LETS BET ON IT
Bet on an provable event. You can propose a bet, make a one-on-one (private) bet, or a group bet. It's similar to a prediction market.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=28


US JOBS Act Compliant Equity Crowd-funding
A dapp which will allow startups to sell small amounts of shares directly to a crowd. Similar to micro investing.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=30


D'cypher & D'Mixtape
A platform for musicians (especially Rap artists) to get paid for their rap cyphers (lyrics) and mixtapes. Users who see or download them need to pay a small amount directly to the artist(s).

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=31


Crowdsharing Dapp
Crowd-funding the other way around. A crowd comes together and donate money for an unknown cause. Once the crowd-fund is done, the donors can vote (equivalent to their donation stake) for what idea the money should be used.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=32


Proof of Existence Dapp
A dapp in which you can select local files on your computer and save the hash from them into the dapp sidechain. Together with your account number and timestamp this will be an alternative to notaries/contracts.

Alternatively the file can also be uploaded to IPFS.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=33


Dust | An In-Development Decentralized Trust Platform
A decentralized trust platform, in which others can vouch for people or rate them. Similar to BitRated.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=34


Time Capsule
Record information to the sidechain and set a date/time in the future at which the information will be released. Technically, this means the private key to the encryption will be made public at a specific block height.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=35


Encrypted Storage of Contacts and Messages
This dapp will store contacts and messages of a Lisk account encrypted in the sidechain.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=36


Decentralized Casino Dapp
A casino game which doesn't rely on a centralized house stake. Everyone can participate in the casino on both sides, as the gambler and as the house. That means someone could give money to the casino which others can win, but if they loose he would earn the money from them.

This idea would remove any central figure in the casino and makes it truly decentralized.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=37


Dapper - a Graphic Editor for Dapp Creation
A dapp which helps you to build your own dapp though a user interface. You could simply click the logic by using pre-written commands.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=39


Decentralized Crypto Exchange
A decentralized exchange to trade crypto-currency against LISK.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=40


Coupon Exchange
A register of coupons for various online shops and services. The coupons can be up voted. An incentive can be created by reward those who upload coupons.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=41


Peer Trader - Decentralized Crypto Trading
A decentralized exchange for 2 currency pairs.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=42


Video game / App Store
An app store for video games, in which small development studios could add their games. In comparison to the traditional app stores they won't have to pay 30%+ in royalties.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=43


Decentralized Tumblr w/ Monetisation for content creators
A decentralized platform for content creators to distribute and sell their art pieces (pictures, soundtracks, lyrics, poems, stories..). They can create a Tumblr like profile/blog stream to show their art pieces. People can then upvote/re-blog them and buy the art pieces.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=45


Teenagers 14-17 Job search
A platform for teenagers to find jobs in their area. The teenagers could also directly get paid through the platform or get reviews by their previous bosses.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=48


Billing for utilities services
Only pay what you use. With this dapp utility companies, condos administrations, hotels and AirBnB users could only charge the exact amount of water/energy/gas used. Combined with an IoT device they could even stop further access.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=49


Coin Multiplier Matrix
A pyramid scheme. Every user send a fixed amount of LISK to the scheme. User 1 gets the LISK of the 10 following users. User 2 of the next 10 and so on. This way a user would get 10 times more LISK. Early adopters will be the only ones who will benefit from this.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=50


Lisk Randomizer
A lottery dapp. 10 people would always buy tickets, and 1 winner would be elected between them. The next 10 people do the same. This way the 10 people always have a 10% chance of winning.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=51


Decentralized Prediction Market
People can bet on events, the correct outcome is evaluated by reporters.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=53


E-Sports Betting
Place bets on electronic gaming events. Either utilizing a custom token or directly with LISK.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=55


Movie Box Office Stock Exchange
Betting on box office grosses or actors. The assets (movies/actors) could be sold or traded, similar like on a stock exchange. See the "Hollywood Stock Exchange" for reference.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=56


Sectrials, enforcing Clinical Trials data collection safety
Securing clinical trials data on a Lisk sidechain.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=58


GiveMeCredit
A reward and voting dapp for articles in the internet. Demo

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=60


SatekPro Distributing Satellite Image Processing
Providing a universal market for processing available satellite images.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=61


Decentralized Autonomous Network in Elastic Lisk Safecoin
A system to auction computation power, e.g. for mining other coins.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=63


Startup Vote Donation
Donate money and in the same time vote with your money.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=64


Universal basic income
Create tokens which can be given to homeless people. With these tokens the homeless people can buy food at special shops.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=46


Decentralized Autonomous Corporation
The funds donated to the corporation is in complete control of the community. That means the corporation is dependent by their votes and can be managed decentralized.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=65


Point of Sale dapp
It accepts payments without card terminals

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=66


ATLASS - P2P Autonomous Transport and Storage
Selling and renting vehicles in a  decentralized fashion. This will allow fully autonomous vehicle renting.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=29


Delegate Profit Sharing
A delegate pool dapp, which distributes delegate earnings to its voters.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=27


Trustament - A Deadman Switch Dapp
The dapp sends encrypted messages to specified recipients via email and/or other media in the event the account balance goes beneath a threshold or the user fails to sign in within a specified time interval.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24


Autonomous Bullion ATM Vault Backed Currency
A secure ATM which checks if the bullions aren't counterfeit. The owner gets a receipt which confirms that.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=67


Autonomous Fiat ATM Backed Digital Currency
A secure ATM which checks if the provider has access to enough FIAT money.

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=68


LiskBet
Blockchain based sports betting dapp.

Full details: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IOAvXidA5tIJU4ods3_W_SWszCsry4xiW29ChOTQly0/edit

http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=69

Nach dem ICO werden wir mehr Infos dazu veröffentlichen.

We have a developer. We will hire more developers once we get access to the money. Funding breakdown will be published in our business plan later. We are far too busy right now we answering tickets and questions, promoting Lisk and preparing it for the launch. Also we are still discussing quite a few things, due to the huge amount we collected so far we can make Lisk fundamentally better than initially thought. That is extremely awesome, but also requires a bit more planning/thinking.

Honestly, I'm not all that familiar with Nxt 2.0. Main reason is, because there is no summary or white paper. I won't read over dozens of pages in a forum to know what it is.

I just know that there is something going on with child chains, fNXT and so on. I think it's a bad idea to split the coins, but due to my limited knowledge about it I can't make a profound statement.

It would be great if you can give me a short summary.

Lisk is definitely Nxt inspired, but not Nxt 2.0. We are also inspired by BitShare's DPoS. From Ethereum we took no ideas as far as I can see.


Thanks.

I'm talking about the installed dapps a user is using. Not where the dapp data is stored. Anyway, we removed Sia. It was absolutely not suitable for our system. In the future we are going to implement IPFS.

You need to access the dapps through our dapp store. The dapp is either hosted on the node you are using, or your own computer. That means you don't need to rely on a centralized server for the dapp.

If you still want to do it, then it's unfortunately not possible right now. In the future we will obviously add the option to access a dapp through a domain on one server.

For your interest. I'm full time Lisk. I obviously canceled all my exams. Right now I'm working over 100 hours for Lisk every week. I cannot compete with Vitalik on mathematical/theoretical dicussions. If we talk about user experience I'm miles ahead. For other characteristics I don't know Vitalik good enough.

Personally, I like to compare Lisk's approach to Apple's. We build an all-round solution here: Dapps, Sidechains, Dapp Store, Clients, Explorer, Faucet etc. with the best possible user experience for our users.

Medium long-term (6-12 months) we are tackling the mainstream crowd. Looking outside of the crypto-currency community, getting fresh blood into Lisk. To do this, we need to make some drastic changes and bold moves. However, Oliver and I definitely know what sort of applications a "regular user" can manage and what areas of a crypto-currency platform should better be hidden from them.

Voters will vote, because 1. they might get LISK and even more importantly 2. they secure the whole network with their votes.

Why do we exclude entire countries? Where did I say you MUST join a pool? People don't need to be completely public, a well known username is often more worth than a real identity.

It's not like I don't "want" to disclose the information. I just "can't". We will announce it as soon as possible.

Also take a look at our blockchain explorer for Crypti: https://cryptichain.lisk.io/delegateMonitor

There you see that even though we own over 62% of all Crypti you will still need about 10M XCR to get control over the Crypti network.

Please see my post above. It seems you don't understand our current system. With 1% you will never grab any seat at Lisk. Not if you are on your own and alone to vote for yourself.

That's not true. If he owns 1% he can't do anything. At Crypti you needed about 20% of all XCR to be at #80 without any other votes. Due to the forging rewards at Lisk, I suspect this number to be higher in our case.

It seems like you not entirely understand our system. Please read https://lisk.io/documentation?i=lisk-docs/README.

Yes. If they come to the 50th delegate, they can make a 51% attack. If we now assume the 50th delegate only has an approval of 40%, then an attack indeed only need 40% of all LISK. But 40% is already a big sum, not easy to acquire. And then they have a financial incentive to secure the network.

These "groups" you describe fits very well into the picture for Bitcoin mining and Nxt forging pools I described earlier. If a large enough group of people come together they can attack any system.



That means someone who owns 1% of all LISK will ALWAYS be in the top 101. Someone who owns 2% can ALWAYS provide 2 delegates. Nobody could do something against that ever.

I will think more about it with Oliver.


Edit:

One question to you guys. If we now have your system and a group with 20% of all LISK. These guys can now split the 20% LISK between 20 accounts and vote 20 delegates into the top 101, which will stay there forever.

Where is my thinking error? The current system would be much better, because it could prevent it. Your system couldn't do anything.

I hope you saw my post on the last page?

We can't disclose this information. It's a matter of the exchanges if they want to announce it already or not.



Yes, this bounty campaign is over. 

Check out this ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Lisk/comments/477728/did_anyone_actually_bother_to_google_lisk_it/ ) and my top comment.



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1. US
2. Germany
3. UK
4. Netherlands
5. Russia
6. Brazil
7. Indonesia



There are no silly questions.

Every transaction which involves a blockchain WRITE needs fees, else you can't prevent spam. This is something the dapp dev has to take care of.

If it is in an infinite loop it will simply crash, like any regular apps. The loop can't be blockchain based, due to the fees. But it can be in the front end for example. It's a regular bug and needs to be fixed with an update.

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You assume that the first 51 delegates have less than 33% of all votes. Where you got that number?


Yes, people don't need the majority of coins, but only the majority of votes to have temporary control. This is due to the fact that all Lisk users elect the delegates.

It's not true that you state that no other blockchain system has this weakness. ALL others have this as well, but just in a different aspect.

In the case of Proof of Stake coins, the attacks obviously come back to the amount of coins you own. Therefore you can either take the total of coins you need as an argument and the centrality of the pools.

Nxt: There are currently only 411M NXT forging in "forging pools". 11 of the biggest pools have over 50% of all forging power. Due to only 411M NXT forging, you only need to have a bit over 20.55% of all NXT (411/1000*0,5=0,2055). That means NXT is attackable to 20.55% attacks as far as I see it.

In the case of Proof of Work coins, you can only use the pools hash rate as an argument.

Bitcoin: Individual mining is irrelevant. Pools are the only option. There are currently only a handful of pools with a hash rate worth mentioning. Already the top 2 pools have over 50% of all mining power.

What does that mean? It means that crypto-currencies are more centralized than commonly believed.

But! These numbers are all temporary. Same as with Lisk.

In the case of Nxt, the users can
- remove the NXT lease from the forging pools.
- forge on their own to make the total of all NXT forging going to near 100%.
- withdraw their NXT from exchanges who are exploiting their big stake.

In the case of Bitcoin, the users can
- switch pools
- use P2Pools
- Mine on their own again (questionable)


What does it mean for security? In my opinion Proof of Stake is more secure, due to the financial incentive. Why should anyone attack NXT with his own 20% of coins, for which he paid a big amount of money. Of course this argument is more philosophical than mathematical. In terms of pool power Nxt is more decentralized than Bitcoin. In Lisk case the number of "pools" = delegates are even higher.


Let's get back to Lisk. If an exchange owns so many LISK, the users can at least see and countercheck easily if the exchange is voting with these LISK. It's all visible with this API call:


If you don't know the delegate address of an exchange, only the address of the regular exchange account, then this API call helps you out:


For example on our test network for the delegate 'genesisDelegate52':


Results in:


If an exchange is abusing his power, people can see it and act. In this case they can withdraw the LISK from this exchange (decreasing the voting power of the exchange) and voting with the withdrawn LISK for other delegates (increasing the difference to the exchange even further).



A "51% attack" is just the laymen term. It's in fact a ">50% attack" and every ">50% attack" automatically is a "100% attack" as well, at least practically. If you own the majority of a system, the system is yours.

You are again wrong that this can't be said about other systems.

- At Bitcoin someone who owns 0 BTC can have the most mining power and control the whole system. (It's possible, but unlikely)
- At Nxt someone who owns 0 NXT, but received over 20% of all NXT as leased NXT can control the whole system. (Extremely unlikely)

- However, at Lisk someone with 0 LISK will have it EXTREMELY difficult to find the trust of the community to get enough votes for 51 delegates. That means he needs more votes (LISK amount*10^8) than the 51th delegate received in total from the whole network.  

This is the networks responsibility to vote accordingly and get the best security out of the DPoS system.



This won't work. Everyone would only vote for himself and everyone who owns more than 1% LISK could run at least 1 delegate forever. This is unfair, because nobody else could prevent him from doing so.



How we get more people voting:

We will introduce a "Forging Pool" in the future (as a dapp). Delegates can run them on their nodes and register their delegate account on the sidechain. With this pool the delegates can then distribute a part of their earnings to the voters automatically every X days.

This will create an incentive for users to withdraw funds from the exchanges and vote for trusted individuals. In order to confirm trusted individuals, we will introduce an "Identity Dapp" in the future, in which people can associate their account with an username, real name, social media profiles, photo, and much more.

More information about all this will follow before we launch.

Jedes Blockchain Projekt sollte sich im laufe der Zeit darum kümmern.

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