And, as we mentioned, 1 point = 0.01 €, this is inputed in the system, and won't change.

Points per task vary, typically no task will be under 10 points of value.
Tasks that are simple, such as simply sharing a social link or giving a like to a post are usually at 10 points value.

Tasks that involve leaving a comment, review, or more complex missions, start at 30 points, and go up to 400 points.

For those who are outstandingly active and involved, we will do mystery rewards (that means, we'll occasionally airdrop additional points to your profile).

We ask for a minimum 3 months commitment because I believe we do have quarterly KPIs.
Unfortunately, 1 week of activity does not tell us much about you, and it's not enough for you to get familiarized with the project.
3 months will give us sufficient time to get to know you, and you get to know us.

A second reason for the minimum length is the fact that we're building an ambassador programme in 2021, and it would really be our pleasure to be able to select prominent voices from our bounty community (advocates) and give them more earning opportunities and more freedom to craft their own contents and co-build localized communities.

Instead of bringing people who have had zero prior contact with us into a position to represent our company in their respective areas and local languages, we would prefer to do it with people who have been with us along the journey.
To add more, before you engage in any mission in the app, you will know the number of points allocated per task. You can choose not to do it, and just pick the ones with higher points. Or you can opt for both and accumulate as many points as possible.
You will also have full transparency in seeing who is in the leader board, how much you've earned, and so on.
And please remember, top 3 on the leadership board get additional perks (cash rewards for now in the form of gift cards). Additionally to the currency conversion of their monthly points.

And, as we mentioned, 1 point = 0.01 €, this is inputed in the system, and won't change.

Points per task vary, typically no task will be under 10 points of value.
Tasks that are simple, such as simply sharing a social link or giving a like to a post are usually at 10 points value.

Tasks that involve leaving a comment, review, or more complex missions, start at 30 points, and go up to 400 points.

For those who are outstandingly active and involved, we will do mystery rewards (that means, we'll occasionally airdrop additional points to your profile).

We ask for a minimum 3 months commitment because I believe we do have quarterly KPIs.
Unfortunately, 1 week of activity does not tell us much about you, and it's not enough for you to get familiarized with the project.
3 months will give us sufficient time to get to know you, and you get to know us.

A second reason for the minimum length is the fact that we're building an ambassador programme in 2021, and it would really be our pleasure to be able to select prominent voices from our bounty community (advocates) and give them more earning opportunities and more freedom to craft their own contents and co-build localized communities.

Instead of bringing people who have had zero prior contact with us into a position to represent our company in their respective areas and local languages, we would prefer to do it with people who have been with us along the journey.
To add more, before you engage in any mission in the app, you will know the number of points allocated per task. You can choose not to do it, and just pick the ones with higher points. Or you can opt for both and accumulate as many points as possible.
You will also have full transparency in seeing who is in the leader board, how much you've earned, and so on.
And please remember, top 3 on the leadership board get additional perks (cash rewards for now in the form of gift cards). Additionally to the currency conversion of their monthly points.

@criptix

Let me give you an example of how this will work, to clarify further:

Firstly, my answer above is as correct, but technically there is more to it. In the Tagion network, users do not have one or more wallets in the system. Instead, each user owns one or more private spend keys that can unlock their Tagions on the network for use.
Now, for shards - in Tagion, we call a Shard a Sub-DART, as this is technically more correct, as there is more to it than what you have going for traditional database shards. So, I'll be using the term Sub-DART in the following. And now, let's get to it:

As a rule, all Tagions exist in the Main DART. When - for various reasons - it makes sense to have some Tagions assigned to a particular Sub-DART (an example could be Alice's wallet assigning 10 Tagions to Sub-DART A that covers a certain geographical region, optimizing this for transaction speed), the 10 Tagions in the Main DART are locked and then assigned to the Sub-DART.

Now, when Alice, through her wallet pays 5 Tagions to Bob, her own 10 Tagions are destroyed, 5 new are made for herself, 5 new are made for Bob, and Sub-DART ledger entries (anonymous) are updated accordingly. Only once Alice or Bob, or anyone else that may have received Tagions out of Alice's original 10, have their wallet (or software), making a transaction out of Sub-DART A, the Main DART is updated.

This - rather complex setup - helps optimizing transaction speed and reduces the number of required transactions to move funds around, to a minimum.

The transactions that take place and the split of the Tagions in the Sub-DART are all secured by the use of cryptographic signatures, and the Sub-DART ledger makes sure that the locked Tagions in the  Main DART ends up in the right place, once transactions happen through it.

Luckily, the above is invisible to the end-user. The user experience will be that you, through your wallet or other software, request to make a payment or transfer of Tagions to another, and then this happens within a few seconds.

This is - btw - also the same pattern that is used for our DEX (decentralized exchange).

There is not a function that allows for sharing a high transaction workload with other Shards. As the above explains, it will take a transaction out of the Sub-DART, to move Tagions. And then, why not just use the transaction to finalize what needs to be done?

Another thing is that it would be a very positive situation, if we have a "Sub-DART tx overload" situation, as each Sub-DART will be capable of handling thousands of transactions per second and have a transaction fully processed within a few seconds.
We are looking very much forward to test exactly how many thousands of transactions shortly, as we've made quite some updates to the protocols. Our simulations will take place on the Alpha network, and we're hoping to hit only easy solvable bottlenecks - but let's see

Tagion FAQ #5


What is a shard?

A database shard is a horizontal partition of data in a database or search engine. Each individual partition is referred to as a shard or database shard. Each shard is held on a separate file system to spread the load.
Tagion’s database, DART, supports sharding on a single DART where the DART is divided between nodes in the network. This means that only a fraction of the data is stored in a node’s local file system.
One of the examples is having a sub-DART for a video game, so that in-game transactions don’t stall the main network - and ensures the data as it is only the owner of the data that can modify or erase it. This is not the case for a torrent file system.

Some data within a database remains present in all shards, but some appear only in a single shard. Each shard (or server) acts as the single source for this subset of data. A node always has a copy of the data to secure data in case a node is lost. It also improves the load speed because you can load data from several nodes at once. It also reduces distributed denial-of-service (DDoS).

FAQ post:https://forum.tagion.org/t/tagion-faq/81/7 and join our Telegram Chat: https://t.me/tagionChat


Yikes!

Phew:



But, but:


Now I'm scared.

IL pop density 230 people per sq mile, 7433 cases/mil
FL pop density 334 people per sq mile, 2123 cases/mil
Therefore, population density does not seem to be a cause at least in this pairwise comparison.
Also, I would imagine that Los Angeles or San Fran has an exact same pop density to NYC with much less cases in Los Angeles and San Fran.

BTW, btc is not correlating with the stock market today, with stocks being silly again.

Stock Market is on the brink of another 30-50% leg down...

Imagine what will happen if #Bitcoin  gains 20-30% in the same period

Imagine the institutional FOMO...
https://twitter.com/ivanontech/status/1262096421391683586?s=21

That indeed would be sweet