The concept of Services running on ServiceNodes or Masternodes was pushed by me and others back in early 2014 when MasterNodes were first introduced in Dash as a means to provide anon transactions.
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Mining - SPR has one of the most decentralized mining algos with a unique approach that encourages solo mining - white paper
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Blockchain data mining - SPR has written a detailed Whitepaper about generating revenues for Bitcoin nodes by harnessing Bitcoin and other blockchains data. Data intelligence tools can be used by third parties to generate data dashboards via SPRs proposed blockchain data market - details
hereServiceNodes will be paid to operate services and as services generate revenues, these will be distributed around the network. This overview of payments gives an indication of how much serviceNode operators can expect to earn, details
here and monthly estimations
hereThe services that the SPR community is looking to develop are:
Short-term* Decentralised explorer for any coin - more details
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here* Big Bitcoin Data - more details
here Mid-term* Automated Escrow (CLTV and the new zero knowledge verification)
* Decentralised Exchange - more details
here* Instant Bitcoin Transactions (if we can figure out the decentralized exchange and instant locking via ServiceNodes) - details
here Long-term* Decentralised search engine - some info
here* Decentralised Coinbase type accounts - subject to regulatory compliance, more details
herehttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1045373.msg11262662#msg11262662The SPR community is also one of the key teams behind the Blockchain series of events that are aimed at raising funds as incentives for Bitcoin full nodes
http://blockchain2020.com/block-420000/blockchain-2016/