An interesting development project. I'll be watching for sure since I also develop in c#, although like an earlier person said, kind of done with ico's at the moment. I think between lisk, waves, ether, the dao, and rise everyone is trying to find the next big thing. I'm not a big believer in private blockchains though, goes against the ethos of bitcoin, but still an interesting project. Good luck with it
Hi Cloverme,
Private chains have many use cases for businesses, custom requirements, functionality not available in bitcoin or isolation and privacy. I understand your point, but projects like Stratis are required to reduce the divide between the corporate development world and blockchain tech. The existing Bitcoin Core is developed in c++, most businesses do no not have any C++ developers but will have usually have C# developers.
At this time side chains are not currently available on the Bitcoin mainnet, so we are not simply developing tech thats already available on the Bitcoin blockchain. .
Stratis is going to allow C# devs like yourself to develop blockchain applications completely in C# and .NET. Once we upgrade our full node code base to .NET Core, the Stratis full node will be able to run on Linux, Mac and Windows without any 3rd party emulation such as Mono.
We are the only ICO project that adds any value to the Bitcoin ecosystem, as we are developing a Full Node and development platform for Bitcoin.
We will be actively contributing to the Elements code base (Side chains) and the Bitcoin Core code base.
Also, how can we offer blockchain based services to businesses if we are not 100% sure of the security of our Blockchain? The answer is to use the proven technology and consensus of the most widespread and well known blockchain in existence, Bitcoin.
Any Blockchain tech that diverges away from Bitcoin is bleeding edge and cannot be 100% sure that their Blockchain is secure, until its proven over time.