[ANN]Arweave (Techstars 2018): A new internet in a very scalable blockchain

[hugasinora]

This project have a good specification, I see the development of this thread a few days ahead, of course with a lot of information, I'm interested, hopefully run as planned, good luck

[scambust]

Bounties
Translation
Here at archain, we believe that the pursuit of human knowledge is global.
We welcome you to offer your translation services in exchange for a portion
of our currency. We hope to expand our bounty campaign as our campaigns develops.
Social Media
Providing a means to expand our social platform can help garner portions of the Archain currency.


We apologise for the lack of images or bright colourful displays. We're not allowed to post those without 30 activity and we shall update this post as soon as that occurs.

Sad. No signature bounty campaign yet. It really does help awareness among crypto enthusiasts. I think you should start one right now.

[Archain.org]

Sad. No signature bounty campaign yet. It really does help awareness among crypto enthusiasts. I think you should start one right now.

Thanks for your interest in Archain bounties!

Signature bounties will be available soon. We are just finalising the structure and delivery of our bounty programme and will PM you personally when it has launched.

[Archain.org]

The Archain pre-sale now supports direct Bitcoin payments, for those that were enquiring.

Thanks,
Team Archain

[mgao6767]

I really love the idea of Archain. But why do you guys choose Erlang as the programming language? For scalability only? Honestly it isn't really friendly.... Beyond this, I'm gonna support Archain anyway.

[Archain.org]

Hi mgao6767!

Thanks for your support of Archain.

The core of the Archain system is written in Erlang (for the scalability reasons you mention), but we plan to build an 'Archain App Bridge' in the future, allowing the use of other languages.

At the moment we are considering adding support for Java and Python, but we are open to suggestions. Which languages were you particuarly interested in writing Archain apps in?

Thanks,
Sam
Archain CEO

[mgao6767]

Hi mgao6767!

Thanks for your support of Archain.

The core of the Archain system is written in Erlang (for the scalability reasons you mention), but we plan to build an 'Archain App Bridge' in the future, allowing the use of other languages.

At the moment we are considering adding support for Java and Python, but we are open to suggestions. Which languages were you particuarly interested in writing Archain apps in?

Thanks,
Sam
Archain CEO

I use Python a lot, so Python!

[Archain.org]

Hi mgao6767,

Excellent! Python support is high on our priorities list.

Thanks,
Archain Team

[FredDag]

Great to see someone finally tackling this concept; It's something I have been thinking about for a while.

Having read through the whitepaper, I have a few questions...

• How will the submitted file size affect the cost to submit the URL ?
• Do you have any plans to limit the daily  block data size ?
• What controls do you plan to prevent viruses & malware being added to the library ?
• How do you plan to handle Javascript webpages which load content after the HTML has loaded ?
• How would submitting videos be handled ? YouTube webpages (for example) might be updating frequently due to likes, views etc. So a plain video submit may be preferable.
• Have you considered including an incentivised Content Approver role ? This could be used to check unverified submissions for bad content (porn,hate etc) before being flagged for inclusion by miners.

[Archain.org]

Hi FredDag,

Thanks for your questions and interest in Archain!

First, the cost of storing a document will be proportionate to the size of that document -- for both 'verified' web pages and 'unverified' files. We do not envisage a daily block size limit.

Support for webpages that load their main content through Javascript is still under review at the moment. These pages (after their contents is loaded) could always be archived in their 'unverified' form, but may not be verifiable (with all their content loaded) when the network first launches. This is something we will look at in the first few major updates to the Archain web-scaper post-launch. One of the methods we are exploring is similar to the way Google partially evaluates some Javascript in order to make dynamic sites indexable.

Videos are a difficult area for Archain, owing to their size. While it will always be possible to upload unverified videos to the network, this will likely prove prohibitively expensive for most situations (given the permanent nature of Archain storage). Instead, however, we aim to support replacing videos in webpages with hashes of videos, in a similar way to the method described for images and other multimedia objects in the whitepaper. This will allow users to 're-unite' videos that have been stored off the chain, with the web pages that have been stored on it. In this way, as long as the video is stored somewhere that it is accessible later, it can be proved to have belonged to the archived web page, at the time of archiving, after the fact (for only the cost of storing the hash itself).

We have not considered a 'Content Approver' role, as this could potentially lead to systemic censorship. Data getting onto the weave, however, is dependent on being accepted by the miners. The system has been designed in such a way that if the community decided to, they could build their own 'content approval' nodes, which miners could choose to consult before accepting transactions. These could simply be typical Archain Developer Toolkit apps (discussed on the website and in the whitepaper).

Finally, we have an experimental anti-virus system (built atop SamAV, utilising ClamAV malware definitions) that can be optionally used to scan incoming transactions for dubious contents. Please note that this feature is 'experimental' at this stage and may not make it into the first release (hence its absence from the whitepaper).

I hope this is helpful. Please don't hesitate to let us know if you have any further comments or questions.

Thanks,
Archain Team

[bambarmia]

This project is very interesting. Something new. Everybody is tired of all this so called "new altcoins" and new "assets" created by scam artists. I wish you good luck ! 

[N-gen]

this one I wanna join for invesment on ICO its looks like this one is promising project

[bambarmia]

this one I wanna join for invesment on ICO its looks like this one is promising project

I will join them too, but only after they will rich the exchanges. The price will be lower at the beginning compere to ICO. 

[Archain.org]

Thanks both for your comments. We look forward to working with you as things progressive.

Team Archain.

[benedictonathan]

I would like to reserve translating this great project of yours to the International language Esperanto for the benefit of the Esperanto Community.

My previous work:
REBI Network - https://bitcoingarden.org/forum/index.php?topic=17022.msg178769#msg178769

I would hope you will give me this chance for the benefit of the community.

[Archain.org]

Hi benedictonathan,

Thanks for the offer! We will be in touch at the appropriate time.

Thanks,
Team Archain

[mgao6767]

Be more active on the GitHub :-) I'm watching closely XD

[Archain.org]

Hi mgao,

We are used to working on our private mercurial repository. Apologies for the slower pace of change on our public github -- we will get it up-to-date shortly.

Thanks,
Sam
Archain Team.

[mgao6767]

Hi mgao,

We are used to working on our private mercurial repository. Apologies for the slower pace of change on our public github -- we will get it up-to-date shortly.

Thanks,
Sam
Archain Team.

Thanks for the update Sam! It's just that updating GitHub gives people more confidence in this awesome project!

[adarwis]

I think this project has a very unique idea, turning history into something more valuable, it must get appreciation, this project will make all the forgotten will be remembered, I'm really interested in this project, but unfortunately, there is no bounty , I hope you guys will hold it later, hopefully run well, I will keep my eyes in this thread the next few days, good luck dev