[ANN] IPO of MaidSafe: Entering the Future of the Decentralized Internet

[zeeman]

Safenet is getting close. Here's the latest Dev-update:

MaidSafe Dev Update 27 October 2015

Great to see that 10% of the tasks from this sprint where done by community members, even though Rust is quite a new programming language.



System Dashboard JIRA Sprint RUST-5

[fartbags]

Better get your coin off masterXchange. I'm not sure what happens on Nov. 15th. I would hope they email you the private keys to your coins but you never know. many exchanges just keep the coins after they disappear.

You just need to withdraw your coin, no private key will be given..

Are you from masterXchange? You will probably have to get users their coins. Are you from the USA? You might go to jail if you keep the coins.

What happens to the people who aren't paying attention or on a 2 month volunteer project helping starving children in Africa?

[BadAss.Sx]

It would be better if someone from MAID could give us some light about the whole masterxchange thingy.

[zeeman]

It would be better if someone from MAID could give us some light about the whole masterxchange thingy.

It's on the frontpage of the forum. Here's the message:



Here's the Masterexchange website with the message:

https://masterxchange.com/

You can store your coins locally in your Bitcoin-wallet or at Poloniex or at

https://www.omniwallet.org/

Omni should be safe because your login and pass never leave your computer. But don't take my word for that.

Here's the info to cold storage and more options:

https://safenetwork.wiki/en/FAQ#Safecoins


Hope that helps

[mishax1]

Better get your coin off masterXchange. I'm not sure what happens on Nov. 15th. I would hope they email you the private keys to your coins but you never know. many exchanges just keep the coins after they disappear.

You just need to withdraw your coin, no private key will be given..

Are you from masterXchange? You will probably have to get users their coins. Are you from the USA? You might go to jail if you keep the coins.

What happens to the people who aren't paying attention or on a 2 month volunteer project helping starving children in Africa?

He sent you an email telling the exchange is closing, seems fair to me. I don't believe he will be keeping users coins..

[ShapeShift.io]

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[niner]

Did anyone else get email from masterXchange?  I sure didn't.  I did get email from the Safe Network around 18-Oct warning that masterXchange was closing but nothing from masterXchange.

Better get your coin off masterXchange. I'm not sure what happens on Nov. 15th. I would hope they email you the private keys to your coins but you never know. many exchanges just keep the coins after they disappear.

You just need to withdraw your coin, no private key will be given..

Are you from masterXchange? You will probably have to get users their coins. Are you from the USA? You might go to jail if you keep the coins.

What happens to the people who aren't paying attention or on a 2 month volunteer project helping starving children in Africa?

He sent you an email telling the exchange is closing, seems fair to me. I don't believe he will be keeping users coins..

[prophetx]

Safenet is getting close. Here's the latest Dev-update:

MaidSafe Dev Update 27 October 2015

Great to see that 10% of the tasks from this sprint where done by community members, even though Rust is quite a new programming language.



System Dashboard JIRA Sprint RUST-5

good idea to post pic +1

[zeeman]

Here's the latest Dev-Update:

As for the recent sprint which has just finished, we unfortunately didn’t achieve all our objectives. There are more specific details about the individual targets below, but there was success for the Client libraries, the QA tasks and the Vault bugs. Crust and Routing which fell short did however make decent progress during the sprint, with unforeseen issues causing the bulk of the delays.

SAFE Launcher, a gateway for the apps to communicate with the SAFE Network on behalf of the user, is now ready as a library. This is great news for app devs as it abstracts the working knowledge of the SAFE Network entirely from them. All the app devs are required to do is to go through and make use of the very friendly JSON IPC documentation in the RFC repository3. Apps can be written in any language and as long as they adhere to a simple authentication mechanism, they can talk to Launcher using JSON requests and leave it to Launcher to carry out the actual tasks.

MaidSafe Dev Update 3rd November 2015

If you want a quick overview on how Safenet actually works, this is a 5 min read:

Safenet in 5 minutes

Here's a presentation for RustCamp 2015 where Paige explains why Maidsafe moved from C++ to the Rust program language:

RustCamp 2015 - Evolving the Internet Using Rust

The JIRA overview is at 94% but most activity is under the radar right now happening on GitHub/maidsafe



Be welcome at the safenetwork forum for more info & discussion.

 

[freedomno1]

Thanks for posting the newest update here zeeman
Looking at it I'm glad to see that the maidsafe team is still progressing forward at a steady pace even if a few objectives take a little while longer.
Keep up the progress

[bitcoinrocks]

Recent history aside, should we expect the MAID price to be coupled to BTC or USD long-term?  Perhaps the answer is USD since it wouldn't make sense for PUTting data on the network to become 10x more expensive when the BTC price increases 10x, right?  That would mean we can expect the MAID/BTC price to decrease whenever the BTC/USD price increases.

[zeeman]

Recent history aside, should we expect the MAID price to be coupled to BTC or USD long-term?  Perhaps the answer is USD since it wouldn't make sense for PUTting data on the network to become 10x more expensive when the BTC price increases 10x, right?  That would mean we can expect the MAID/BTC price to decrease whenever the BTC/USD price increases.

There are different mechanisms in SAFE that affect the price (in Safecoin) to PUT (upload) data to the network. Doing GET's (downloads) will be free. It also depends if you PUT mutable or immutable data to the network, these prices are different as well. But to make a long story short, when a lot of people supply resources (like free space) to the network, the Farming Reward will go down. So the amount of Safecoin you can "Farm" will go down when you deliver chunks from your Vault to the network. On the other hand, when resources get low, the FR will go up, so more Safecoin when you deliver chunks to the network.

Here's the RFC as it is today, it might be changed a bit before implementation

So what I expect is that a lot of people will run Vaults in the hope to Farm Safecoin. This will make the price to PUT data to the network way lower. Maybe even lower than cost price (bandwidth, discspace etc.) in the beginning. For Maidsafecoin I always look at the USD price. 

[zeeman]

Here's the latest Dev-Update:

MaidSafe Dev Update 10th November 2015

No chart to post this time, most of the debugging etc. is done on GitHub/Maidsafe.

[zeeman]

Here's the latest Dev-Update:

MaidSafe Dev Update 16th November 2015

BUGS!!! I should just end the update here, as bugs are challenging the team, both software bugs and health related bugs. For most of the already depleted team (bloody bugs) time is being spent identifying and squashing Routing bugs as well as improving error handling to make these less likely and easier to resolve in the future. This is not the kind of Dev Update we like to deliver, nor the type you probably want to read, however it is what has been happening in the last week. So we all have to open wide and take our medicine….

75% of the Engineers are working in Routing, identifying issues and creating a roadmap to get to a successful implementation. These issues are taking longer to resolve than previous bugs as between RUST-3 and RUST-5 some code has been uncovered that will not allow for a stable network to be implemented and this is currently being addressed. The work is happening in a branch called cleanup27 for those interested in closely following progress......

The launch of the network is taking some extra time due to some bugs. For those of you who want to join from the moment it get's live, here's a great opportunity. Some members on the forum are
creating a "Webring" full of websites to get live when the moment's there. The steps are quite easy even for those without that many knowledge of .html and building websites. the idea is as follows:

- Once Safenet is launched, you'll be able to create an account for free using a username, password etc.
- You should also be able to register a URL (decentralised) in the network. Using a plugin for Firefox you can surf these safesites typing safe:website in your browser.
- A tool will be provided to upload your website to the network. The software will use self_encryption and some encryption magic to get your site live on Safenet.
- The POC for this was shown before when people tested a local Safenetwork and uploaded their sites.

The launch of Safenet is getting closer and closer so it would be great if we could have a lot of safesites online when it goes live.    



Look at this topic if you want to register a URL and upload your own website once the network goes live. We already have over 20 users with websites ready to go.


Let’s Create The First SAFE Web!


The ants are coming after they've kicked out the bugs  

 

[bitcoinrocks]

Once the network is live, how will people know which websites are online?

[zeeman]

Once the network is live, how will people know which websites are online?

Once uploaded, a website will always be online. Until the uploader takes it off. The website is online on different nodes in the form of chunks. When 1 node with chunks goes offline, another
one will take over. So when you request safe:youwebsite it's always there.

But that's probably not what you meant For the rest it's just like the normal internet. Without a searchengine you'll need to know the address of the website or use a webring like the one above.
In the beginning it will probably be things like webrings. Just the good old internet again, but in a decentralised P2P way.

 

[bitcoinrocks]

Has there been any discussion of creating a search engine or something similar?

[zeeman]

Has there been any discussion of creating a search engine or something similar?

Yup, I remember it was on some topics on the forum. I heard some folks on slack talk about it as well.

[Jocuserious]

Just an FYI...someone is setting up something scammy.

Post is about a month old but still relevant to mention I think.  Be careful.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=582598.msg12778146#msg12778146

[zeeman]

Here's the latest Dev-Update:

MaidSafe Dev Update 23rd November 2015

Follow the proces on GitHub/Maidsafe.


Don't get fooled by SafeCoin - The Real Safecoin. May Launch This has nothing to do with Maidsafe or Maidsafecoin.
The best place for information is the real Safenetwork Forum. It's run by volunteers from the community and paid for by Maidsafe. Here's the address:

SAFE Network Forum

The Troon office feels fully operational again this week as people return from being ill, holidays and visit from the other side of the planet. Decent progress is being made on the Routing bugs as outlined in last week's Dev Update1 and progress can still be tracked via commits in the cleanup branch of Routing3. As soon as we have eliminated the bugs and have a functioning Routing example again, I am sure the core guys that have been living and breathing the Routing cleanup, will want to shout this from the nearest mountain top5, or alternatively and a lot easier just update everyone here on the forum. While this Routing debugging work continues not everything has ground to a complete halt in the other libraries or elsewhere in MaidSafe.

So in Crust work continues on a couple of fronts, one of these is the Crust speedup RFC1. When the Crust maintainers are happy with this RFC PR, it shall be moved into ‘Proposed’ and implementation JIRA tasks raised, once these are complete this RFC will be ‘Active’. The work on this RFC shall happen in a new Git branch, so as not to hinder the Routing progress, nor the RUST-5 deliverables in any way. In parallel to this, work is on-going with RUST-UTP and the Devs are collaborating with the owners of that crate to get a UTP connect function rock solid (and always passing tests) from a Crust perspective. The guys have done a great job tracing an issue we originally believed existed in Crust and hunted down the problem to RUST-UTP and are now cooperating with the authors to resolve this.

Heading up the stack; progress continues preparing for the resolution of the Routing implementation issues. Last week the client guys worked on the Firefox addon feasibility, to eradicate the FFI binding that was previously used and to switch to the Firefox XPCOM components to connect with the launcher. Also work to expose an API to the DOM layer so that the API could allow dynamic applications to be built begun, however these are just the initial steps of proof of concept (POC) to showcase the feasibility.

To make the above POC integrated with the actual addon, we are working on an RFC to allow authenticated access from the addon. Also a few DNS APIs must be exposed from the launcher side to enable the serving of content from the addon, thus an RFC is being worked on to outline what is required.

There was a request on another forum thread3 to expose the API from launcher to allow managing StructuredData and Immutable data. A RFC is pending1 in regards to this request. Another RFC in the pipeline from the client guys is a slight design change, currently public functions exposed from the safe_nfs crate are blocking calls. The Devs believe it would be better to change them to a non-blocking implementation. So a bunch of RFCs and PRs flowing from the guys, in order to make life easier for SAFE App developers.

The website has seen a significant overhaul with the design and implementation guys working hard to provide a rich, fresh and informative end user orientated site. All of the design tasks are now complete; with the final tweaks being implemented and internally reviewed this week. This is the first of two new planned websites, the other being aimed at developers.

As the end user portion of the site stands, there are now four main pages. These main pages are: Features, Safecoin, Company and FAQs.

Features outlines some of the key features of the SAFE network to new and novice users. It gets them up to speed on some of the main problems with existing internet infrastructure and provides an introduction to some of our solutions.

The Safecoin page shares a lot of the goals with features and since safecoin is such an important part of the SAFE network, it needed it's own page. The goal here is not to give advanced users in-depth knowledge of the implementation, but to simply be enough to peek an interest in new novice users and direct them where to find out more.

Company page does pretty much what you would expect and provides an outline of our goals and motivations as a company, as well as including a careers section and the dreaded staff images, you have been warned :smile:

FAQs has been changed from what was originally conceived as a hub for support. It has now been scaled back to an FAQ page and as a place to channel interested users to the community forum and media wiki sites to gain more information. One of the reasons for scaling this back is that kicking off later this week will be a project to seriously tackle Documentation or our lack thereof. We understand that useful, up-to-date documentation is lacking and has been an area we have neglected for way too long. So a new team is being created to tackle this, areas they plan to cover include: Libraries (core and app help); Apps (illustrations, tutorials, etc); API (scope of the launcher and what it provides for Apps); Blogs (for example a series presenting each core library by the maintainers themselves is one idea); Samples and finally Tutorials. So hopefully more news to follow on this after the team meets for the first time this week.

So still moving steadily in the right direction, no TADA! :tada: just yet, just stay on the lookout for sleep deprived developers rushing toward the summit of a Scottish mountain.