[ANN][ZOOZ] La’Zooz: Decentralized Collaborative Transportation Web

[ilanForSharing]

Most of luck to this initiative

I really hope we can adopt this system into our transportation systems.
it will make a great difference.

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[filippounits]

waiting for the iOS and win phone mining app

This is a killer app for decentralized transportation

[-Greed-]

The presale starts in 7 days: http://lazooz.org/

[ekatchka]

Dear La'Zooz community & friends,

In the winter of 2013 the passion to create a Realtime Social Ride-sharing service caught fire in our hearts. Since then we have been working day and night to build the infrastructure and models that will enable La'Zooz to become a reality.

With over 70 contributors to the La'Zooz project, and with nearly 2000 beta users already creating their own local transportation networks around the globe, we feel it is the right time to move onto the next step.

We are excited to announce that the first La'Zooz token sale/crowd-funding round
is launching in just 6 days (1st of June) and we ask you to take part and help spread the news.

The core value and essence of La'Zooz is in the community and we have been doing all we can to grow our numbers, keeping the door open to whoever wishes to join in. We believe that now is the time to show that this community can make the difference between a good social campaign and a GREAT one before the sale starts.

How can you help?

With just three simple steps:

• Enter our headtalker campaign page https://headtalker.com/campaigns/real-time-social-ridesharing/.
• Choose one or more social networks you wish to spread the news through (FB, Twitter, Tumbler) - better the one where you are most active.
• Share with your friends by email, FB, Twitter and Tumbler and ask them to support the La'Zooz Headtalker campaign also.
  

So What happens?

Two days after the opening day of the crowd funding campaign the same post will be published simultaneously on the wall of all the campaign supporters letting everyone knows the sale has started. This will make a huge impact on the social networks algorithms and amplify the reach of the token sale campaign.

What's Next?

As La'Zooz targets mainstream users and backers the Zooz token sale will offer two gateways -

• PayPal and Credit Cards gateway through our Indigogo campaign.
• BTC gateway through the La'Zooz unique bitcoin interface for you BTC lovers.

We will send more info regarding the crowd-funding and token sale itself in the coming days before the sale
and we would love to get your help boosting it by being our first supporters 


In the mean while join the ride - spread the news!



The La'Zooz Core Team

lazooz.org

Twitter - @lazoozorg https://twitter.com/lazoozorg

facebook - https://www.facebook.com/lazooz.org

[slashbinslashnoname]

Before buying some zooz to support you, because your project is cool, will you be implemented in Ethereum ?

[Shay Zluf]

Before buying some zooz to support you, because your project is cool, will you be implemented in Ethereum ?

We are planing to put a token stabilazation mechanism on our last milestone after the token sale.
This mechanism will be implemented using ethereum as the other option (doing it using bitcoin 2.0) has security implications (centralized fund).

[ekatchka]

Zooz token sale first glimpse

Sale will start in less than 48 hours (Monday, 1st of June 2015, 18:00 GMT)

https://i.imgur.com/seIWoik.jpg
    A glimpse into the Zooz token sale BTC web interface. Numbers are for demonstration purpose only.


During the 30 day token sale, La’zooz community offers to sell zooz tokens at a discount from the reference price.

Early purchasers will enjoy a larger discount.
The price of the zooz tokens increases every 24 hours by one step (see Fig. 1 for the zooz price as a function of the number of steps taken).

Furthermore, if at a certain day the amount of tokens that were purchased exceeded the amount of the previous day, the zooz price increases by one step. Hence, the zooz token price increases during the sale with time and with demand.

Examples:

• If during the sale not a single day exceeds the sales of the previous day - there will be only 30 steps, closing the sale with a rate of about 1z=0.008$.
• If the sale is very successful and on each day the sales exceeds those of the previous day, each day the price will rise in 2 steps, getting to the reference price on the 23rd day, leaving the sale on a stable price for the last 7 days.
  

https://i.imgur.com/1boPzn7.jpg
 
  Figure 1: The zooz price as a function of the number of steps taken.

All bitcoins that will be used to purchase zooz tokens during the sale will go to a multi-sig coinbase vault where 2 out of 3 signers are needed in order to release funds.

Auditors and multi-sig signers will be published shortly among other details... stay tuned!

[Hoganye]

How many total coins are there?

[ekatchka]

How many total coins are there?

From La'Zooz white paper draft to be published tomorrow:
Since the La'Zooz community intends to create a token that will be used for transportation needs on a daily basis, our final aim is to create a token with minimal change in price so users will be using the token instead of holding to it. To do this, we will implement at a later stage a stabilizing mechanism using one of several options already being under development.
Two options the La’Zooz community is exploring these days -

• Vitalik Buterin proposal from the Ethereum blog https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/11/11/search-stable-cryptocurrency/
• The half pegging mechanism developed by La’Zooz community that will be published soon.

In short, the future protocol aims to create a situation that the zooz token has a stable price while early contributors (such as the token sale purchasers, and early developers) are rewarded by the fact that the amount of zooz tokens in their wallet increases.

Unlike other crypto tokens, the amount of Zooz tokens is not capped nor fixed and more tokens will be issued in later times upon demand of users, needing more tokens for their rides.

At this stage the details of the future protocol are still a work in progress. Furthermore, we believe that the future protocol will be ideal to use when the community will grow significantly and reach closer to the critical mass of users needed for the service to run.
At present time, as the community is still rather small, we use a transitional protocol which we believe is more suitable for this early stage in a way it is supporting the needs of development the community is facing at this stage.

More info about this protocol will be published tomorrow...

[gdavis024]

From La'Zooz white paper draft to be published tomorrow:
Since the La'Zooz community intends to create a token that will be used for transportation needs on a daily basis, our final aim is to create a token with minimal change in price so users will be using the token instead of holding to it. To do this, we will implement at a later stage a stabilizing mechanism using one of several options already being under development.
Two options the La’Zooz community is exploring these days -

• Vitalik Buterin proposal from the Ethereum blog https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/11/11/search-stable-cryptocurrency/
• The half pegging mechanism developed by La’Zooz community that will be published soon.

In short, the future protocol aims to create a situation that the zooz token has a stable price while early contributors (such as the token sale purchasers, and early developers) are rewarded by the fact that the amount of zooz tokens in their wallet increases.

Unlike other crypto tokens, the amount of Zooz tokens is not capped nor fixed and more tokens will be issued in later times upon demand of users, needing more tokens for their rides.

At this stage the details of the future protocol are still a work in progress. Furthermore, we believe that the future protocol will be ideal to use when the community will grow significantly and reach closer to the critical mass of users needed for the service to run.
At present time, as the community is still rather small, we use a transitional protocol which we believe is more suitable for this early stage in a way it is supporting the needs of development the community is facing at this stage.

More info about this protocol will be published tomorrow...

Is it at all related to this?

Quicksilver Community:

Over the past month I have been in discussions with the team at La’Zooz regarding potential opportunities for collaboration between La’Zooz and Quicksilver. They share a common vision with us, on revolutionizing the transportation industry through the power of decentralization and the blockchain.

We held a very productive conference call with their team earlier this week, and I am excited about what the future holds for Quicksilver, La’Zooz, and the very way in which society views transportation.
The Quicksilver team will be working with La’Zooz in the coming weeks, as we collaborate to move all of us one step closer to achieving our common goal. This goal is a lofty one, and working alongside like-minded individuals and projects is an important step on the road to success.

As both projects continue to move forward, please take this opportunity to learn more about our friends at La’Zooz, their innovative ideas about ride sharing, and their upcoming crowd sale. You can learn more about the La’Zooz project at Lazooz.org!

Thank you for your support over these past months, and I look forward to your continued support as we create a new chapter for the smart transportation industry.

[ekatchka]

Is it at all related to this?

Quicksilver Community:

Over the past month I have been in discussions with the team at La’Zooz regarding potential opportunities for collaboration between La’Zooz and Quicksilver. They share a common vision with us, on revolutionizing the transportation industry through the power of decentralization and the blockchain.

We held a very productive conference call with their team earlier this week, and I am excited about what the future holds for Quicksilver, La’Zooz, and the very way in which society views transportation.
The Quicksilver team will be working with La’Zooz in the coming weeks, as we collaborate to move all of us one step closer to achieving our common goal. This goal is a lofty one, and working alongside like-minded individuals and projects is an important step on the road to success.

As both projects continue to move forward, please take this opportunity to learn more about our friends at La’Zooz, their innovative ideas about ride sharing, and their upcoming crowd sale. You can learn more about the La’Zooz project at Lazooz.org!

Thank you for your support over these past months, and I look forward to your continued support as we create a new chapter for the smart transportation industry.

There was a trial a few months back to join forces with the Quicksilver team, and though this door is still open on the La'Zooz community side, not much was done in this direction since then.
I still hope that the team and supporters of Quicksilver will gather to transform transportation as we know it with the help of the blockchain...

[ekatchka]

La'Zooz White Paper is out.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8DXTngEHOSmN2ZzTDJBTHppc1E/edit

Welcome to read and share your comments, suggestions and feedback.

Zooz tokens sale will be opened today in less than 8 hours - 18:00 GMT.

Help us spread the news through your social media channels by supporting our campaign.
https://headtalker.com/campaigns/real-time-social-ridesharing/

A huge THANK YOU to all La'Zooz community members out there that are making this happen!

[karmazaki]

good luck and big success in the crowdsale!!!

[ekatchka]

We are happy to announce that Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, will be acting as La'Zooz's road-map auditor, alongside with Craig Sellars from Omni Foundation.

The road-map determines the milestones according to which funds, being raised during the token sale, will be released from the multi-sig vault into the Dev team account.

The coinbase vault needs 3 out of 5 signatures to release funds - 2 keys are held by La'Zooz members, 2 keys by Omni leading members, and 1 by Ethereum member (not Vitalik).

This way supporters of the project can be sure that their funds will be used according to a well kept auditing procedure.
As the Zooz token price function was engineered to remain low as long as no big traction was achieved - the token's price is still very close to the initial rate it was sold at the opening of the sale - 10 days ago. That makes it still a good opportunity for the project's supporters to help make this vision come alive.

http://cointelegraph.com/news/114525/vitalik-buterin-to-audit-lazooz-decentralized-ridesharing-project

More news regarding the road-map to be published soon...

Join the ride...

[ekatchka]

La'Zooz Community hangout is here!

Tomorrow, Monday 15.6 7pm GMT.

Your place to ask the core contributors to the project anything you have in mind regarding the project and the token sale.
This is the link to La'Zooz youtube channel, where the hangout will take place.
You can submit your questions in advance or during the hangout through the chat (if time permits).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPnERbAMog4

[freequant]

"Proof-of-Movement" is a marketing stunt. The methods LaZooz described in this thread are not sufficient to prove anything and offer a vast potential to be spoofed and abused in all the ways something can possibly be spoofed and abused.

A smart phone environment can be easily simulated with a Android / iOS emulator and all API calls to GPS, WiFi data, contact book or any other data source can be replaced by stub calls that will spoon-feed precomputed data to the application. Regarding cross-checking, it is extremely naive to believe that you will be able to do cross-checking before the network is in the 7 digits or more figure. The sheer size of the global road network makes the probabilities of passing at the same place as another user vanishingly small particularly in rural areas. And even where / when cross-checking becomes feasible, a spoofer can easily setup multiple bots that will corroborate each others data. And if that's not enough, the spoofer can feed the simulation with some actual data from a couple hours of wardriving session that can be used to seed enough matching points to pass the threshold of plausibility. And that's just for the pure spoofing angle. Replay attacks are even more trivial and there is very little LaZooz can do to tell appart a spoofer and someone legimitimately driving the same road everyday if all the data fed to it is legit real-world data. So all a spoofer would need to do is collect data along a couple of realistic trips and then replay the data to LaZooz with some timing variation for the sake of realism.

Proof-of-Movement is a sham. Claim-of-Movement would be a more accurate term.

[Shay Zluf]

"Proof-of-Movement" is a marketing stunt. The methods LaZooz described in this thread are not sufficient to prove anything and offer a vast potential to be spoofed and abused in all the ways something can possibly be spoofed and abused.

A smart phone environment can be easily simulated with a Android / iOS emulator and all API calls to GPS, WiFi data, contact book or any other data source can be replaced by stub calls that will spoon-feed precomputed data to the application. Regarding cross-checking, it is extremely naive to believe that you will be able to do cross-checking before the network is in the 7 digits or more figure. The sheer size of the global road network makes the probabilities of passing at the same place as another user vanishingly small particularly in rural areas. And even where / when cross-checking becomes feasible, a spoofer can easily setup multiple bots that will corroborate each others data. And if that's not enough, the spoofer can feed the simulation with some actual data from a couple hours of wardriving session that can be used to seed enough matching points to pass the threshold of plausibility. And that's just for the pure spoofing angle. Replay attacks are even more trivial and there is very little LaZooz can do to tell appart a spoofer and someone legimitimately driving the same road everyday if all the data fed to it is legit real-world data. So all a spoofer would need to do is collect data along a couple of realistic trips and then replay the data to LaZooz with some timing variation for the sake of realism.

Proof-of-Movement is a sham. Claim-of-Movement would be a more accurate term.

Thank you for mentioning that. At the early days of La`Zooz we thought that we could achieve proof of movement but as we went on this has proved to be a minor part of our vision and therefore your wording suggestion is adequate and we will try to use "claim of movement" on future documents.

Because proof of movement is not the main issue here we have created an application token named Road zooz that will be used internally for paying matching fees to the network but would not be tradable. therefore it will take out the incentive to create bots and will still encourge use of the app by people who want to use the service.

We have also created road mining protocol to incentivize the creation of networks of users and not just driving with the app https://docs.google.com/document/d/1un5ezOfKjbqp1eBpRtyEcT0aqjYqnZFVccvvhx3y2sw/edit#bookmark=id.wvpzlsyfr1kk

[-Greed-]

Well, the destribution is over. Are we going to hit an exchange?

[ekatchka]

Well, the destribution is over. Are we going to hit an exchange?

Yes!
We are currently in touch with Masterxchange and Holytransaction. Hope to have several more soon.
Hopefully by the end of July.

If anyone here would like to make the connection with more exchanges that will be interested to trade Zooz tokens - please make an intro by email to info@lazooz.org.

Thanks

[mishax1]

Well, the destribution is over. Are we going to hit an exchange?

Yes!
We are currently in touch with Masterxchange and Holytransaction. Hope to have several more soon.
Hopefully by the end of July.

If anyone here would like to make the connection with more exchanges that will be interested to trade Zooz tokens - please make an intro by email to info@lazooz.org.

Thanks

I would recommend contacting Poloniex, they seem to be pretty friendly to Omni assets traded on their exchange.

https://poloniex.com/coinRequest