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Launching Pad is set for MaidSafe and safecoin April 22nd, 2014 Noon GMT
Written by Donna Hancock Subject: Bitcoin
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What is MaidSafe?
Self Authentication allows everyone to be in complete control of all data, beyond encryption to include physical access. In essence, nobody knows where any data is located, thereby providing completely private and unilateral access by individuals. As all communications and data at rest are also encrypted, nobody can tell who is using the system, what they are doing or where they are.
SecurityEnd to end encrypted data transfer and communications with encryption injected above layer 3, thereby evading 'man in the middle attacks'. Data at rest encryption, beyond today's highest levels of military grade algorithms on an open source platform that stores no passwords or representations of passwords.
FreedomHow would you like to create the next Dropbox, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Candy Crush, or secure email service?
The MaidSafe platform offers every developer the opportunity to create applications without any infrastructure costs and without any barrier to entry. Experience customer acquisition costs that are limited to just marketing and 1% of your revenue, only payable once your app starts to generate income.App Development Platform
This is the MaidSafe Library stack, it shows how each of the libraries tie in to enable applications to build and run successfully (click on chart below for App Development Platform interaction):
We like to think of MaidSafe as a frictionless decentralized development platform
How would you like to create the next Dropbox, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Candy Crush, or secure email service?
The MaidSafe platform offers every developer the opportunity to create applications without any infrastructure costs and without any barrier to entry. Experience customer acquisition costs that are just limited to marketing and 1% of your revenue, only payable once your app starts to generate income.
Build your next business on a network that will enable you to outperform all incumbents, that can automatically adapt in real-time to demand fluctuations, which also allows you to offer anonymity, security and privacy to all your users.
The MaidSafe network API is being finalised now, join us and decide on your venture, we will help make your vision a reality.
Reasons for developing on the MaidSafe platform:
*Get your apps everywhere*No risk - you only start to make a minimal payment (1% of revenue) as your app starts to earn revenue, not before!*No API key - just download our code and start using it*Extremely low customer acquisition costs and no infrastructure costs*Apps that adapt in real-time to changes in demand*Provide security, privacy and anonymity to all your users
The SAFE network takes all the Internet services currently available today and decentralizes them, removing servers and other central points of weakness enabling privacy, security and anonymity to all Internet users for the first time.
It is also possible to buy safecoin and buyers anywhere in the world will be given the opportunity to do so during an up and coming crowd-sale. The sale event will run until ten percent of all safecoins (429,496,729) are sold or 30 days have passed, which ever happens first. safecoin will be made available to buyers through a proxy token, MaidSafeCoin. Once the MaidSafe network goes live, the MaidSafeCoins will be redeemable for the network’s native safecoins at a 1-to-1 ratio.
OR).In many crypto currencies and decentralized networks a proof of something is required to allow the network to validate actions or services via a mathematically verifiable mechanism. Within the SAFE network, nodes (users computers) are validated in a very efficient, accurate and cryptographically secure manner. End users can earn safecoin by contributing resources to the network, we call these resource providers ‘farmers’. Farmers provide these resources by running a vault (a node on the network) which handles requests and stores data for other users. There is no set up required to turn your computer into a vault, it is just a simple software download.
The resources in question are storage, CPU, online time and bandwidth. The SAFE network is able to constantly measure and immediately verify these resources, this is called Proof of Resource (POR). This POR facilitates the exchange of storage space on the SAFE network. To earn safecoin, farmers must provide more resources than they are using and the amount of safecoin they earn directly relates to the amount of resource they are providing. There are no humans involved in this process and the network stores data randomly across all nodes, similar to a lottery. The more resources you provide the more lottery tickets you have!
Estimated mining potential per node| Time | Number of coins |
| first day | 800 |
| first week | 1800 |
| first month | 4000 |
| first year | 19000 |
For a technical explanation visit the appendix (section 4) of https://github.com/maidsafe/Whitepapers/blob/master/Project-Safe.md
15% of all safecoin earned will be allocated to the developer pool. This will ensure the developer community is highly motivated and rewarded for providing free-to-use applications as their revenue model. It is proposed that developers are able to use the SAFE network to publish their applications. These application developers are called Builders and the network will reward use of these applications by paying the Builders in safecoin based on the application use by users of the system. This is calculated as the application developer can insert their own wallet address in their application (which becomes immutable) on the network. This exciting proposal may be a fully automatic revenue model for both open source projects, private individuals and application development companies. Developers who contribute code that enhances or fixes bugs in the SAFE network that are accepted into the master branch of the codebase will also be able to earn safecoin.
During the crowd-sale, backers can participate two different ways: by sending bitcoins to our crowd-sale website or by sending mastercoins to our crowd-sale “exodus address." Purchases using Mastercoin will occur on-blockchain, and MaidSafeCoins will be instantly delivered to the backer. Bitcoin purchases will occur using the buysafecoins.com website, and backers will provide the Bitcoin address where they would like to receive their MaidSafeCoins.
How will I receive my MaidSafeCoins during the crowd-sale?MaidSafeCoins are generated and distributed via the Master Protocol on top of the Bitcoin blockchain, so your Bitcoin address will also be your MaidSafeCoin address. In order to view your balance and send your tokens, you will need to use a Mastercoin wallet, such as Masterchest (for Windows) or Masterchain.info (web wallet for Mac and Linux users). These wallets will support MaidSafeCoins upon commencement of the crowd-sale.
When should I purchase MaidSafeCoins?The crowd-sale of MaidSafeCoin has an early backer incentive mechanism. Early backers will receive additional MaidSafeCoins for their purchase on the following scale:
| First Week Incentive: | 40% bonus |
| Second Week Incentive: | 30% bonus |
| Third Week Incentive: | 20% bonus |
| Fourth Week Incentive: | 10% bonus |
Up to 429,496,729 MaidSafeCoins will be generated during this crowd-sale. Once this number is reached the crowd-sale will end, so there is an incentive to become involved early.
Where can I trade my MaidSafeCoins once they are purchased?You will be able to exchange your MaidSafeCoins for safecoins once the SAFE Network is launched, and you will also be able to trade your MaidSafeCoins immediately upon receipt at exchanges that support MaidSafeCoin. MasterXchange.com is an exchange that will support MaidSafeCoin immediately once the crowd-sale has begun, so once your purchase has occurred you will be able to trade your MaidSafeCoins immediately. You will be able to send your MaidSafeCoins to any Bitcoin address (using a Mastercoin wallet) as soon as they are received by you.
What is the Master Protocol?The Master Protocol, developed by the Mastercoin Foundation, facilitates the creation and trading of smart properties and user currencies as well as other types of smart contracts by encoding information directly on the Bitcoin blockchain.
David Irvine lives in a tiny beach town called Troon on the West Coast of Scotland. He describes it as a place where old people go to retire, with a population of 15,000, a thriving golf community and views of the cliffs of Ireland on a clear day. It’s a surprising place from which to launch a product that he hopes will transform the way the Internet works.
Stockman introduces bill to impose sales taxes on 'virtual' bitcoin (From TheHill.Com)
A new bill from Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) would call for sales taxes to be paid on transactions using bitcoin.
“This is a nascent industry,” he said in a statement on Monday. “Along with 3-D printers and nanotubes, cryptocurrency is the future. We need to encourage it, not discourage it. There is risk associated with every budding industry in America.”
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3 Comments in Response to Launching Pad is set for MaidSafe and safecoin April 22nd, 2014 Noon GMT
The crowd funding was over for the initial amount in the first couple hours. From what I read, MaidSafe received well over a $million worth in Bitcoin, and very little in Mastercoin. Now all we need is to see the Safecoins show up, piggybacked on Mastercoin wallets, like the deal said.
The greatest problem with Government is TRUST, or lack of it. When you NEED Government, you ABSOLUTELY MUST trust the people who are in it to do the job correctly. There is no other way. The only other way is to GET RID OF GOVERNMENT, and to trust that folks around you are more trustworthy than Government people.
MaidSafe can change all that. A properly-built app that rides on MaidSafe can force Government people to be trustworthy.
Government should be built with its duties and limitations strictly set in place. Yet it should allow freedom for the people to engage in any activity, entirely freely, as long as they harm nobody. A MaidSafe app could make Governmental rulings of no effect if the rulings did not follow strict freedom for the people.
Start thinking it through. MaidSafe wouldn't control anything. All it would do is to authenticate Governmental rulings according to strict, preset definitions. Government rulings would not be anything until they fell into the guidelines set by the MaidSafe Government app. The app would be open-source so that any programmer could read and understand it. The app would be authenticated by everyone who desired to learn the programming.
No more faulty, lying trust... trust that is misplaced in Government people who make secret deals behind the backs of average folks who are trusting them, just so those Government people can get rich.
Wow! There's sombody else with basic libertarian ideas, on bitcointalk.org. And the ideas could be implemented a whole lot better using MaidSafe. See the "Bitcoin Island" topic at:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=551676.msg6026390#msg6026390