I hate to put it this way, but let's be coldly rational here. Please do not take this as an offensive question: What can we offer that maidsafe cannot? Since it will be based on 'safecoins' I'm assuming it will cost money to use which is one advantage we have. Anything beside that though?
Blockchains are a crappy thing to put an entire set of technologies on top of, especially since Ghash.io was capable of executing the 51% attack earlier this year. Should we focus on small world vs blockchain? Is this even an issue? Curious to know what everyone thinks. On Nov 17, 2014 4:27 PM, "Matthew Toseland" <mj...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > On 17/11/14 20:46, Michael Grube wrote: > > I know I've not comment or contributed in some time now, but I just have > > some comments on this. > > > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Matthew Toseland <mj...@cam.ac.uk> > wrote: > > > >> On 16/11/14 17:50, Ian wrote: > >>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Matthew Toseland <mj...@cam.ac.uk> > >> wrote: > >>>> On 16/11/14 16:36, Ian Clarke wrote: > >>>>> We're in an interesting situation. The world finally appears to > really > >>>>> care about the things that Freenet has been about from the very > >>>> beginning a > >>>>> decade and a half ago (most of the publicity back then viewed Freenet > >>>>> through the prism of Napster and copyright infringement). People > >> finally > >>>>> care about anonymity, privacy, government monitoring, etc. We should > >> be > >>>>> able to capitalize on this but it will take work. > >>>> And in the meantime every wannabe clone project gets all the funding, > >>>> and we don't, because we're old news. Yeah. > >>>> > >>> I don't think it's because we're old news, although I think that's a > >>> perception challenge we need to address. I think it's because we > really > >>> haven't been making much of an effort to market ourselves. In the past > >>> journalists came to us, and I was fairly good at communicating with > them > >> on > >>> the project's behalf, but we can't rely on organic press interest any > >> more, > >>> we need to make an effort to reach out. > >>> > >>> For example, we should be perfect for a kickstarter project, we just > need > >>> to do it, and do it to a high standard (good message, good quality > video, > >>> etc). > >> Is it actually possible to do a Kickstarter-or-one-of-its-competitors > >> project if you are a social network (therefore banned from Kickstarter) > >> with no physical goodies to give to donors and no intention of making a > >> profit? > >> > > Freenet as darknet might technically be referred to as a social network, > > but not in the commonly known sense. > > > > Physical goodies can be a low power freenet node to run, since freenet is > > ideal in 24/7 conditions anyway. > > > > I am worried about competition from maidsafe, who is a business that > claims > > to offer everything freenet does with the ability to farm. We need to > > differentiate from or beat them, IMO. > > > > That's all, thanks. > I think OSS projects are excluded? Kickstarter is really a business > incubator. But I believe IndieGoGo allows more. > > Low power freenet node is something somebody interested should work > on... long run they will be important for darknet. > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl@freenetproject.org > https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
