Zo moet je het dus aanpakken, je held vereren, blurb met zwart-wit foto zo donker als maar kan:
The punk rock internet – how DIY rebels are working to replace the tech giants
MaidSafe was founded 12 years ago by the 52-year-old computing engineer and former lifeboat captain David Irvine.
Uit het Handelsregister in het Verenigd Koninkrijk, date of birth: April 1965.
Even iets van wat iemand anders in hem ziet, maar kort:
He has the air of someone with so many ideas he can barely get them all out. Despite spurning money from venture capitalists, his company has come from humble beginnings to the verge of its proper launch.
Dan vol erin, waarom:
In a pristine meeting room, Irvine explains a mistake carried over from old-fashioned corporate computer networks to the modern internet. “There’s a big server, and people connect to it. That used to be the way companies work; now, they’ve done the same thing to the internet. Which is remarkably stupid, because they are central points of failure. They’re points of attack. There are passwords on them: stuff gets stolen.”
Hoe? Zo:
His alternative is what he calls the Safe network: the acronym stands for “Safe Access for Everyone”. In this model, rather than being stored on distant servers, people’s data – files, documents, social-media interactions – will be broken into fragments, encrypted and scattered around other people’s computers and smartphones, meaning that hacking and data theft will become impossible.
Thanks to a system of self-authentication in which a Safe user’s encrypted information would only be put back together and unlocked on their own devices, there will be no centrally held passwords.
No one will leave data trails, so there will be nothing for big online companies to harvest. The financial lubricant will be a cryptocurrency called Safecoin: users will pay to store data on the network, and also be rewarded for storing other people’s (encrypted) information on their devices.
Discussie, in de oertijd liepen krokodillen nog rechtop:
One big question hangs over Irvine’s concept of a decentralised internet: given what we know about what some people use technology for, the encrypted information stored on people’s devices will include fragments of nasty, illegal stuff, won’t it?
“It will.”
“Even MaidSafe staff don’t know who is on the network, where they are based, what has been stored and where the data is located.”
“No. We don’t know.”
Even if it includes child abuse images, or so-called revenge porn or beheading videos?
“Yeah.”
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, gaat over ons:
There is a community of around 7,000 interested people already working on services that will work on the Safe network, including alternatives to platforms such as Facebook and YouTube.
Hebben deze week, op de ‘UK-no-deal’-dag, in een paar uur tijd terloops een bak geld ingeleverd:
MaidSafe Loan Opportunity - APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED!
As we all know the company now has funds for the next year or so (crypto price-dependent), however it would benefit greatly from an investment perspective to remove any financial constraints to maintaining the very best team we can afford. MaidSafe as a business also wish to remove the burden of continually seeking investment via VCs and grants, which detracts from focus on launch. Ideally, we would like to be able to fund the company, potentially at no cost to anyone, and reward those who help us out. I believe we can achieve this in a simple and effective way.
Dirvine:
Problem is we surpassed that in the first evening. The process was stopped with over 26 million already pledged.
Feinberg:
26 Million? Dude…
Dirvine:
It’s all horses for courses.
Feinberg:
Holy sh*t. There is no stopping us with that level of support.
Tegen de achtergrond van flink bezuinigen, ‘pristine meeting rooms’ begonnen MaidSafe de das om te doen.
Uitleg over het vehikel, een dubbeltje:
Note: At the time of writing the SAFE Network is still pre-release (Alpha) and Safecoin is not yet implemented. However, a token called MaidSafeCoin (MAID) can be purchased on cryptocurrency exchanges. When the Network goes live MAID will be exchanged for Safecoin on a 1:1 basis.
Uit diezelfde ‘primer’ een stuk of wat ‘Fundamental Principles of the SAFE Network’ doen:
- Allow a person to create an account and login anonymously and without intervention.
Creating a new account and logging into the Network will never require a third party.- Enable users to securely and with no controlling intermediaries share information and messages. > The SAFE Network will never allow third parties to either read or store the information sent by a user without that user’s consent.
- Allow the transfer of the Network currency Safecoin to any user free of transaction costs.
- Enable Users to anonymously create and share data worldwide. The Network will always ensure that the user has the ability to send transaction messages and posts with a temporary single-use ID that is not linked to any known identity on the Network.
- Let anyone browse content anonymously and free of charge and without the need to create an account.
- Allow users to associate multiple identities with their account.
- Let users utilize any of their identities to send/receive Safecoin.
- Store data in perpetuity. All public/published data on the Network will be immutable and available on the Network indefinitely.
- Never require passwords to be stored on the Network or on machines used to access the Network.
- Allow any user, on any machine, to access the Network leaving no trace of their presence or activity on the machine.