Quote from: threecats on May 08, 2015, 12:28:03 PM

Quote from: cambda on May 08, 2015, 11:04:27 AM

Quote from: co5hike on May 08, 2015, 07:29:04 AM

I hear Adam say something about porting Viral into a QT wallet plug in, did I hear that right?

Actually that was my idea originally. I am working on it in connection with the bounties announced in the slack chat. it's a way of porting the Viral mechanism onto any existing QT wallet, so while staking from a different wallet you can show as an active viral node. Adam had a similar idea but more browser based. We have been discussing my idea as being more practical for an earlier iteration. if anyone has any thoughts or comments they are welcome.

Interesting idea. I would propose that you make the plug in architecture QT generic but coin specific, and actually run your metrics through each particular coin. That is, for example, a Doge plug-in that allows any doge user to be a node and collect revenue in Doge. Of course the revenue and metrics go in and out of Viral, but that can be strictly under the hood. Many coins have identifiably different user bases and that would be an attractive segmenting method for advertisers.

In addition, one could allow a subnode to recruit a coin community and profit for this effort. For example if I am a Blackcoin dev, i am incentivized to build out and offer the plugin because effectively all Blackcoin users who opt into using the plugin become part of my subnet. And the effort to do this is decentralized, ie not coming from Viral. So expanding the network this way is very frictionless.

Fair play. Your idea for instigator / node guru for each coin fits right into the idea of Verified. That is, anyone in the network can build out a subnetwork and profit from it. Seems to me the trick is to make the rules / structure of Verified simple enough / generic enough, almost like a Turing machine - so that all kinds of interesting subnetworks - not just those based on crypto, but even on browsers etc. could function inside the Viral network.

If done correctly it could even make the pathways of integration different in different social networks. So that Pinterest sponsored pins could be the lingua franca. And the Viral network itself would be basically invisible inside of Pinterest.