I've heard that the Ethereum and Synereo devs are cooperating in blockchain technology development. I'm curious as to what is the extent of this cooperation. Greg, the lead Synereo dev, has briefly discussed this in the
Synereo hangout sessions. Does anyone have any additional insight into this?
I wouldn't be surprised if they built a social network on top of Ethereum.
But do you think synero would be able to make a success of their project?
I remember taking a look at their website and it was butters mate. Put me right off it imediately.
How does a "social network" intend to get away with a site that ugly?
I think this thread is a thinly veiled attempt to somehow associate the synero project with the ethereum project with no evidence except the dev of the project no ones heard of told someone else that he is talking to the lead dev of the project that is currently a runaway success.
Sounds like either an attempt to muddy the waters or hype a shitty project.
It is common knowledge that Greg, Synereo's CSO, is leading the design of Casper, Ethereum's new proposed Proof of Stake blockchain:
https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/12/28/understanding-serenity-part-2-casper/He has spoken about the design principles of the technology underlying this effort, what would allow it to scale, in the recent Ethereum developer conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzahKc_ukfMSynereo is NOT building their technology on Ethereum. Rather, it is Ethereum who are using Greg's decades of expertise in the field, and Synereo technology, to build their own.
Ethereum has provided Synereo with developer grants for this purpose. Hopefully, collaboration will continue in other ways as well.
We also believe that our notion of a "smart contract", which we call a social contract, is more advanced, mature and scalable than anyone else's. People in the industry are starting to get a sense of this as well, including our friends at Ethereum.
http://blog.synereo.com/2015/03/06/social-contracts-pt-ii/A comprehensive post going into detail about all of these subjects are in the works.
Feel free to ask any other question about this here or on our slack channel at
slack.synereo.com.