Re: [ANN] IPO of MaidSafe: Entering the Future of the Decentralized Internet
I've got 3 issues.
1. MAID is ancient Kad-based tech that still can't do what Freenet did 15 years ago, yet aspires to charge for the same services and presumed to collect IPO money for vaporware development.
2. MAID's old tech is being hyped by bolting on some trendy "MOAR BLOCKCHAIN" stuff via a Rube Goldberg layer of SafeCoin rigmarole.
3. Inquires about issues 1 & 2 are met with hostility, speculation about motivations, personal attacks, and very little technical disclosure.
Now I've answered your question, please address one of mine.
Do you feel MAID is by default automatically due respect, or should it be forced to earn respect by demonstrated real-world utility?
1. MAID is ancient Kad-based tech that still can't do what Freenet did 15 years ago, yet aspires to charge for the same services and presumed to collect IPO money for vaporware development.
2. MAID's old tech is being hyped by bolting on some trendy "MOAR BLOCKCHAIN" stuff via a Rube Goldberg layer of SafeCoin rigmarole.
3. Inquires about issues 1 & 2 are met with hostility, speculation about motivations, personal attacks, and very little technical disclosure.
Now I've answered your question, please address one of mine.
Do you feel MAID is by default automatically due respect, or should it be forced to earn respect by demonstrated real-world utility?
1. It's based on Kademlia, but way faster (nodes going offline detected in milliseconds instead of hours to as much as a day). Freenet is around for years and years and although I respect them for their tech: you can't log on to Freenet, you can't register a readable URL on their system. Freenet gets your files your files from cache. Pray to the P2P Gods that your uploaded file from 3 months ago is still there. So Maidsafe is bringing us at least 3 things that Freenet couldn't so far. Authentication, URL's registered in a decentralized DNS and storage of your personal and public files as long as you want. Name me on other Kademlia based P2P-system with a decentralized DNS and Authentication. I bet you can't.
2. What on earth are you talking about? Safenet won't use a blockchain.
3. If you just FUD here on the forum you probably won't find any documentation. I'm not gonna search it for you. But here's a little example:
"very little technical disclosure"
you gotta be kidding me!