Quote from: Wind_FURY on September 14, 2016, 06:53:03 AM

What do you think of this proposal by the people behind Spreadcoin?

http://spreadcoin.info/news/proof-of-bitcoin-node-white-paper/

They are proposing an idea called "Proof of Bitcoin Node". I only made a quick skim on the link above and I have not fully understood it well, but the first impression I got from it is that PoBN is basically another layer on top of Bitcoin that gives incentive to the people running Bitcoin nodes thru big data mining.

Now I am not much of a technical person so it would be nice if someone explains what Spreadcoin is trying to achieve and how big data plays a role in their idea.

I am a member of the Spreadcoin community and can probably lend a hand in explaining what we're trying to do. I don't know that this is the best place to do it. However, there is definitely development going on. Feel free to check out / post in the forum here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1045373.4700

We currently have one very dedicated and highly principled developer working on it right now. However, more devs would definitely help because it is a large problem to solve.

Cheers!

Edit: This is a small summary upcoming development release in the dev's words:

Quote from: georgem on August 30, 2016, 09:14:17 AM

First of all, the spreadwallet is now a multicoin multiwallet that can operate in SPV and Fullnode mode. Cool

In short, what you'll get is:

- decentralized UTXO blockexplorer that works with the nodes you host locally (on your main computer or spread over your local network)
- multihost capabilities that allow you to run multiple nodes in your local network, remote controlling them with your spreadwallet.
- easy setup and control through SSH of all the raspberry pis in your local network.
- multiwallet support for many coins, immediate use of all those coins in SPV mode.
- support for many different styles of wallets (deterministic, non-deterministic, TREZOR and paperwallets)
- update of the spreadcoin daemon to newest bitcoin core codebase