Quote from: zeeman on May 21, 2018, 06:21:11 PM

Looks like MaidSafe made a technical breakthrough when it comes to consensus:

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In last week's #SAFENetwork Dev Update we promised a big announcement in routing this week, keep your eyes open to find out what's coming

It's not Alpha 3, we think it's bigger than that! Exciting news coming soon from the #SAFENetwork

All decentralised networks must overcome a fundamental problem: without centralised control how do you collectively agree on what's happening? To do this you must have a consensus mechanism #SAFENetwork

More details to come tomorrow... #SAFENetwork

Link: https://twitter.com/maidsafe/status/998583531176648709

They worked for months with a team designing and testing this stuff. You can not have secure data-storage in a P2P-network if the nodes can not agree on who stores what chunk of data. Especially if you want to provide 100% data integrity (like your chunks, coins and data still being there even if you didn't touch them for several years).

So no matter if the network gets 200.000 new nodes in a certain month, or if it looses a bunch of them...... Your data should be secured no matter what (even after an internet blackout).

It seems they have the consensus and Routing part in place (IP-connection layer was already done). This means they can finally move towards beta. First we'll see Alpha 3 and Alpha 4 I guess.

This could explain the increase in volume that someone has noticed lately. Let's really hope that beta is not too far, but on the other side, the real important aspect is the quality of the solution delivered, not the quantity of time that it is necessary to achieve it.