Quote from: adamvp on Today at 03:06:15 PM

do you think MaidSafe can break into the mainstream?

to note: MaidSafe is the company; Safe Network is the product.

So, the Safe Network is grounded in generic concepts of Privacy; Security; and Freedom. Those will appeal to mainstream, as they solve many problems. Those strengths are designed to be a counterbalance to the problems that the current interest suffers from; having learned lessons from the current internet, the developers are looking to solve them.

There are clearly problems with data security; with privacy; with freedom of expression.
The solution is to empower the user, rather than indulge the greed of others as if big is better.

There are a lot more problems than those which Safe Network can solve - one is loss of data. The Safe Network's ambition is pay once, retain forever. It's a different environment as a serverless autonomous network but there are great advantages. Even if all it becomes is a backdrop for data storage the difference it will make is huge.

While there are some detractors and interests that are not aligned; while the old, will resist change; and while those who exploit users for their data, will resist strongly.. I would suggest that progress is inevitable.

Power corrupts and the most powerful resist change most strongly.. but the individual users need something different; something better.
The power that leeches from the opportunity that the original internet promised, is undermining itself.. as is always the way with corruption, the tide turns because they push away those they exploit.

"Freedom of expression, control of personal data, private and secure communications; and a whole new economy." - These are concepts that truely matter, if we are to have a better world. We cannot expect the current internet to provide better than it is designed to, there are fundamental problems with the design that work against everyone's better interest.

So, yes I think it can go mainstream in a big way.. yes, I think the most powerful actors will resist loosing their vice like on the current normal .. but I think users deserve better.

Also, given the forum we are on, I will note that the quality and consistency delivery from the MaidSafe developers, outclasses every other project that is remotely crypto related. I would expect anyone looking for what the real world output can follow from what crypto-currency and crypto-assets have promised, will want in because frankly crypto has under-delivered.. a large part of that is the PoW problem - willingly PoS to work won't make it happen.. and Safe Network is a really simple solution to all that interest. Yet, that is just one aspect.

The Safe Network is so much more.. that it has a token in MAID that will be exchanged 1:1 for safecoin on the network, is incidental. The real prospect is in the utility.

A better internet - yes, I think that can be mainstream!

There's a lot more background at https://safenetwork.tech/

Community forum at https://safenetforum.org/
Developer abcs at https://hub.safedev.org
Github at https://github.com/maidsafe

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