So here we have it folks. A path to guide us through the final turns of the journey and across what to some might feel like a finish-line, but is the start of a new future.
On top of what our expanding team is working on, you’ll have lots of opportunities to be involved directly in this roadmap—and be rewarded for getting stuck in.
This week has seen us working on the remaining tasks to be tidied up before beta and the next testnet. Plus there’s been lots going on with comms behind the scenes.
ICYMI: MaidSafe (remember them) have appointed a new CEO to take Safe Network from beta to launch and are starting communications today, with online events starting tomorrow (Xitter spaces), and new roadmap this week.
New CEO is @forthebux who helped take Gala Music and Gala Games to massive success in a few months.
Our new CEO Bux will be taking many of the partnership and commercial activities off David’s hands, leaving him free for some serious thinking and able to really get his hands dirty once again.
Bux has masses of experience in Web 3 projects, most recently Gala, and is a perfect fit for our project.
New staff members will join soon to help us with the AI aspects of the vision.
ValentinesNet is still going strong, so all being well we’ll keep it alive til we run out of space or release a breaking change.
We are moving ahead with updates on the fly, and hope to put it to the test on the current testnet. Basically what will happen is that node IDs and data will be seamlessly retained even as the sn_node software is updated.
We have a suspicion that the high-mem nodes are those that subscribed to gossip for royalties. This testnet is aiming to probe that hypothesis by removing gossip royalties!
The aim here is largely to see if we have avoided such high memory nodes.
Imagine what amazing user respecting collaborative apps we could have on a #p2p network with a range of #CRDT / #LocalFirst data types.
That boggles my mind because right now apps are dominated by corporate imperatives and we have so much more imagination to put into a truly open peer-to-peer ecosystem.
Now, back to trying to understand how to use the #Rust#CRDTs crate in #SafeNetwork's mutable data types. I'm working on an example to print the history of a RegisterCRDT and my head hurts!
Yesterday we launched our latest testnet to analyse the effect of encryption on node memory performance. This builds on the previous QuicNet, which saw a move from TCP to QUIC, and drew a rapturous response.
QUIC is evidently the future. Nevertheless, this being cutting-edge engineering, for every step forward the law says there has to be half a step back ...
Seeing a lot of how to save Firefox toots today, well two in a few minutes 🤷♂️ and another yesterday!
I know a way.
One said #Mozilla are suffering from a mature market, which is not the whole story but a good point, and a pointer to a way to put #Firefox on top.
If @mozilla Firefox were to build a Browser for #SafeNetwork they would have first mover advantage on a network that will not attract big tech, because it is user focused with privacy and security from the ground up. #p2p
The Anti-Capitalist Software License (#ACSL) can be adapted but as it stands does not require disclosure of derived code, instead limits use to individuals and organisations which do not exploit labour, but are either non-profit / educational, or employee owned.