Update January 22, 2020
The Future of WorkchainDear Workchain community;
The past few months have been great for workchain. The economic model is done, as well as the code. The next few months will see a change in strategy.
I originally wanted workchain to be something that anyone could put together themselves, like a computer kit. But, as I've always said, crypto is still stuck in the 2014-2017 mindset and it will take some time for such a radically new idea to grow. But we're going to give it a little push.
Instead of putting out the 'first personal computer' as a kit, like MITS did with its Altair computer way back in 1974 (inspiring both Jobs and Gates simultaneously), we're going to Apple ourselves and sell the kit 'pre-assembled', so to speak. And we're going to make it an amazing user experience. The first real example of workchain will be workchain itself.
This means that over the next few weeks you'll see a bit more of the vision of workchain as an operating system for a new kind of economy, running on blockchain.
"Blockchain is an economic computer. Workchain is the OS"
Workchain OS will be a freemium product that anyone can access over their browser. It will be an interface to the workchain economy and "wapps" (workchain apps, formerly called 'ITOs'). Like Windows is an interface to a traditional computer that makes it much easier for people to use, the workchain interface will also make it easier.
In order to use parts of workchain, users will need the Workchain OS token. This will be 'airdropped', ITO-style, every 14 days to everyone who holds the Workchain token. The more workchain tokens you have, the more Workchain OS tokens you will receive. It will likely work as a subscription model (e.g., "send 500 tokens to this address for a 1-month subscription to Workchain OS")
Using the interface (or deploying a contract from MEW) anyone will be able to build a wapp within minutes, for just about any use case. The OS will not only list those wapps that you can get tokens for but also explore the work being done in each, participants, and lots of other valuable and interesting things.
Workchain token pricing is expected to correlate to the number of addresses that hold the token (0.0001*addresses).
Workchain will be an open-source project that any developer can work on. That means that my development team will be competing for validations just like any other team or dev working to make workchain better. However, token holders will still get the Workchain OS token even if competing teams are validated more.
My other projects fall under the same umbrella and may also produce tokens for Workchain: OTOL (Organization Technology Over a Ledger) will be an incentive-based messaging app for enterprises, similar to some salesforce applications. Goodomy will be the consumer version. Both will be wapps on workchain, like Microsoft has MS Office and Excel running on top of Windows, as an additional offering.
Worchain is the personal computing revolution all over again. Are you ready?
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