Topic: [ANN] SpreadCoin | True Decentralization (No Pools) | Testing New Masternodes - page 46. (Read 810076 times)

The big gorilla in the room is, how will servicenodes handle illicit / illegal material?

Suppose we have a decentralized app running on 2000 servicenodes that serves as a video-sharing alternative to youtube,
what if one of the users (or servicenode owner) decides to share some childporn?

If the service is truly decentralized then this illegal material will spread over most (or all) of the servicenodes probably without the servicenode owners even knowing that they have (fragmented or complete) childporn on their server.

So how does the community (users and/or servicenode owners) make it so that this illicit video is deleted as fast as possible network-wide, or can't even be uploaded in the first place?

A few options:

a) simple flagging mechanism (if enough users flag the publicly findable material it will be erased automatically by the system)
b) let the poor servicenode owner police every single upload and decide everytime if the material is acceptable or not.
c) create some form of sophisticated porn recognition algorithms that are able to recognize both nudity/sex and the age of participants

Hm, let's look at those options a little closer:

a) can obviously be abused, because how do we even know if a single user is really a single human being, and not just a bunch of bots.
Also, since the material is available for some period of time this will unleash the expected shit storm coming from governments etc...

b) would be hell on earth for servicenode owners and nobody would want to run such a dangerous filesharing app anyway

c) seems like the only viable solution, but is also outside of the technological possibilities of today... or is it?  

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Another similar problem is ofcourse copyrighted material. And it would require a similar solution.

Compiling ServiceNodes in my small brain, I get an output which includes this option:



There is nothing to say that ServiceNodes could not be configured around a franchise model  

I tried to set-up a franchise type business last year with a couple of people from DRK, but my service contracts prevented me from doing so. But this is a great alternative that gets around that.

Let's use an example.

Escrow services can run off ServiceNodes. But in some countries you need a licence to operate the escrow service. Instead of this being a problem, we can turn it into an opportunity.

To operate an Escrow service, running off the ServiceNodes, you need to buy a franchise off the network. This will cover you for your local area. In the USA alone there are 19,300 nationally recognised incorporated places. So, if you just use that number and not factor in being able to x5 to allow for locations with tightly packed populations, the network can sell a minimum of 19,300 Escrow franchise opportunities.

Lets say you need $5,000 to licence an Escrow franchise, the USA market could be worth $1bn in Franchise fees. If you can get 1% of that, you are still talking about $10m.

Factor in the global market, and you can see the franchise market being worth $10bn-$20bn.

The thing about the escrow model running off ServiceNodes is that I don't think you need a licence to run a franchise. Why? Because using multi-sig the two parties to the transaction never hand over the money to the ServiceNode network. Nor can the network take ownership of the funds at any point. It's just a decentralized independent third party service to ensure both parties to a deal play fair or by the rules.

This is a far superior model than the existing Escrow service.

Thanks for the hint.
My signature is now feeling much better.

btw

can't send you any tips - your SPR addy in your sig is pointing to .net

edit

or the other devs  

The free market is such a jolly fellow! 

+101

You posted, and the market moved up 75%  

At that rate we should be up at $10m by the end of April  

 20,000
 40,000
 60,000
 110,000
 190,000
 330,000
 570,000
 1,010,000
 1,760,000
 3,080,000
 5,390,000
 9,430,000

working on design and structure of both website and ann thread right now...
I will keep you guys updated as often as possible.

A quick sneak peak of how the new website & Ann thread will look like, and what kind of design elements they will include:



I will use a lot of such animations to visualize every aspect of spreadcoin and its servicenodes.
(they won't be GIFs when finalized but javascript driven realtime animations, but I will have to use GIFs for the ann thread here.)

PS: those simulations are not very accurate and are only here for visualisation purposes.

Any ETA on the new thread?

Idk if you had 50,000 SPR and they were each worth $22,000 each then you could buy tumblr with no problem.

Sure - first get $1bn, buy up a few SPR and make an offer to one of them.

Can I buy one of them with SPREAD?

So far we have a handful of Apps, that run on the infrastructure built by others, that have a combined value of around $40bn.

Contrast that with the value of Bitcoin and all the altcoins which have a combined value of $4bn, or 10%.


ServiceNodes offer a way to create value through decentralised applications. Each application could achieve a value greater than Bitcoin.

Tumblr

Worth $1bn

Instagram

Worth $1bn

Candy Crush

Worth $7bn

WhatsApp

Worth $22bn

Evernote

Worth $1bn

Social messaging App, Tango

Worth $1bn

SnapChat

App only worth $2bn