Guys I'm going to use this opportunity to spell out a version of the future I've been thinking about and I'd like to know if the SuperNet can potentially play a part in it.
I see a massive shift in the internet moving towards a decentralized model in just about every industry. Here's what I invision:
First we have bitcoin. The world's first purely digital and isolated from the physical world, currency. Currency that can be moved around using machine language. This break through alone will have profound impact as machines gain more and more reasons to transfer value between eachother. Bitcoin acts as the "gold standard". I measure my bitcoin in dollars, and my nxt in bitcoin.
Then next we have the programmable blockchain. Blockchain 2.0. Right now this looks like Nxt, but it could also be Ethereum, bitshares, counterpary etc... The blockchain acts as a decentralized api/database. The digital good store is a perfect excellent example of how it acts as a database. The mgw is an excellent example of how this is more then just a database, but a cooperative database. Yet another first of it's kind. This database would not be possible without bitcoin first existing, and hence I call it layer two of this transformation. Bitcoin is not meant to solve this problem and that is fine, it can remain on layer 1.
Now, the biggest problem I believe we have with the digital good store is that you cannot store any assets on it. Images, videos, music etc... This is a huge limitation. This is where layer 3 comes in and completes a serious missing piece of the puzzle. Something like maidsafe or StorJ can then come in and become the decentralized platform that hosts these sorts of assets. The blockchain itself will store pointer ID's to content located on one of these networks and websites can be built that look at both the blockchain + maidsafe/storj and use that information to construct a full website experience. This can lead to untold innovation. A true decentralized goods store, youtube, dropbox, reddit, news, forums, ebay, even localbitcoins itself etc etc etc... The list of things that this could replace could go on and on forever. Just about any centralized system can be replaced with such a system.
Now the astute of you would realize that the above system has one flaw... you would still need to call up a website url in your browser to connect to a majority of these systems. Such a centralized website would be susceptible to just at much corruption and centralization as their counterparts, not to mention closed source apps are open to all kinds of security issues. So, did you know that right now you can pretty much drag source code directly from Github into Chrome and suddenly you can have an entire website accessible on your machine as a chrome extension, except it does not need to reach out to a central server to download it's contents? Now, you did need to reach out to Github once to get the source code and install it into your browser but well... What if Github itself was actually running off of one of the decentralized services I mentioned above? You'd effectively have a decentralized internet where anybody could access any page of any type and easily install virus free p2p softtware, where applications would contain a decentralized p2p communication blockchain that is able to source it's images/videos/etc from a decentralized uncensored network such as maidsafe/storj where such resources would be paid for by the user in fractions of pennies by automatically deducting a crypto balance(likely in btc) to pay for the decentralized resources.
So what I am wondering is, how can SuperNET play a part in developing such a super-decentralized-network? James, I'd love to hear your thoughts on such a future and if you see SuperNET playing a role in it.
This is similar to the UNITY-WEB described a few posts back.
I would like to fund this, so if anybody has the skills, we can workout some sort of bounty/NXTventure deal to make this real
SuperNET is the sum of all the good ideas implemented by the community and with the 30 million+ NXT, there are a lot of projects than will be funded. For those that are still thinking the SuperNET is just me, they need to realize that already half a dozen different projects are underway under the SuperNET and you know of a few that have reached the stage of being announced.
I feel as I have started a small snowball rolling down the top of the mountain, but that is all I have done. There are so many smart and talented people and I look forward to helping make real all the cool ideas and make the people that are key contributors to this some money along the way.
James
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In spite of my not making a specific recommendation, the EVOLVE asset went from less than 100,000 assets sold prior to the deal announcement to selling out all 1 million assets and now is trading at over 50% premium. Elapsed time: 2 hrs.
Investing in early stage companies is risky, so please I advise calm, no buying panics. Patience and HODL. The market is voting quite strongly that a business model for coinevolve with a pay per conversion marketing/advertising model is promising. With the number of NXTventure projects, it could be that the internally created demand for projects alone could be a nice source of business. This would also allow people with the ideas and some capital to find the tech help to make it real.
At current marketcap, the coinevolve deal has added 1 million NXT to the SuperNET asset NAV, this is about a 1% gain. There is no assurance that I can keep doing deals like this on a regular basis, nor whether the future value of EVOLVE asset will maintain or gain from its current value.
