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sr. member
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Do any of the blocknet team have any thoughts on this?-https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=826263.0
 Would it be possible to incorporate this into the blocknet?


the blocknet is like a network.  what you are looking at in that link is a programming language implimented into a coin.  it would make more sense to put that on xcurrency than the blocknet.

I think Atomic cross-chain transfers would be relevant to this discussion.

Edit- Although I understand you are referring to the turing complete scripting language that CIYAM has created, this is something new. It's about transfers between block chains who are running the language.
legendary
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To commodify ethicality is to ethicise the market
I read much marketing meaningless babble (like "the internet of blockchains"), but not much subtance or technical details...

could you please explain for one use case, from the beginning to the end, how would this work?
e.g. let's say I want to send money using SMS, a feature from XST, while I hold some other thing, let's say APEX. Coins would be automagically exchanged? how? what currency does the service provider receive? can the receiver of the SMS receive other currency than XST? how?

the xbridge api would have a method for each possible service? so it would have to be updated every time a new service is added... otherwise... how would it work?

Is the coding of the exchange and the xbridge api finished? When would this be deployed? right after the ITO?

thanks!

Hey hey

Have you checked out the FAQ below the OP?

The XBridge is a protocol. There's only one XBridge.

The API supports a general-purpose application platform. Ultimately there aren't that many fundamental actions to code for. Their composites would specify a very wide range of potential applications. That said, no doubt the API will go through revisions from time to time, and more or less indefinitely, as technology advances.

Part of the XBridge code is done. But only part. The exchange is not done (though in reality I suspect there'll be multiple decentralised exchanges all competing to offer their services).


As for your SMS example, it would depend to a large extent on however XST code it, but here's a sketch:
Let's say you owe APEX.
And you want to SMS some APEX over to someone.
Your node would pay an XST node for the service, using APEX.
The APEX would be automatically exchanged for XST.
The XST node receive the XST and keep it as profit.
The XST node would pay the Blocknet microfee.
The XST node would take phone number you're sending the amount to.
It would send the amount in XST (because the SMS system is built on the XST blockchain).
The recipient node would receive the XST.
The recipient node would then convert the XST to APEX using the decentralised exchange.
The resulting APEX would then be sent to the recipient's APEX node.

If you're wondering how decentralised exchange works, this speculative post could turn into an interesting discussion.

Took a while before one question that is actually important was asked.

Next question obviously is, how does the system deal with slippage, so you don't start with $5,000 worth of APEX and end up with $2,500 worth of APEX. And, how do you protect against people/bots exploiting the exchange when they know that soon someone's gonna have to sell a hefty amount of XST for APEX.

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so you don't start with $5,000 worth of APEX and end up with $2,500 worth of APEX

this is one thing I don't get.  my assumption with the other one (supernet? all out scam by jl777 dude to let him offload his assets wout tanking the market) was that this was why they were getting 10% of the coins to somehow have like a ripple effect of those 10% of coins always being available.

Put in coin A at current coin A/B price -> do coin B stuff with coin B that net owns -> exchange back for coin A without having to go to the exchanges.  it still seems like they'd run ou of popular coins and have too many of unpopular coins. 

but it gets really fuzzy in my head. 


Good questions there. Nice one.

As with any exchange, slippage depends on liquidity and trade size.
To mitigate risk to the user, the exchange could first return a quote (at a cost, of course) before exchanging.
The exchange wouldn't keep any coins; it's decentralised so there'd always be users supplying liquidity. Therefore unpopular (illiquid, in this context) coins would either get dumped or held.
Bots could exploit the exchange if they knew what a given previous trade was for - in this case an SMS tx that involves trading back to the original currency.
But bots will have no access to this information. XBridge communication is encrypted and P2P.

newbie
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Do any of the blocknet team have any thoughts on this?-https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=826263.0
 Would it be possible to incorporate this into the blocknet?


the blocknet is like a network.  what you are looking at in that link is a programming language implimented into a coin.  it would make more sense to put that on xcurrency than the blocknet.
hero member
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Is this how the Blocknet works?
You have XST, you want to use a function of SWIFT.

You pay in XST you click what function you want to use, then the Blocknet converts the XST to SWIFT(*1) and then once the function has been used it converts it back from SWIFT to XST(*1).

*1: Does the Blocknet hold funds from every coin to do this?

Please tell me if I have it right.
sr. member
Activity: 478
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Do any of the blocknet team have any thoughts on this?-https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=826263.0
 Would it be possible to incorporate this into the blocknet?
full member
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Another important question: how on earth does someone with a newbie account post negatively in THIS forum? Newbies Fudding in alt forums, I get that, but hard to imagine someone with little-to-no prior involvement within these pages as having a clue about this (Blocknet's proposed) tech.
JMO
hero member
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so you don't start with $5,000 worth of APEX and end up with $2,500 worth of APEX

this is one thing I don't get.  my assumption with the other one (supernet?) was that this was why they were getting 10% of the coins to somehow have like a ripple effect of those 10% of coins always being available.

Put in coin A at current coin A/B price -> do coin B stuff with coin B that net owns -> exchange back for coin A without having to go to the exchanges.  it still seems like they'd run ou of popular coins and have too many of unpopular coins.  

but it gets really fuzzy in my head.  

Well they better have an answer before they start raising money for the project.
sr. member
Activity: 462
Merit: 250
I read much marketing meaningless babble (like "the internet of blockchains"), but not much subtance or technical details...

could you please explain for one use case, from the beginning to the end, how would this work?
e.g. let's say I want to send money using SMS, a feature from XST, while I hold some other thing, let's say APEX. Coins would be automagically exchanged? how? what currency does the service provider receive? can the receiver of the SMS receive other currency than XST? how?

the xbridge api would have a method for each possible service? so it would have to be updated every time a new service is added... otherwise... how would it work?

Is the coding of the exchange and the xbridge api finished? When would this be deployed? right after the ITO?

thanks!

Hey hey

Have you checked out the FAQ below the OP?

The XBridge is a protocol. There's only one XBridge.

The API supports a general-purpose application platform. Ultimately there aren't that many fundamental actions to code for. Their composites would specify a very wide range of potential applications. That said, no doubt the API will go through revisions from time to time, and more or less indefinitely, as technology advances.

Part of the XBridge code is done. But only part. The exchange is not done (though in reality I suspect there'll be multiple decentralised exchanges all competing to offer their services).


As for your SMS example, it would depend to a large extent on however XST code it, but here's a sketch:
Let's say you owe APEX.
And you want to SMS some APEX over to someone.
Your node would pay an XST node for the service, using APEX.
The APEX would be automatically exchanged for XST.
The XST node receive the XST and keep it as profit.
The XST node would pay the Blocknet microfee.
The XST node would take phone number you're sending the amount to.
It would send the amount in XST (because the SMS system is built on the XST blockchain).
The recipient node would receive the XST.
The recipient node would then convert the XST to APEX using the decentralised exchange.
The resulting APEX would then be sent to the recipient's APEX node.

If you're wondering how decentralised exchange works, this speculative post could turn into an interesting discussion.

Took a while before one question that is actually important was asked.

Next question obviously is, how does the system deal with slippage, so you don't start with $5,000 worth of APEX and end up with $2,500 worth of APEX. And, how do you protect against people/bots exploiting the exchange when they know that soon someone's gonna have to sell a hefty amount of XST for APEX.
This is an interesting question. If both sending and receiving addresses are APEX addresses, why is there a need to make XST-XST SMS transaction as neither the sender nor the recipient of this transaction has anything to do with the original transaction. Isn't in this example APEX-APEX transaction simply becoming APEX-exchange-APEX transaction, something what Cloak had at its infancy?
newbie
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so you don't start with $5,000 worth of APEX and end up with $2,500 worth of APEX

this is one thing I don't get.  my assumption with the other one (supernet? all out scam by jl777 dude to let him offload his assets wout tanking the market) was that this was why they were getting 10% of the coins to somehow have like a ripple effect of those 10% of coins always being available.

Put in coin A at current coin A/B price -> do coin B stuff with coin B that net owns -> exchange back for coin A without having to go to the exchanges.  it still seems like they'd run ou of popular coins and have too many of unpopular coins.  

but it gets really fuzzy in my head.  

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What's the point?

I don't have a lot of patience or tolerance for bullshit.  And prefer to get down to brass tax.
legendary
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To commodify ethicality is to ethicise the market
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And we're not interested in having a squabble, so you get booted out.

Which is why you have a circle jerk going on in your thread rather than productive discussion.  & you have a very critical public facing thread in the more visited area of the forums.

Gotta keep the circlejerk going to keep people from dumping.  But on the other hand - the issue of not actually accepting negativity has forced it elsewhere.  Which keeps new money out of XC.

Funny how I always look for unmoderated threads if I'm contemplating an altcoins legitimacy now.  Why would I come "alongside" a community?  Truth doesn't come alongside anybody.  It sits there like an elephant in the room and pisses people off as they howl in pain at lost retirement accounts while Enron drops form $200 a share to .20.

You're right that truth doesn't come alongside anybody.

The issue isn't the truth, it's that you bash people over the head with your opinions.

For all anyone knows, you have a point. But you'd be wrong to think that you'll get anywhere by bashing people over the head.

The truth will never be heard unless it's spoken with respect and empathy.

Question is, why do you persist with a manner of addressing people designed to make them want you to leave? What's the point?
hero member
Activity: 966
Merit: 1003
I read much marketing meaningless babble (like "the internet of blockchains"), but not much subtance or technical details...

could you please explain for one use case, from the beginning to the end, how would this work?
e.g. let's say I want to send money using SMS, a feature from XST, while I hold some other thing, let's say APEX. Coins would be automagically exchanged? how? what currency does the service provider receive? can the receiver of the SMS receive other currency than XST? how?

the xbridge api would have a method for each possible service? so it would have to be updated every time a new service is added... otherwise... how would it work?

Is the coding of the exchange and the xbridge api finished? When would this be deployed? right after the ITO?

thanks!

Hey hey

Have you checked out the FAQ below the OP?

The XBridge is a protocol. There's only one XBridge.

The API supports a general-purpose application platform. Ultimately there aren't that many fundamental actions to code for. Their composites would specify a very wide range of potential applications. That said, no doubt the API will go through revisions from time to time, and more or less indefinitely, as technology advances.

Part of the XBridge code is done. But only part. The exchange is not done (though in reality I suspect there'll be multiple decentralised exchanges all competing to offer their services).


As for your SMS example, it would depend to a large extent on however XST code it, but here's a sketch:
Let's say you owe APEX.
And you want to SMS some APEX over to someone.
Your node would pay an XST node for the service, using APEX.
The APEX would be automatically exchanged for XST.
The XST node receive the XST and keep it as profit.
The XST node would pay the Blocknet microfee.
The XST node would take phone number you're sending the amount to.
It would send the amount in XST (because the SMS system is built on the XST blockchain).
The recipient node would receive the XST.
The recipient node would then convert the XST to APEX using the decentralised exchange.
The resulting APEX would then be sent to the recipient's APEX node.

If you're wondering how decentralised exchange works, this speculative post could turn into an interesting discussion.

Took a while before one question that is actually important was asked.

Next question obviously is, how does the system deal with slippage, so you don't start with $5,000 worth of APEX and end up with $2,500 worth of APEX. And, how do you protect against people/bots exploiting the exchange when they know that soon someone's gonna have to sell a hefty amount of XST for APEX.
sr. member
Activity: 462
Merit: 250
@Revelation, your post history is a stream of abuse and negativity.

You pretty much just don't post constructive, respectful things.

Kindly be civil or leave this thread.



@Revelation - I would recommend this thread if you want to speak objectively, not be censored & have the audience of the entire altcoin section rather than just those who frequent the XC thread.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/xcurrency-xc-blocknet-community-thread-830893


joebob999, it is deceitful to make out that revelation (or you, for that matter) is speaking "objectively".

It is not an issue of objectivity, for two reasons:

- revelation is being uncivil, not specifically untruthful. It's not a matter of objectivity but of respect for others.

- people have subjective viewpoints, not objective ones. So revelation couldn't "speak objectively" if he tried. He's not God.


Finally, you've behaved utterly awfully in the XC thread. Take this to heart, because it explains why Teka banned you from it.
You'd be fooling yourself if you think of yourself as a righteous and "objective" protester against "censorship". Get a grip.


You have deleted a single post of mine where I was commenting on your marketing and IPO strategy. I am concerned with your marketing approach and the amount effort you are putting into it. There is so little substance and so much hype atm. I am thinking of investing, however I am increasingly becoming concerned.
I just want a reply to the following statement:

Quote


How on Earth are you "respecting the possibility that hype could lead to overbought conditions during the ITO and prompt a selloff that harms investors"? You are trying to squeeze as much juice from investors as you can by offering huge IPO. You are NOT respecting the possibility of a selloff, you are creating that possibility with your enormous ceiling, 24h marketing and hype (and that fairytale story of 400-900% return). By doing this you are lowering post-ITO demand as investors that support you will be fully invested when the ITO ends.
Stop with the PR and marketing and bring some real development before the ITO.


Sure, I'll answer because I respect your question, but the way you ask it is deeply disrespectful to the people you're addressing. Just look at the emotive, scathing way you wrote that post that got banned.

My answer:
The reason that we are respecting investors' positions is that the 2500 BTC is a limit, not a requirement. We could've just made the amount indefinite, but instead we limited it, because an unlimited ITO is almost certain to be followed with a selloff. So because it's a limit, we create conditions where the price is likely to rise higher after the ITO.

Secondly (and more importantly), the 2500 BTC is not demanded from the market, it's just there for people to take if they want some. If the market doesn't want all the funds, we'll provably destroy the rest. Do you see that this means that the market is free to work out the value of Blocknet tokens, and is not forced or coerced in any way by the limit?


If the market is not deep enough to swallow 2500 BTC even by destroying the rest, unsold part after the ITO has ended, it would cause panic as the demand has dried up. 2500 BTC or infinite amount is exactly the same if the market cannot swallow the whole pie.
The only way is to either lower the supply so that the demand will be higher, or put a buy wall after the ITO.
Under-subscribed IPOs are typically very bad investments.
sr. member
Activity: 462
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Would you consider putting a buy wall after the ITO if it gets sold out? Assuming that 2500 BTC will be raised, and as you have stated you don't need that much funds to develop the BlockNet, so maybe you should consider a buy wall = 2500BTC - minimum required funds?
legendary
Activity: 1190
Merit: 1000
To commodify ethicality is to ethicise the market
@Revelation, your post history is a stream of abuse and negativity.

You pretty much just don't post constructive, respectful things.

Kindly be civil or leave this thread.



@Revelation - I would recommend this thread if you want to speak objectively, not be censored & have the audience of the entire altcoin section rather than just those who frequent the XC thread.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/xcurrency-xc-blocknet-community-thread-830893


joebob999, it is deceitful to make out that revelation (or you, for that matter) is speaking "objectively".

It is not an issue of objectivity, for two reasons:

- revelation is being uncivil, not specifically untruthful. It's not a matter of objectivity but of respect for others.

- people have subjective viewpoints, not objective ones. So revelation couldn't "speak objectively" if he tried. He's not God.


Finally, you've behaved utterly awfully in the XC thread. Take this to heart, because it explains why Teka banned you from it.
You'd be fooling yourself if you think of yourself as a righteous and "objective" protester against "censorship". Get a grip.


You have deleted a single post of mine where I was commenting on your marketing and IPO strategy. I am concerned with your marketing approach and the amount effort you are putting into it. There is so little substance and so much hype atm. I am thinking of investing, however I am increasingly becoming concerned.
I just want a reply to the following statement:

Quote


How on Earth are you "respecting the possibility that hype could lead to overbought conditions during the ITO and prompt a selloff that harms investors"? You are trying to squeeze as much juice from investors as you can by offering huge IPO. You are NOT respecting the possibility of a selloff, you are creating that possibility with your enormous ceiling, 24h marketing and hype (and that fairytale story of 400-900% return). By doing this you are lowering post-ITO demand as investors that support you will be fully invested when the ITO ends.
Stop with the PR and marketing and bring some real development before the ITO.


Sure, I'll answer because I respect your question, but the way you ask it is deeply disrespectful to the people you're addressing. Just look at the emotive, scathing way you wrote that post that got banned.

My answer:
The reason that we are respecting investors' positions is that the 2500 BTC is a limit, not a requirement. We could've just made the amount indefinite, but instead we limited it, because an unlimited ITO is almost certain to be followed with a selloff. So because it's a limit, we create conditions where the price is likely to rise higher after the ITO.

Secondly (and more importantly), the 2500 BTC is not demanded from the market, it's just there for people to take if they want some. If the market doesn't want all the funds, we'll provably destroy the rest. Do you see that this means that the market is free to work out the value of Blocknet tokens, and is not forced or coerced in any way by the limit?

newbie
Activity: 35
Merit: 0
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And we're not interested in having a squabble, so you get booted out.

Which is why you have a circle jerk going on in your thread rather than productive discussion.  & you have a very critical public facing thread in the more visited area of the forums.

Gotta keep the circlejerk going to keep people from dumping.  But on the other hand - the issue of not actually accepting negativity has forced it elsewhere.  Which keeps new money out of XC.

Funny how I always look for unmoderated threads if I'm contemplating an altcoins legitimacy now.  Why would I come "alongside" a community?  Truth doesn't come alongside anybody.  It sits there like an elephant in the room and pisses people off as they howl in pain at lost retirement accounts while Enron drops form $200 a share to .20.

legendary
Activity: 1190
Merit: 1000
To commodify ethicality is to ethicise the market
Let me FTFY

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It's the position you take up against the community those who try to sell new ideas & without finished & proving existing projects.  You don't come alongside them, you talk at them. aren't nice to rainmakers trying to pad their own pockets with press releases and trendy buzzword rather than provable (opensource) substance.

Your situation is not helped by returning to your views on certain matters instead of discussing the point I made.

The issue is the position you take up against the community. You don't come alongside them, you talk at them.

If this is intentional, then you're at war.

And we're not interested in having a squabble, so you get booted out.
newbie
Activity: 35
Merit: 0
Let me FTFY

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It's the position you take up against the community those who try to sell new ideas & without finished & proving existing projects.  You don't come alongside them, you talk at them. aren't nice to rainmakers trying to pad their own pockets with press releases and trendy buzzword rather than provable (opensource) substance.

When people are trying to raise money for an IPO involving (some) scamcoins - pardon my skepticism and lack of constructive criticism. 

Open source the project you took premine money for.  Bulletproof it, make it multi platform.  And you'll find me less of an antagonist.

Try to raise a million dollars money by joining shitcoins + scamcoins + one or two legit coins when you refuse to open source your current project?  Yeah ... sorry.  I'll be honest about how I feel.
legendary
Activity: 1190
Merit: 1000
To commodify ethicality is to ethicise the market
I read much marketing meaningless babble (like "the internet of blockchains"), but not much subtance or technical details...

could you please explain for one use case, from the beginning to the end, how would this work?
e.g. let's say I want to send money using SMS, a feature from XST, while I hold some other thing, let's say APEX. Coins would be automagically exchanged? how? what currency does the service provider receive? can the receiver of the SMS receive other currency than XST? how?

the xbridge api would have a method for each possible service? so it would have to be updated every time a new service is added... otherwise... how would it work?

Is the coding of the exchange and the xbridge api finished? When would this be deployed? right after the ITO?

thanks!

Hey hey

Have you checked out the FAQ below the OP?

The XBridge is a protocol. There's only one XBridge.

The API supports a general-purpose application platform. Ultimately there aren't that many fundamental actions to code for. Their composites would specify a very wide range of potential applications. That said, no doubt the API will go through revisions from time to time, and more or less indefinitely, as technology advances.

Part of the XBridge code is done. But only part. The exchange is not done (though in reality I suspect there'll be multiple decentralised exchanges all competing to offer their services).


As for your SMS example, it would depend to a large extent on however XST code it, but here's a sketch:
Let's say you owe APEX.
And you want to SMS some APEX over to someone.
Your node would pay an XST node for the service, using APEX.
The APEX would be automatically exchanged for XST.
The XST node receive the XST and keep it as profit.
The XST node would pay the Blocknet microfee.
The XST node would take phone number you're sending the amount to.
It would send the amount in XST (because the SMS system is built on the XST blockchain).
The recipient node would receive the XST.
The recipient node would then convert the XST to APEX using the decentralised exchange.
The resulting APEX would then be sent to the recipient's APEX node.

If you're wondering how decentralised exchange works, this speculative post could turn into an interesting discussion.
sr. member
Activity: 462
Merit: 250
@Revelation, your post history is a stream of abuse and negativity.

You pretty much just don't post constructive, respectful things.

Kindly be civil or leave this thread.



@Revelation - I would recommend this thread if you want to speak objectively, not be censored & have the audience of the entire altcoin section rather than just those who frequent the XC thread.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/xcurrency-xc-blocknet-community-thread-830893


joebob999, it is deceitful to make out that revelation (or you, for that matter) is speaking "objectively".

It is not an issue of objectivity, for two reasons:

- revelation is being uncivil, not specifically untruthful. It's not a matter of objectivity but of respect for others.

- people have subjective viewpoints, not objective ones. So revelation couldn't "speak objectively" if he tried. He's not God.


Finally, you've behaved utterly awfully in the XC thread. Take this to heart, because it explains why Teka banned you from it.
You'd be fooling yourself if you think of yourself as a righteous and "objective" protester against "censorship". Get a grip.


You have deleted a single post of mine where I was commenting on your marketing and IPO strategy. I am concerned with your marketing approach and the amount effort you are putting into it. There is so little substance and so much hype atm. I am thinking of investing, however I am increasingly becoming concerned.
I just want a reply to the following statement:

Quote


How on Earth are you "respecting the possibility that hype could lead to overbought conditions during the ITO and prompt a selloff that harms investors"? You are trying to squeeze as much juice from investors as you can by offering huge IPO. You are NOT respecting the possibility of a selloff, you are creating that possibility with your enormous ceiling, 24h marketing and hype (and that fairytale story of 400-900% return). By doing this you are lowering post-ITO demand as investors that support you will be fully invested when the ITO ends.
Stop with the PR and marketing and bring some real development before the ITO.
legendary
Activity: 1190
Merit: 1000
To commodify ethicality is to ethicise the market
A very clear vision of the Blocknet's market positioning in terms of the Nash Equilibrium, from the XC thread:

Let me explain it in "human" terms, imagine that you have a city. In that city there are several shops. Some are shady, some have a good renommé. One of the shops with a good renommé decides that it is gonna build a mall. The shop invites other shops with a good renommé to join him in this shopping mall, but only shops that he can vouch for.
To fund the building of this shopping mall he creates shares. The shares are entitled to rent, in this case the shops decides that rent should be a small % of revenue.

You might have heard this in your local paper, but do you know what happens to the other shops in a city where there is build a mall? They DIE. People will go where they have options, that is the primus motor of capitalism OPTIONS/Choice.

So will the BlockNET benefit XC? BlockNET will enable the average consumer that is new to bitcoin to flirt with altcoin services all in one safe place. (like an android market or iStore).

Will BlockNET take away from XC development time? It has been stated that Xbridge is build on XC-tech, in that case most of the developement is already done.

Will BlockNET be a good investment? That depends on if someone will buy at a higher price that you did, like with everything else. But it also depends on how much "rent" it can cash in.

Will XC benefit from BlockNET? Yes! where is the money?! in the app-stores or in the non-legit apps for your phone? Ever wondered why restaurants and barber shops are so close to each other? Hotellings law(Nash equilibrium) is part of that why, but also because they benefit each other by making the customers first choice easy, where should i go shop? after that the question is, what am I in the mood for.

It is not the Product that is being sold, it is the problem that is being provided a solution to, it is all about enhancing the customer experience.

/end rant

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