I have been following this project from the very beginning; about 1 and a half years ago. The recent comments on here are way off. I read everything past to present, and they are clearly cherry picking small pieces of convo and using them out of context. Everything is out there on internet archive sites. Read all of it. Nobody is hiding facts about Lannister. There are posts on our main site.
Talk is cheap.
The fact is Elastic has a working prototype. That is more to offer than any other ICO. All "donators", or whatever, are free to claim their XEL. Everything worked out. Commenters are bringing up points from over a year ago before a working prototype exists. Back then, I could understand, but now? It makes no sense. This coin is coming to market with a working prototype.
It's a decentralized super-computer. Prior to this project, scientists and engineers would have to tie together VPS instances and use something like hadoop. This technology makes that market obsolete. Hadoop and Data Science are thriving right now, and this project completely disrupts those fields. It's amazing.
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This project is a decentralized super computer. It disrupts the current, hot field of Data Science. You know, where people with a 6-week boot camp under their belts are getting paid 6 figures.
Previously, scientists, engineers, and researchers would have to tie together Linux VPS instances and then run hadoop over their closed network. This project completely disrupts the expensive web services industry. Looking at you Amazon, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, etc.
What's great is, unlike say data storage, our field is full of users who are already technically inclined. So, getting acclimated to Elastic will be a easier than even AWS.
This project is going to crush it.
I have said all year. I think the Wallet was the right move and obviously we are getting attention. The good will out weight the bad in this area.
I also think timelines and any sort of demands onto open-source devs is wildly stupid. Completely illogical.
I thank you guys so much for keeping this project alive. We're there. The trolls aren't going to stop. Tune them out. I can totally get why you are anon now. So many haters. It was a smart move.
Pop some champagne. Take a vaca. Congrats. This project hasn't even begun to get exciting. In two years, it will be amazing. Big companies will adopt us. Market data is bigger every day. We will be powering the AI and Neural networks that run recommendation systems. That's where the market is guys. Fucking awesome.
Those are just some of my thoughts on where this tech will land. But it really is limitless.
I have already worked at Global Fortune 100 companies, whose work stations are merely monitors that plug into a central server. There is not an actual desktop.
That central server could very well be the Elastic.
There are any number of awesome win scenarios. We own decentralized computing. That is outrageous.