Few brightest minds in cryptography proposed how data archiving could be incentivized and used instead of Proof-of-Work via Proof-of-Retrievability http://www.coindesk.com/cryptocurrency-mining-help-archive-societys-important-data/ (academic paper: http://cs.umd.edu/~amiller/permacoin.pdf ). Unfortunately, no open-sourced implementations of the Permacoin proposal are known to the moment.
To overcome this, Scorex devs(in partnership with IOHK) have implemented Permacoin implementation in the form of Scorex module. We have a plan to launch a public testnet in coming days.
Let's overcome IPOs fever and hack around blockchain for the sake of progress with Scorex! Attacks on consensus protocol are welcome.
Please join us by running nodes, attacking the consensus protocol, contributing to the code.
Maillist to be launched in next few days.
Github: https://github.com/ConsensusResearch/Scorex-Lagonaki
Acknowledgement: we would like to thank IOHK (new project of Charles Hoskinson et al, http://iohk.io/) for sponsorship, Andrew Miller for answering questions on Permacoin.
