Topic: [PRE-ANN][ZEN][Pre-sale] Zennet: Decentralized Supercomputer - Official Thread - page 9. (Read 57056 times)

There are probably many answers to this.  The "big one" of course is that AWS is not a free market.  Amazon holds something like a monopoly, and fixes their pricing as they see fit.

Zennet offers the same infrastructure technologies that AWS does but with price negotiation.  It enforces competition.


I strongly disagree!  Because AWS "prices out" those poor kids in Africa and Zennet allows for open exchange there is an opportunity here for those kids that amazon can never (or would never?) realistically offer.  Zennet would even allow for some provider to choose to *donate* overflow cycles to those poor kids.


In the end it will likely do both, but only on some fronts.  It will compete for HPC business, and will disrupt for pricing of highly elastic but continual workload.  Remember that AWS and Zennet serve different-but-overlapping use cases, so there are some applications for which AWS will always be the better choice and for which zennet will neither compete nor disrupt.  It will never be able to attempt to compete on availability assurances and will never be able to attempt to disrupt Amazon's advanced, high-level I/O facilities.  (Because this is simply not something it "can intend" to disrupt in a meaningful way.)

It is a competitor, but not a direct competitor.  It is a disruption, but not a total disruption.

Source? Can you provide more details on this?

Distributed computing is the future and Zennet is a leader in this field.
We're with ya!!
 - ken

My question is why do you think we need a decentralized Amazon web services? What are you trying to solve with this project? I believe it would be more powerful if say a poor kid in Isreal had an idea and that such a service was available. Or For that class room in Africa and others like it all over the world that do not have the computer power needed to study X technology. I think what the spirit of Bitcoin has is what is missing in Zencoin. Understand what I mean?

This should be disrupting companies like Amazon web services not competing with them. I feel there is a difference.

Anyway, having said all that. Besides the business model, I think what you are building is awesome.

Best of luck.

Thank you for your kind offer.
I will get our crypto developer involved in it.

Hi Ohad

I am very pleased that you have a project like this. As a firm believer of DPOS. It is well fitted for the project to use the technology Dan and the rest of Invictus have developed. The transaction time itself is blazingly fast and its confirmation. I'll be watching this project and to whatever you guys chose to adapt as to what blockchain technology is concerned, anything goes. As long as I would be happy to be part of this.

Not at all.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9415127

another storj?

I'll be very glad for a deep discussion on the coin's algo. In particular, I'd like to see you fighting with the anti-DPoS guys
I didn't find yet alternative to DPoS that is 'less worse'.

Now I recall that HMC found some kind of vulnerability in DPoS. He calls it the "kill switch": an ability of the genesis block generator to erase the whole chain and restart it.

Nice!
Note that such a mesh can be implemented over Zennet.
Zennet gives you almost nothing but bare metals.

BTW, are you still questioning why not BTC?

I'm sure it's to late as of now but just in case this OS may provide some help in development.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs

The official launch date will be published ahead of time.
it will be in the OP and on major website in order for everyone to have a fair opportunity to participate. 

We will read here when the pre sale start?
Plz write in op too!

I did not see this when I made my last post. This is another reason to lean towards DPoS. If there is no inflation, how will you be able to pay PoW miners to secure the block chain? All coins currently do this in the form of inflation as a block reward.

I will repeat huntercrafterminers wishes not to turn this into a Dpos vs PoW debate, although I disagree with him on a few things. A NaS attack is pretty much impossible on DPoS among other things, but I digress.. I hope you are still considering some form of PoS. Here is a really good write up describing possible attack vectors of DPoS and comparing it to PoW.. I will just leave the link here. https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=6638.0

Considering the target market place it should level to that price. So find a discussion on 51% with AWS and you will find what you are looking for.

 I can use this to 51% attack other coins. Has this been discussed?

Didn't start yet. Legal people need more time.
You won't miss it when it'll begin, it'll be very clear here

Has the presale started? if so how much BTC were raised so far?

For this first presale, Bitcoin only.

For interested investors, since this is a pre-sale, What currency/s will be accepted for tokens?