I believe now, especially coupled with FinCen's latest ruling, that Blocknet's nature puts it ahead of other public offering styled events. It being fully decentralized (not having any set of core coins, which I admit I argued against before the FinCen ruling ), and lack of trust on one single team(It's composed of a large set of different decentralized coins), makes it an even better contender than Supenet was.
Every coin in SuperNET is a 'core' coin. There's no practical difference in this regard between the two systems.
BTCD?
TL;DR BTCD is technically equivalent to every other coin, but since all the developers from BTCD+jl777 are currently working on making the first reference implementation of SuperNET part of BTCD it makes it seem like it's exclusive to BTCD. When in fact the situation is almost perfectly analogous to how XC and atcsecure are providing Xbridge and Xmixers to Blocknet. So BTCD and XC are 'special' in the sense that they provide critical technology, but are not 'above' any other coin in their respective networks. Same goes for NXT and NHZ, both will be provided the asset exchange tech for SuperNET and Blocknet.
From my post earlier in this thread:
I got a little bit more information regarding the first two points we were discussing yesterday:
The issue here is that jl777 and the other BTCD devs have all been working on implementing libjl777 which I think is analogous to Xbridge in this case and BTCD is just the first reference implementation. But the idea behind libjl777 is that it's supposed to be implemented in to every coin in superNET. Right now that's BBR, VRC, BITS, NXT, BTCD (all equal memebers but providing different technology or assets). Each developer of coins in superNET will eventually add libjl777, but for now the attention is focused on getting it in to BTCD first. Crypto_Zoidberg the lead dev for BBR only just started talking with jl777 about integration last week, so it's probably going to be a little while. But every coin is supposed to be equal, even though it may seem like BTCD is special, it's only really special in the sense that it has a bunch of people working full time and testing at the moment making it the first implementation of superNET. And of course in the same way that XC is meant to provide its mixers BTCD provides teleport. But BTCD isn't a necessary condition for someone to use superNET. The majority of people might end up using BTCD as their 'gateway' to superNET in a similar way that XC people would presumably hope that people will be using XC as a their coin of choice when using Blocknet.
Also, from what I can understand everyone person running superNET is equal and node and there's no particular server(other than each node being a "server" in the p2p sense) so I unless I'm missing something I would expect that to qualify as true p2p considering there are no central servers.
Personally, I don't think you need to justify Blocknet anyway based on those contrasting points you were using. A good idea is a good idea. And a new implementation of the same concept with a different network of coins should be sufficient in my opinion.
Quote from: jl777
every SuperNET node becomes one via libjl777, I made a reference implementation of a SuperNET node:
jl777 [03:33]
//
// main.c
// libtest
//
// Created by jl777 on 8/13/14.
// Copyright (c) 2014 jl777. MIT License.
//
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include "SuperNET.h"
...code...
jl777 [03:35]
The SuperNET_start call and the broadcast/narrowcast are how it is integrated into a coin
jl777 [03:35]
BTCD has done this already
jl777 [03:35]
also every SuperNET node is a "server" and a private node, both
jl777 [03:33]
//
// main.c
// libtest
//
// Created by jl777 on 8/13/14.
// Copyright (c) 2014 jl777. MIT License.
//
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include "SuperNET.h"
...code...
jl777 [03:35]
The SuperNET_start call and the broadcast/narrowcast are how it is integrated into a coin
jl777 [03:35]
BTCD has done this already
jl777 [03:35]
also every SuperNET node is a "server" and a private node, both
The issue here is that jl777 and the other BTCD devs have all been working on implementing libjl777 which I think is analogous to Xbridge in this case and BTCD is just the first reference implementation. But the idea behind libjl777 is that it's supposed to be implemented in to every coin in superNET. Right now that's BBR, VRC, BITS, NXT, BTCD (all equal memebers but providing different technology or assets). Each developer of coins in superNET will eventually add libjl777, but for now the attention is focused on getting it in to BTCD first. Crypto_Zoidberg the lead dev for BBR only just started talking with jl777 about integration last week, so it's probably going to be a little while. But every coin is supposed to be equal, even though it may seem like BTCD is special, it's only really special in the sense that it has a bunch of people working full time and testing at the moment making it the first implementation of superNET. And of course in the same way that XC is meant to provide its mixers BTCD provides teleport. But BTCD isn't a necessary condition for someone to use superNET. The majority of people might end up using BTCD as their 'gateway' to superNET in a similar way that XC people would presumably hope that people will be using XC as a their coin of choice when using Blocknet.
Also, from what I can understand everyone person running superNET is equal and node and there's no particular server(other than each node being a "server" in the p2p sense) so I unless I'm missing something I would expect that to qualify as true p2p considering there are no central servers.
Personally, I don't think you need to justify Blocknet anyway based on those contrasting points you were using. A good idea is a good idea. And a new implementation of the same concept with a different network of coins should be sufficient in my opinion.
Thanks for clarifying
Morning all
Hmm... point broadly accepted, but:
- Dan is not providing Xmixer tech to the Blocknet. That's an XC feature only.
- There are no plans for development of the XBridge to run on XC first. It's not an analogous situation to BTCD.
There is no "internet of blockchains" if one coin has superordinate status over another. This would be like one website having superordinate status over others.
It's great to hear that BTCD's position is temporary BTW.
On the other hand, the SuperNET runs on NXT's blockchain and as far as I know that can't change. This could be a problem.
