3.BM began to write blog

BM taking poorly about projects that I support made me dump a bunch.

Now that BitShares is launched a lot of the hype is gone. Maybe need something else to look forward too?

Which is why we spent a great deal of time developing Metadisk. A decentralized application that we run most of the core code on. Solves two problems:

1) Allows us to have reward full nodes because they have an application built on top of them
2) The nodes can cache the DHT

Because the nodes also may have the file, you can submit multiple queries to multiple nodes. Obviously they would want to return a result as quickly as possible, as being the fastest would probably mean they also get to get paid for transferring the file to you.

I'm interested interested in using Bitshares because we can use the platform to create pegged digital commodities. While Storjcoin is a deflationary cryptocurrency, increasing in worth as the network expands it might be useful to have something like a BitGB.

Therefore I can purchase a BitGB, and use it in the application knowing that it will always be worth 1 GB of space.

He/she seems to have mastered the ad hominem argument. Its hilarious.

Anyways. DPOS seems like an interesting thing to look into. Not sure it would be the best fit for our early blockchain(extra complexity>needed features), but it might be useful in other ways.

I think it however be quite useful when we scale this up to compute. You could use DPOS as the basis for a quorum to have a good structure for trustless computing, without jumping into Turing complete blockchains or zero-knowledge proofs.

We store the file metadata including hash and location on the blockchain, is one of the primary reasons.

@super3  FYI, our primary blockchain security model is now DPOS, not TAPOS. Might be appropriate for storj, might not be, but check it out.

Any DAC that has massive data storage requirements might be able to take advantage of storj, especially if there was a canonical way to verify the storj chain that could be built into our clients.

Ok, I guess I'm a little behind. Any progress on TAPOS?

Well you could just put the hash identifier for the data in your chain. Does your DPOS have any metadata fields? Just need enough space for a hash.

I have to say I'm a little disappointing by the FUD. Want to hear my side of the story?

we never owned it and super3 was surprisingly unresponsive

I worked for Invictus as a freelancer around Winter 2013. I was off on winter break and had a bunch of extra time to work on Bitcoin stuff. I worked on all of the Invictus web stuff including protoshares.net and invictus.io. They had a very poor web presence, and it looked pretty bad to people who were interested in our platform. It was practically an emergency.

Bytemaster agreed to pay me my standard freelance rates, and I started working. I worked as hard as possible working 16+ hour days 7 days a week trying to get two websites up to par including advertising it myself. Invictus started using my in development websites because they were better than current stuff. I reduced my bill by 1/3 for and Dan paid for the hours I did so far. The agreement was would be still be eligible for the website bounty, and Invcitus was paying me for site because they were currently using it and showing it to users and investors.

Got to a workable version of the website, and Dan decided that he didn't want to pay out the bounty for the Invictus website I completed. Invictus continued to use the website for a time without paying being for either the bounty, or the hours I completed after the payment for initial hours for the protoshares website and start of the invictus website.

Dan wanted me to drop of of college to work with Invictus. I almost took it, but decided to finish because I only had a semester left. I made it clear that I couldn't work on Invictus web stuff, AND do class work everyday. I was unresponsive because I was doing class, and working on other paid projects. I graduate in 3 weeks from Morehouse College with a Bachelors degree in Computer Science. I'm pretty happy with the choices I've made.

Am I mad about anything? Absolutely not. I learned a ton about Bitcoin, an still am an Bitshares supporter. I also learned you should always make written agreements even with people you trust. I don't think anyone acted in bad faith, but miscommunication definitely left some sour feelings.

I transferred all domains except invictus.io(which I still have yet to be paid for the work that I did). The entire time Dan had access to all web servers, and code for the websites.

So if you want me to transfer invictus.io just honor the agreement that I made with Gregory months ago.