Akash Network x Satoshi Club AMA Recap from 23th of August

The financial revolution driven by crypto-currencies has advanced exponentially in recent months and the world is highly interested in this type of market that has come to remain. Today we would like to tell you about the AMA session with our friends from Akash Network. The AMA took place on August 23 and our guests were Greg Osuri (Founder & CEO) and Cheng (CFO).

The total reward pool was $2200 and it was splitted into three parts.

In this AMA Recap we will try to summarize some of the most interesting points for you.


PART 1, INTRODUCTION AND COMMUNITY QUESTIONS

Irina K.| @Satoshi_Club: Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of our AMA series. Today we have as our guests @gosuri and @Chenghiskhan from Akash Network. Welcome guys and thanks for joining us. 😊

Cheng: Good morning! It is a pleasure to be here with you.

Greg Osuri | Akash : Hey everyone! Glad to be here.

Irina K.| @Satoshi_Club: For the beginning please share a few words about yourself and about Akash Network, how did you get to be involved in this project.

Greg Osuri | Akash: My contributions to cloud computing include designing multi-cloud capability for Kubernetes in 2015, which is currently in use by 80% of the Cloud. With economics, I gained notoriety in academic circles with my paper on Bootstrapping markets by borrowing from the future for which I’m invited to teach a Stanford class.

I got started with Crypto in late 2015. Technical first and then economical. As a distributed systems engineer, the permissionless state synchronization component of blockchain was very attractive to me as I was actively involved in planetary scalable systems at that time. As an economist, the ability to test economic theory at a micro-level was fascinating.

Cheng: Good morning once again. I got officially involved back in March. I’m Cheng Wang, the CFO of Akash. My background is in traditional finance where I spent a good amount of time (7ish year of my time) in the investment banking industry. I moved to the crypto/blockchain world roughly 3 years ago and loving every second of it.

There are so many things that drew me to Akash, but I can distill it down to two primary factors: our team and our opportunity. The team is one of the best that I’ve had the pleasure of working with and the opportunity to build something truly useful and transformative is 🤤🔥.

Irina K. | @satoshi_club: You have a great carrer. Congrats.

Tell us a few words about Akash for our viewers. What is it and how did you get here?

Greg Osuri | Akash: Cloud infrastructure — the back bone of the Internet — is increasingly becoming centralized, controlled by an oligopoly of four companies (Amazon’s AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft’s Azure and Alibaba).

The mission of Akash is to break this oligopoly using a decentralized network of computing clusters (data centers), and offering resources in a peer-to-peer marketplace to build resilient and unstoppable applications at 10X to 15X less than what you would pay in the market today. The cloud infrastructure market is projected to be $223-billion by 2023.

My love for free market and hate for oligopolies drove me to build Akash.

Irina K. | @satoshi_club: So you started with your heart 😊? Thank you for your introductions guys.

Q1 from Bitcointalk User Estrange18

There are already many projects in the storage or super-computer space like SONM, GOlem, Siacoin, Storj etc. What’s make AKASH different from them? Or what AKASh advantages in that ecosystem?

Greg Osuri | Akash: Great question. Akash Network focuses on general cloud computation and we are partnering with decentralized storage providers, such as [Storj](https://storj.io/)  and FileCoin.

Akash Network is positioned to be a Super-Cloud gateway for developers, ensuring seamless access to other strong projects out there, like NuCypher, DNS, and more.

Irina K. | @Satoshi_club: So the focus is on computing. Do you plan on covering other areas in the future? Like storage for example?

Greg Osuri | Akash: Thats right. Akash does not plan on offering storage but rather interoperate with other protocols. IMO, that’s a way better way for the future instead of everyone trying to do everything.

Greg Osuri | Akash: Also, to add to my answer on Golem etc. Other projects in the cloud infrastructure space, like Dfinity and Golem, they are both in the same industry as as Akash, *Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)*, but our go-to-market is fundamentally different for the $202B industry. Golem and Dfinity’s market size is less than $300-million.

Golem has on-chain computing and is essentially a supercomputer, which requires supercomputer problems. The market size for that is relatively very small compared to ours, which is $202B. How many applications do you know require supercomputers to run? Dfinity focuses more on smart contracts. Their PoS improves the throughput of executions but there are limitations to smart contracts. We’ve been seeing Dfinity move closer towards Akash’s model, but haven’t looked too deeply at their source code.

Irina K. | @Satoshi_club: Could you tell us more about your go-to-market? Whom do you see as your regular user?

Greg Osuri | Akash: Our GTM is focused on users currently using the big Cloud. Any application that runs on AWS can run on Akash with very little switching cost. By switching to Akash, a developer can leverage the benefits on Decentralization without sacrificing performance. Our market focus is Big Data / ML but we’re seeing a ton of interest from DeFi applications, particularly Stateless and State-lite frontends.

Q2 from Bitcointalk User k.muller

Where are your servers located? How many servers for backup do you have? Does it function like for normal clouds of google, apple or is it decentralized?

Greg Osuri | Akash: Everywhere and nowhere. Akash’s servers are globally distributed. From large datacenters (Equinix, Packet, etc) to home computers like Akash Supermini (http://akash.network/supermini). Akash provides the same experience a normal cloud provides.

Irina K. | @Satoshi_club:

Would it run on mobile devices as well? Like phones?

Greg Osuri | Akash: Theoretically yes. Akash is a decentralized marketplace where if there is a buyer for mobile power computing, you can sell that to make money as provider. But I highly doubt if you can make any meaning for income as a mobile phone provider on Akash.Not too many web-scale applications can run well on a mobile phone.

Irina K. | @Satoshi_club: Understood. Thank you for the clarification.

Q3 from Telegram User @marccryptonic

You claim that your cloud services are 90% cheaper than the market. How did you come up with this number? What is the price of your competitors in the market and what is yours?

Cheng: So there are TWO primary mechanisms that help drive down the costs relative to traditional pricing. First, the Akash Network is tapping into latent supply that wouldn’t otherwise be available, which drives down costs by about 2-3x. Second, and more interestingly, is the Akash subsidy, which further drives down costs further (more than 10x). You can learn more about the Akash subsidy mechanics here: https://dcs.akash.network/spec/dcs-9

Irina K. | @Satoshi_club: Who’s covering this subsidy? Made through inflation. Nice move. Saw it now at the link.

Cheng: Great question. The subsidy is covered by Akash’s inflationary mechanism. You can think of this as borrowing from the future. https://akash.network/blog/bootstrapping-a-free-market-by-borrowing-from-the-future/

Irina K. | @Satoshi_club: Will this “subsidy” be a permanent feature? Or temporary, until you get enough market share?

Cheng: It is a temporary feature that will last approximately 80 years. 😎 The inflation will eventually subside at that point.

Q4 from Telegram User @phamtan310

What are the use cases of Akash Token? Do you have any plans to raise funds in the future? In what ways can users earn passive income from the Akash ecosystem?

Greg Osuri | Akash: The core for the native token AKT besides exchanging value is staking and governance. AKT introduces few economic innovations to the PoS ecosystem. First the notion of Take Income, meaning a consistent share of revenue from gross merchandise exchanged on the network. Second, AKT introduces a mechanism to organically adjust inflation to optimize price pressure, giving it relative stability value. More information is available on our economics whitepaper. https://akash-web-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/akash-econ.pdf

Q5 from Telegram User @pandasbitcoins

I am very excited about your supermini. The computer is very powerful. I hope I can get one! Please tell us more about it. In partnership with what hardware company are you producing it. Or are you assembling it with custom pieces by yourself. Also, is it designed for mining as well?

Cheng: The Akash Supermini is a plug and earn device that allows anyone, even non-technical users, to become Akash Cloud Providers! The Akash Supermini is currently going through its prototyping paces in the lab and we are working with an amazing hardware team to bring it to the hands of Akashians. The Supermini is designed and built in the state of California.

Irina K. | @satoshi_club: Does it need any configuration? Or I can just plug it into any computer at my office and it would work? 😃

Cheng: Some very, very light configuration, so it is easily manageable through your mobile device. The Supermini is a computer itself, so there’s no need to plug it into a computer; it just has to be plugged into the wall and connected to the internet in your home or office.

Irina K. | @satoshi_club: Oh, got it. What will the price be?

Cheng: The first 300 units Superminis are currently sold out, which were priced at $975. Please stay tuned for further developments as we bring the Supermini to market! Join the Supermini waitlist to keep up with the latest: https://akash.network/supermini/

Q6 from Telegram User @endtimeprophet

I discovered from study your site that I can play my part as a VALIDATOR, SO what’s the requirements as well as benefits for becoming a VALIDATOR?

Greg Osuri | Akash: Akash is permission-less so any AKT holder can validate and participate in Governance. To validate Akash blockchain, all you need is a cloud grade computer and some tokens. As as validator your income streams are a) inflationary rewards from self-delegated tokens, b) commission on inflationary rewards from delegated tokens, c) commission on take income from delegated tokens.

For a complete overview of earning potential, please see this blog post https://akash.network/blog/the-earning-potential-of-akash-token.  And ofcourse Akash Economics whitepaper for more details.


PART 2, TELEGRAM COMMUNITY LIVE QUESTIONS

The chat was open for 80 seconds; a lot of questions were posted by Satoshi Club community. Our guests chose some of them.

Q1 from Telegram User @Nickkiii

I’m a developer, and I’m interested in contributing to Akash Network, Do you have any Bug Bounty to check for vulnerabilities on your platform?

Greg Osuri | Akash: Absolutely, we’ll be distributing 5% of Genesis tokens for Bounties, please see our site for more info https://akash.network/challenge/

Also, please ping me on @akashnw after this AMA and I can direct you accordingly.

Q2 from Telegram User @adityaaryah

Thank you so much for changing the world for the better and can’t wait to see where Akash Network goes. So proud of you guys. Is there anything we, your community and biggest fans, can do to help AKASH NETWORK continue to succeed?

Cheng: Thank you for your support, belief, and passion! You, our Akashians, can help support the Akash Network by engaging with each other, directly with Akash by participating in AMAs just like this one, and telling your network and friends about us. Follow our twitter (https://twitter.com/akashnet_)  and join our telegram (https://t.me/AkashNW)  to get started :). Seeing supportive messages like this fuels the Akashian team even more!

Q3 from Telegram User @Samerjamai

Hi team! Will there be any incentives for moving the apps from Amazon’s AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure to Akash? How you gonna stimulate apps joining Akash? Thank you!

Cheng: There are two huge incentives. The first is price; it will be up to 10x cheaper to deploy on the Akash Cloud VS AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure, etc, so the economic incentive is very strong and compelling. The second is Akash’s focus on developer experience; Akash developers and our CEO, Greg, are obsessed with making Akash super developer-friendly, so that everything from deploying on the Akash cloud to the Akash UX will be world class.

Q4 from Telegram User @bountyairdrop2k19

When we use the services at Paltofrm Akash. What are the payment methods?

Greg Osuri | Akash: Akash has a multi-currency settlement system. Users can settle using AKT or any of the white listed tokens, usually stable coins.

Q5 from Telegram User @TVT6VI

DEFI is the hottest trend today. Has Akash had or will there be updates in the roadmap related to Akash? Trust and security is very important in any business, what makes investors, customer and users safe secure with privacy when working with Akash? In addition to raised fund from token sell. Where does Akash benefit from?

Cheng: DeFi is certainly the hottest thing in crypto right now and the Akash Supercloud is perfectly positioned as the decentralized cloud for decentralized finance! In the spirit of true decentralization, the Akash Supercloud will enable DeFi projects to decouple from the big cloud providers like AWS, Azure, Google, etc., reducing their costs and moving towards true decentralization and community empowerment. There will certainly be updates coming in the near future related to DeFi and so much more.

Q6 from Telegram User @Daptika

There are so many projects that only exist for a moment “die on the road, traumatizing investors with new projects”. Question: how can the Akash Network project survive, continue to grow & in what ways do you convince investors that this project is very promising?

Greg Osuri | Akash: Anyone with an operational kubernetes cluster can become an Akash provider with very little friction (usually within 20 minutes). Please visit this link for a thorough guide. https://github.com/ovrclk/docs/blob/a3cfd9a792f1a5455d7b06df9fab7a25d1e276b7/providers/kube/README.md

Q7 from Telegram User @lv_nlv

Do you have some sort of staking available for the $AKT tokens and what are the benefits of it to the investors?

Cheng: Staking will be available for all AKT tokens! For all AKT token holders, staking and the rewards associated with staking will be available and central to the network. Furthermore, the AKT token has a novel, never-before-seen element in crypto that gives the AKT token true, intrinsic value made possible by a take income. See our previous blog post here to learn more (https://akash.network/blog/the-earning-potential-of-akash-token/).

Q8 from Telegram User @eylem201

What is meant by Hybrid Cloud of Akash Network? What are its main Objectives of Hybrid system?

Greg Osuri | Akash: A hybrid cloud allows users to leverage advantages different clouds bring in a federated experience. The biggest benefit users of hybrid cloud realize is “no vender lock-in,” which in turn is presented as a cost benefit.

Q9 from Telegram User @bitgraile

What was the biggest milestone Akash Network had so far? Thank you.

Greg Osuri | Akash: Our biggest milestone is having enormous success in multiple testnets. At peak we had over 1800 applications deployed across 160 providers, with more memory than the entire EOS mainnet.

Q10 from Telegram User @NickOxa

How will Akash Network overcome the threat of centralization in the decentralized cloud computing marketplace?

Greg Osuri | Akash: We believe the future holds an opportunity for more distribution of datacenters versus the contemporary model of hyperscale deployments. Better distribution means lower network latency, which means faster applications. More distribution also means more decentralization.

Q11 from Telegram User @Idee01

Akash project plans for 2020 are: Mainnet launch, Liquidity Campaign and Platform launch. Q3 is almost over. Should we expect them in Q4? Can you give us an update of progress made to make us rest assured all these goals will be achieved in 2020?

Cheng: Make sure to follow Akahs on Twitter, Telegram, and DEFINITELY the Unstoppable Blog for updates.

Our July update can be found here: https://akash.network/blog/the-unstoppable-update-july-2020/. Previous updates are also memorialized in older posts so you can look back to see everything that was done. Akash’s goals for 2020 is just as you stated: Mainnet launch, Liquidity, and Platform launch. Our entire team is very much committed to these 2020 milestones and will be keeping you updated with all of our socials and blogs.

Q12 from Telegram User @chrisluna

How do you plan to spread awareness about your project in different countries where English is not spoken well? Do you have local communities for the them to let them better understand about your project?

Greg Osuri | Akash: Yes, Akash has already attracted a large global audience and have a validator community encompassing North America, South America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. In the past two months we’ve added teams in China and Russia to support our large audiences there, and we’re continuing to expand support to additional global regions. Most of our critical content is available in Chinese and Russian as well. We’re excited to announce additional global expansions and support in the coming months.

Serg | Satoshi Club: Thank you for joining our AMArathon! 😁 It was great. I really liked your project and we will continue to share your updates. We will encourage our community to join your group for updates.

Irina K.| @Satoshi_Club: Yes, we are here for 2 hours and 17 minutes. Thank you @Chenghiskhan and @gosuri for your time!

Cheng: Thank you Irina. To your team, the entire Satoshi Club community!

Greg Osuri | Akash: Thank you Serg for inviting us to connect with your amazing group. We’re very excited to announce our Mainnet plans with you all next week. 🙂


PART 3, QUIZ AND INFO

As usual, for the third part, Satoshi Club Team asked the chat 4 questions about Akash Network. A link to a Quiz form were sent into the chat. Participants had 10 minutes to answer. 1300$ were distributed among winners.

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AMA Satoshi Club x UniLayer, August 29th

We are pleased to announce our next AMA on August 29th 2020 at 02:00 PM UTC Time: Satoshi Club x UniLayer

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⚠️Total Reward pool: $600

⚠️Requirements:
👉 Join Satoshi Club Telegram group
👉 Join UniLayer Telegram group

We will have the following structure:

Part 1: 150$ /6 users – We’ll select 6 questions from the community. A user can post maximum 3 questions. 4 Questions will be selected from our website – please submit your questions in the comments section of this post. 2 Question will be selected from Bitcointalk thread.

Part 2: 150$/10 users – Open chat for 80 seconds. You can post Max 5 questions. UniLayer Team will select 10 questions and answer them.

Part 3: 300$ – A quiz about UniLayer

For more details:
UniLayer – @Unilayer
Satoshi Club – @satoshi_club
Russian – @satoshi_club_ru
Spanish – @satoshi_club_spanish

AMA Satoshi Club x Aleph.im, August 28th

We are pleased to announce our next AMA on August 28th 2020 at 03:00 PM UTC Time: Satoshi Club x Aleph.im

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⚠️Total Reward pool: 5000 ALEPH (≅1500$)

⚠️Requirements:
👉 Join Satoshi Club Telegram group
👉 Join Aleph.im Telegram group

We will have the following structure:

Part 1: 300$ /12 users – We’ll select 12 questions from the community. A user can post maximum 3 questions. 9 Questions will be selected from our website – please submit your questions in the comments section of this post. 3 Question will be selected from Bitcointalk thread.

Part 2: 300$/15 users – Open chat for 80 seconds. You can post Max 5 questions. Aleph.im Team will select 15 questions and answer them.

Part 3: 900$ – A quiz about Aleph.im

For more details:
Aleph.im – @alephim
Satoshi Club – @satoshi_club
Russian – @satoshi_club_ru
Spanish – @satoshi_club_spanish

AMA Satoshi Club x Vesta Protocol, August 28th

We are pleased to announce our next AMA on August 28th 2020 at 12:00 PM UTC Time: Satoshi Club x Vesta Protocol

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⚠️Total Reward pool: 500$

⚠️Requirements:
👉 Join Satoshi Club Telegram group
👉 Join Vesta Protocol Telegram group

We will have the following structure:

Part 1: 100$ /6 users – We’ll select 6 questions from the community. A user can post maximum 3 questions. 4 Questions will be selected from our website – please submit your questions in the comments section of this post. 2 Question will be selected from Bitcointalk thread.

Part 2: 100$/10 users – Open chat for 80 seconds. You can post Max 5 questions. Vesta Protocol Team will select 10 questions and answer them.

Part 3: 300$ – A quiz about Vesta Protocol

For more details:
Vesta Protocol – @vtp_network
Satoshi Club – @satoshi_club
Russian – @satoshi_club_ru
Spanish – @satoshi_club_spanish

RMPL x SatoshiClub AMA from 19 August

Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor. SatoshiClub does this work for you. And today we would like to tell you about the AMA session with our friends from RMPL. The AMA took place on August 19 and our guest was Carmela Donovan, Head of BD at RMPL.

The total reward pool was 2000$ and has been splitted in 3 parts.

In this AMA Recap we will try to summarise the most interesting points for you.

Part 1 — introduction and questions from the Telegram&Bitcointalk community

Serg | Satoshi Club: Hello! Our guests today are from @RMPLTG . Welcome to Satoshi Club!

Irina K. | @satoshi_club: @Slammyz welcome to Satoshi Club 😊Thank you for joining us

How are you? How is your day?

Carmela: Thanks Irina and Serg! Happy to be on with Satoshi Club today! We are huge fans of your community. We are doing great, just getting started with the day for me here in the US. What about you all?

Serg | Satoshi Club: We are glad to have you here 🙂 thank you for your kind words 😊We are great as well 🙂 Please introduce yourself and the project.

Carmela: I’m Carmela Donovan, Head of BD at RMPL.
I am an entrepreneur with 8 years of expertise in founding and running FinTech, AdTech, and Artificial Intelligence startups, bringing this experience now to RMPL.
$RMPL is a decentralized (ERC20) cryptocurrency with an elastic supply model. $RMPL reaches a supply-price equilibrium with its randomized rebasing. As a result, the volatility is in the token supply, not the price. A holder’s ownership of the network always remains the same, as wallet balances are globally altered in proportion to changes in demand.

$RMPL is designed to eventually reach a stable price of $1 (+CPI inflation). For that to happen the marketcap needs to be way higher than it is now. To get closer to $1, rebasing is introduced. This means, when the price is above $1.05 and a rebase happens, the total supply is increased. Every holder has now more $RMPL which, theoretically, should increase the selling pressure and drive the price closer to $1. The higher the price is, the higher is the rebase percentage. If the price is below $0.95 the supply is decreased and buying pressure should drive the price up closer to $1 again.

Serg | Satoshi Club: Interesting concept 🙂 we will discuss more about this in the next questions 🙂

Irina K. | @satoshi_club: That’s interesting 🙂 are there any other projects that have an elastic supply model? @slammyz all good?

Carmela: Indeed, recently we have seen a lot of innovative work in elastic supply tokens.
We give a lot of credit to one of our competitors, Ampleforth for paving the way for the elastic supply market.
One of our inspirations for RMPL actually came from witnessing how badly investors were impacted by the flaws in AMPL.

Irina K. | @satoshi_club: nice. Thanks for explaining. In part 1 we have questions from the community. Whenever you’re ready, we’ll start with Q1 😊

Carmela: Fire away 🙂

Q1 from bitcointalk user pedronino

I didn’t quite understand your random and unpredictable mechanism. What are its strong points and how does it help your project?

Carmela: As is said the main problem with existing elastic solutions, is the manipulation around the rebase time. You can clearly see that the price fluctuates heavily around the rebase everyday because everyone, and worst of all bots know exactly when the next rebase is.
With randomization we can solve this problem as it is unpredictable.
In our current solution we are working with a script in the back end. This script is running constantly and triggers the rebase function when an “if” statement is true depending on random number generators based on probability distributions. This is completely automated and random. Nobody can predict the timing of the rebase or take advantage of it.
We know that this is not a truly trustless solution and that’s why we are developing another contract called “rebaser.sol”.
We are moving and evolving into a fully on chain random version in the coming weeks, we’re working with a highly respected mathematician to evolve what we have started to become better and more trusted. You can find a full documentation about the contract on our github: https://github.com/rmpldefiteam/rmpl

One of our key values at RMPL is creating a safe environment for investors, that is free from market manipulation.

Serg | Satoshi Club: I have a question: why would you want to keep the price stable with such a complex algorithm? Why not just create a stable coin?

Carmela: One of the issues with existing stable coins that we address is through CPI adjustment for inflation, as well as the ability to organically drive stability by an ever-increasing marketcap. The way we can continue upward momentum in the marketcap is by the rebasing factor, and by incentivizing investors to hold through the ecosystem that we are building around RMPL.

Irina K. | @satoshi_club: You also need much less liquidity with this model, right?

Carmela: Correct, the elastic model corrects for price deviations naturally, without the need for arbitrage, and protected against inflation.

Serg | Satoshi Club: Thank you for explaining this Carmela. It is clear for me now 🙂

Q2 from bitcointalk user jpsarma

I read RMPL Github that says that it will rebase RMPL to a price target of $1.00 USD with a CPI adjustment. But the current price is $0.34. Can you explain how the CPI adjustment works that will bring the price to the target and how does it differ from Ampleforth?

Carmela: A randomized, curved lag factor is used to calculate supply increases and decreases when a rebase happens. The curve allows supply to increase at a faster rate when the total market cap is low. The lag factor depends on the total supply. the higher the supply is, the higher is the possible lag factor. Minimum is 6 and maximum is 14. For those of you that are interested in the details, here is an example of our calculation for a rebase.


(current price – base target price) * wallet balance / (base target price * lag factor)


At a price of $1.30, lag factor 10.00, the updated wallet balance would be adjusted by: (1.30 – 1) * 100 / (1 * 10) = 3

The new wallet balance would be 103 $RMPL.

At a price of $0.76, lag factor 8.00, the updated wallet balance would be adjusted by:

(0.76 – 1) * 100 / (1 * 8) = -3

The new wallet balance would be: 97 RMPL.

In this way, we can converge to the target price through elastic supply adjustments.

Serg | Satoshi Club: I feel like in the math class 😁

Carmela: Haha yes, the magic behind the scenes is what makes the world go around. I personally have a background in mathematics, so I quite enjoy getting into the weeds sometimes :sweat_smile:

Serg | Satoshi Club: Wow, that is great. To be honest, it wasn’t the class I liked the most in school 😁

Carmela: For me too, the appreciation came later when I could put it to good use, building great tools like RMPL!

Q3 from Telegram user @ion_cristescu

Please explain how is the rebase function happening and what are the benefits? Where should I hold the funds?

Carmela: The rebase function is applied on-chain, one of the benefits is that investors own a percentage of the network, so as our marketcap grows, even if the price stays at the target price, the value of their ownership grows with the marketcap of the coin.
For holding the funds, its as simple as holding them in any ERC wallet. All adjustments are made automatic!

Irina K. | @satoshi_club: What benefits does owning the network bring?

Carmela: One of the biggest advantages is for long term holders. The longer you hold the higher your rebase rewards get as your holdings gain compounding interest.
Additionally, we have some major developments coming up that will allow holders to leverage their tokens in our ecosystem.

Q4 from Telegram user @iulya_i

Why is the team anonymous? Don’t you think that in order to gain the trust of the community/investors everything should be public?

Carmela: We are upfront about our experience and involvement. Our CEO Blue is a well known member of the crypto community for quite some time, as well as a large part of our development team.
We could build fake LinkedIn profiles if that would change how much you trust the team, but we think it’s better to be up front and honest and say we would prefer to be anon. Each of us has our own reason, political, geographic, or personal.
That being said, (spoilers) we have some major partnerships coming up sooner than you might think, that require our team to officially KYC with some major entities. More on that in the next 48 hours

Serg | Satoshi Club: wow, I’m excited to see your news 🙂 could you give us some more hints? 🙂

Irina K. | @satoshi_club: We have a tradition, One secret/ AMA

Carmela: Well, our trusted leader dropped a “big K market” hint the other day…
I’m legally bound to not say more :innocent:.

Both parties will release an official announcement within 48 hours 😀 Needless to say, we have never been so excited at whats coming in the next two weeks. We are excited to take our vision of RMPL to the next level through these key partnerships.

Q5 from Telegram user @raztrader

What are the use cases for RMPL Tokens? How will the use cases benefit the value of RMPL token?

Carmela: This is a long one, one minute please!

Serg | Satoshi Club: take your time 🙂 btw, I am following the price. Since the beginning of the AMA it grew 30% 🙂

Irina K. | @satoshi_club: It’s “the satoshi club effect”

Serg | Satoshi Club: SCE, Satoshi Club effect

Carmela: RMPL has intrinsic value as an elastic supply token that can enable DeFi applications in an environment that is free from bot manipulation. We feel that this is something that is current unique to RMPL.
Our first application we are testing currently is for the RMPL Cradle (liquidity staking) which is coming later this month. We are also going to implement some sort of ranking system as a nice little incentive for stakers.
Far more important is that we are actively working on bringing more real world use cases to RMPL. We know that in order to really thrive we have to build an ecosystem around RMPL to drive adoption – and that’s our main long term goal.
For future plans, one of our co-founders is the CTO of a large point of sale software development company, where we are looking to develop a wallet to take payments in any currency and convert to RMPL on the fly for storage for when they are ready to do their end of month reconciliation – where it’s stable, and not unstable like Bitcoin or Eth.

We also see the recent hype about yield farming (yam..).
We have also noticed some instability in a lot of these farming tokens, and have already taken initial steps toward bringing some of these options to RMPL, where investors can grow their crops comfortably!
We are also taking the opinion of our community into account.
There has been massive demand, as soon as we launched for betting on the timing of the rebase. These organically motivated applications that come from the community are often the best kind of growth and development. We are looking to serve our communities needs first and foremost.

Q6 from Telegram user @boynerGroup

Could you please elaborate a bit on the lag factor, how it is determined and what role it plays in the rebase calculations now and moving forward?

Carmela: Yes, the lag factor is one of our features that allows for both accelerated growth, while simultaneously stabilizing the coins price at higher market caps.
The lag factor is semi-random across a curve, and is applied as a multiplier on the rebase supply delta. The lag factor depends on the current total supply, and the curve allows supply to increase at a faster rate when the total market cap is low by having a multiplier as high as 14.
As we approach higher market share, the expected multiplier is closer to 6, which means that the total supply adjustment will be less dramatic, improving stability.

Part 2 — live questions from the Telegram community

Q1 from Telegram user @Nickkiii

Is RMPL secured against smart contract vulnerabilities? Have you carried out multiple audits with third parties?

Carmela: Great question, RMPL has contracted two well known auditors in the space, that have gained trust through their great work on major projects.
The audit work has begun already, and we will publish the full report as soon as its available (next week). We believe this is critical in continuing to build trust with the community, particularly after witnessing some investors being significantly impacted by other contract vulnerabilities (looking at you, YAMS)

Q2 from Telegram user @putu45

How do you plan to spread awareness about your project in different countries where English is not spoken well? Do you have local communities for the them to let them better understand about your project?

Carmela: We believe that too many times, communities are left behind because teams neglect their audience.
We currently have telegram communities setup for these following communities and are adding more every week!
Communities:
🇦🇪 @RMPL_Arabia
🇳🇱 @RMPL_Dutch
🇮🇳 @RMPL_India
🇮🇩 @RMPL_Indonesia
🇹🇷 @RMPL_Turkey
🇻🇳 @RMPL_VN

Q3 from Telegram user @melanintrish

When would Staking on the RMPL Cradle begin? and will stakers be able too see the statistics and return rates available?

Carmela: Right now we are focused on finishing the RMPL Cradle (liquidity staking).
We actually have finished the development and are in testing phases.
We are going to implement a ranking system as a nice little incentive for stakers to monitor both their own statistics as well as a leaderboard where you can compare yourself to others.
We will have some teasers of the UI dashboard coming very soon and full deployment will be online by the end of the month 🙂

Q4 from Telegram user @Trust_Yourself22

Currently , RMPL is Listed only on Uniswap .
Do you have plans to list on Bigger CEX Like Kucoin , Binance like AmpleForth ?

Carmela: Uniswap has served the community well as a way to bootstrap successful launches. However, many investors are not comfortable with operating on decentralized exchanges, and we know that to bring in the full audience we need to bring in big partners.
We are excited to say, that we will have a joint announcement of these partnerships in the next 48 hours! :heart_eyes:

Q5 from Telegram user @RoZerius

I can’t find $RMPL token on CoinGecko. In case if someone want to buy $RMPL, but can’t find the market, what markets did $RMPL listed on (except Uniswap)?

Carmela: We are now listed on coingecko 🍾 https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/rmpl

Q6 from Telegram user @tazmansix

Looking at the existing tokenomics, the second most people holding tokens are the team (22%). Is there a token lockout for the team? If so, how long will the lockout take?

Carmela: Team tokens are locked on a 2% weekly vesting period over the course of 1 year. To date, the team hasn’t sold a single token… and does not plan to anytime soon.
RMPL is our baby, and our long-term investment.

Q7 from Telegram user @philicrohit

What are the Unique features of the #RMPL? how does this platform protect User/Investor from market manipulation?

Carmela: The most unique differentiator which inspired RMPL is the random rebasing mechanism. Because of this unpredictable element we can help protect crypto investors and prevent manipulation by bots and whales by having the rebase happen at anytime.

Q8 from Telegram user @dtKross

How do you plan to explain such technical topics to a wider audience?

Carmela: Great question Kambe, you have inspired me to write a series of medium articles that do a deep explanation of the technical mechanisms, and why they are so important. I’ll follow up regarding this in the near future. You can also check out this featured video by our good friends over at BitBoy Crypto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veCSMunNAWc .

Q9 from Telegram user @melanintrish

Where can I buy $RPML? Is it listed on any exchange yet?

Carmela: currently listed on uniswap.info , keep your eyes open at our announcement channel https://t.me/RMPLANN for more updates on exchange partnerships :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Q10 from Telegram user @Idee01

How different is RMPL from the widely known AMPL? AMPL make use of geyser faucet, what does RMPL make use of?

Carmela: Thanks Para Bellum, community members like you are what makes RMPL’s community the best. You are why we wake up every morning, and get to work on developments. I appreciate you.
Geyser was tremendously important for Ampleforth, see attached image. Geyser was the launching off point that we all knew and loved.
RMPL Cradle, is our launching off point, our Geyser. It is currently in testing phase and will be fully deployed by the end of the month, and it is so exciting to be here with you all, in these first days before we make OUR push to the top of the crypto charts.

Serg | Satoshi Club: that was it. thank you very much @slammyz

For your time and answers 🙂Do you want to address the community with a message before we open the chat?

Carmela: Thank you Serg and Irina, your community and hosting is truly remarkable!
We loved being here today, for anyone in the community who wants to stay up to date with RMPL, stay tuned on our telegram channel for some big announcements coming in the next 48 hours!

Part 3 – Quiz Results

In the final part we tested your knowledge in terms of RMPL. They’ve prepared 4 questions for this part. The total reward pool for quiz was 1200$.

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ATROMG8 x SatoshiClub AMA from 21 August

Good content isn’t about good storytelling. It’s about telling a true story well. SatoshiClub does its best to deliver you only true stories about amazing cryptocurrency projects. And today we would like to tell you about the AMA session with our friends from ATROMG8. The AMA took place on August 21 and our guest was Milivoje Batista, the Founder of ATROMG8.

The total reward pool was 600$ and has been splitted in 3 parts.

In this AMA Recap we will try to summarise the most interesting points for you.

Part 1 — introduction and questions from the Telegram&Bitcointalk community

Serg | Satoshi Club: Hello!today our guests are from @My_Atronocom_World , How are you today?

Irina K. | @satoshi_club: Hi and welcome to Satoshi Club

Serg | Satoshi Club: You are very busy today 🙂 please introduce yourself and the project

Quantum Baker: Hi guys my name is Milivoje Batista and i am the Founder of ATROMG8

Serg | Satoshi Club: are you from the balkans btw?

Irina K. | @satoshi_club: Tell us a few words about ATROMG8 please 😊

Quantum Baker: I or the Team?

Serg | Satoshi Club: I thought Milivoje is a Balkanic name 🙂

Quantum Baker: No, Milivoje is known in the Balkan very well but it comes from the old french but one part of parants is coming from the balkan thats right.

ATROMG8 is a API connection platform which is specialized on the data protection and privacy and which is connecting over API many additional services from third parties on our Social Media platform

Irina K. | @satoshi_club: Is it like a “hub” for API’s?

Quantum Baker: Yes, think in the Form of a shopping Centre where the structure is given and the shops inside are providing all of the needs of today under one roof! Some of the services we are providing by our self and some we are giving to third parties to take care for.

Irina K. | @satoshi_club: Thanks for the intro @QuantumBaker. In the first part we have questions from our community collected via our platform. Ready to start?

Quantum Baker: yes i am

Q1 from bitcointalk user juanes

You will release the Beta version soon. Please explain what new functionalities it will bring and what is its goal?

Quantum Baker: the Beat one is testing the reaction of the platoform under stress. that means when a lot of users are joing! The other point is to have feedback abaout functionalities in especially the social media segment as this is a very importatant part. bi weekly we are adding the features and working on them to make sure that ones we go live 11.11.2020 we have good resulats and user experience

Serg | Satoshi Club: how many users can it sustain at the same time?

Quantum Baker: We are implemting our Blockchain for the use of the EHealth of Kerala for 35 Million people at the Moment and once this is over i can tell you more. We are taking care for data protection and there is our focus. We have features to issue Diplomas and Certificates on Blockchain or using this technology for MatchMaker activities between companies which we are preparing with IBREI and Accubits on the platform of IBREI which is connecting 30`000 companies

Irina K. | @satoshi_club: Could you elaborate on the functionalities it will bring please?

Quantum Baker: in which field of the platform?

Irina K. | @satoshi_club: Let’s say health. Since you gave an example from that industry

Quantum Baker: health is a very special part. The idea is that one can go to any Doctor and and just show his QR Code and the Doctor can read it and get limited access to all the Data of the client. this way the client do not need to have all the Data all the Time with him and therefore nothing gets lost. A clients history can be identified and it is the job of our Blockchain to make sure that this ata does not get out there and only stays available to the person who is authorized by the patient.

Q2 from bitcointalk user peterter

ATROMG8 got featured on Hackernoon’s list of “Top 20 Promising Blockchain Projects in 2020. How much competition do you feel in this area now?

Quantum Baker: yes we were featured for the Data Security part in combination with Traditional Industrial needs and the development of the cryptographic possibilities like Blockchain and communication as this is one of the top topics 2020/21 and for sure later as well as the Cyber Criminals are not sleeping as well

We see every day more and more projects coming but we are not afraid as we are already supplying huge Networks with our Technology and testing it together. That what we have now will keep us busy for quite a time even no new client will come to join the network. Which we doubt as we are getting contacted on a daily base.

Serg | Satoshi Club: this is good for business :+1: good job

would like to add more or shall we proceed to the next question?

Quantum Baker: no we can go on

Q3 from Telegram user @kany_west

You say that you have implemented your blockchain on a satellite. Am I right? How does this function?

Quantum Baker: We are the first Blockchain which is going to have a full node on a Satellite which is going to be in the lower orbit and transported by SpaceX in August 2021 there.
As many institutions and research and development companies have issues with the security on the terestrial internet, we are ginving a solution to transfer files and information as well as connect to IOT Devices over a Satellite. this is giving in many points less exposure to hackers and a much higher security for the users of the service. this is giving in many points less exposure to hackers and a much higher security for the users of the service

Serg | Satoshi Club: are you in contact with Elon? 🙂

Quantum Baker: Sorry i can not answer this kind of question here as we have very strict contractual regulation. Our Agencies are talking to each other!

Serg | Satoshi Club: fair enough 🙂

Q4 from Telegram user @ownyourfunds


What is LLARP Protocol? It is for security reasons as I understand. why do you need it

Quantum Baker: woow, ok let me think one moment how to pack it short and sexy!

Irina K. | @satoshi_club: Short is optional, make it sexy 😀

Quantum Baker: LLARP was introduced by LOKI earlier to overcome the down sides of TOR and i2P in the cominication and speed on transaction. We are using it as the protocol for our MixNet! The name of the MixNet is RUBY and thats the only Sexy thing in this answere! Sorry for that

Serg | Satoshi Club: no prob, we love Ruby ))

Quantum Baker: ruby is cool and she can talk… hahaha

Serg | Satoshi Club: with a sexy voice I guess 😂

Quantum Baker: we are working on it! at the moment you must have a very strange preference to find it sexy but ok! We will see once we have it done

Q5 from Telegram username @trandaiquang91191


I’m really interested about ATROMG8 Charity Program, it’s really great program to help our discommodity comrade. What kind of charity target from ATROMG8? And what do ATROMG8 give to donate them?

Quantum Baker: The Charity Program is a project which we call the Chain of Love. of all the transactions done on our Network and with oour or any other currency, we are giving 10% to Humanitarian and Enviromental preservation projects. On the platform which we go live shortly, you would be able to introduce your project and apply for financial support. If the community likes it you will get suppported by ATROMG8

Serg | Satoshi Club: what humanitarian actions have you supported until now?

Quantum Baker: Now we are not doiing to many transactions so the budget is not that big but we are already supporting our Legion the guys out there of the community to help people on the streets who have no home and nothing to eat. At the moment in Brazil!

Serg | Satoshi Club: great initiative!

Quantum Baker: Its not big but 200-300 people get each night something warm to eat in the Favelas of porto Alegre!

Irina K. | @satoshi_club: That’s a great initiative :heart:

Q6 from Telegram user @alice_wonderland12


According to your whitepaper a transaction can be considered confirmed with 99.9% certainty after an average of 1.5 seconds from time of broadcast, would that 0.01% be significant to funds losses while doing transactions?

Quantum Baker: no, not at all! The speed is very important in todays world and the lost of funds today has more to do with human failures to 80 or 90% and 10% goes to the account of technology!

yes we would love to see you on our Channel

Serg | Satoshi Club: would you like to add smth or shall we open the chat? 🙂

Quantum Baker: I want to just give one thing to think about and this is very important to the whole team. ATROMG8 is not made to push a coin or a token. We believe in the long term building of value and security and therefor we are working at the hardest to build the community and usecases up where we have all of our focus. This is and only this will bring the real value to the coin and no pump activities, Therefore do not join or participate in this project if you see the project to make fast big money but if you see us as a Team which probably can bring some solutions to create a better world together then you are very welcome to join us like many big companies already doing it!

Serg | Satoshi Club: that is laudable

Irina K. | @satoshi_club: That’s the way to do things. Congrats

Part 2 — live questions from the Telegram community

Q from Telegram user @Aleurich

AtromG8 is a fairly complex ecosystem in terms of all the services they offer. What services do you think are the most needed in the world today?

Quantum Baker: for sure data security! this can kill you and your future! There is a whole industry out there behind you and your information! If you dont protect them then you have no future

Q from Telegram user @armahes

there is 5G technology and IoT(internet of things) as emerging Technologies… now,Can ATROMG8 integrate or Join these technologies to merge into Constellation ECOSYSTEM?

Quantum Baker: we are doing the same over the Satellite as we are doing over terrestrial internet! As you can see, we have in our Board Jorge Sebastiao, Former CTo of Huawaei and we are working on some great things but to early to share.

Q from Telegram user @lucy4277

Regarding IBREI, how do they manage to establish a bridge for alliances and relationships between professionals, companies and institutions, both public and private? do they use any algorithm that connects similar interests?

Quantum Baker: We are Building a Platform togehter with the name WORLDG8 and on this platform we are integrating state of the Art Algos to make sure that we have matches which makes sense and we are building as well support centers in several spots on this planet to make sure that the peopple are not only talking to robots. It is a mix of Algo and real life support! We call it the round table

Quantum Baker:

We are working on the largest B2B and B2C platform in the world with Accubits Technologies, Oorjid, IBREI and two partners which we are not allowd to mention at this point of time. The idea is to make sure that from the small size companies up to the big boy all are fighting with the same sticks and makeing sure that the data are still protected and not only supporting one or two global players. On the other side we are building with very very large Student organizations the platofromt for education and Training and building the bridge between the Industry and the Students and the challanges of the global post pandemic economy! Our Aim is to be the best in this field even it is a long way to go but we have the right people to do it!

Q from Telegram user @bitgraile

What was the greatest challenge ATROMG8 team had while creating the project? Thank you.

Quantum Baker: Regulation which is not harmonized in a global economy and the games of Banking Industry against the peer to peer movement!

Q from Telegram user @xwidex

how do you attract investors to be interested in $AG8 ? because some investors only focus on short-term prices rather than long term?

Quantum Baker: I think that our situation and status quo gives us the possibility to claim that we will ahve a substantial grow in the Token price in short and the long term Investors. We are improving the system again and again and we are sure that we are satisfiyng both preferences.

Q from Telegram user @starkyiv

How will AtromG8 solve the scaling problem that social media platforms have?

Quantum Baker: This is a complex question but for sure the API Architecture is releasing a lot of pressure and the Defi plannings (not ERC20 base) will have as well their impact. But to give you a precise answere i would need to have a specific field of this question

Q from Telegram user @jpsarmah

You go live in roughly 82 days. What are the developments going on currently and what is the roadmap ahead after going live?

Quantum Baker: we are 90% with the social media! Blockchain Certification system is finsihed 100% and in testing in Singapore and the UAE. Shop for B2B and B2C is on 85% and in testing mode. Online School is 95% and in Design Mode. First classes will test it with William Nonnis (Full Stack Dev of the Ministry of Defense of Italy by end of september! Blockchain is under stress test and will go in main Net mode by end of Oct and be ready for 11.11.2020
Node and Staking process 85% are in test and calculation are in process for quotas and participation.

Q from Telegram user @Mcmonk

how does $AG8 spearhead the adoption of DeFi using a blockchain solution?

Quantum Baker: thats the 1 Million dollar Question which we are working on it with out satisfing results so far as all what is available today does not fullfil the requierments of a secure and fast network which would make any sense in the real industry

Q from Telegram user @CryptoLover97

How can you ensure that the project will be long term?
Why do you think it was better to launch your token in the SAFT agreement?

Quantum Baker: Nobody can give you any guarantee but this structure of the partners involved and the steps already achieved does not reflect the intention to soon stop here and trow away what we achieved. And the SAFT was the most stupid idea we had and thats why the most of it were reimbursed and the fianncial part taken over by the Team it self.
We are not advising anobody to do the SAFT then from the regulation it does not protect yo in any sense and the onyl guys really makeing a fortune are the lawyers!

Part 3 – Quiz Results

In the final part we tested your knowledge in terms of ATROMG8. They’ve prepared 4 questions for this part. The total reward pool for quiz was 300$.

For more information and future AMAs, join our Social Media channels:
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Constellation Network x Satoshi Club AMA Recap from 20th of August

Today we would like to tell you about the AMA session with our friends from Constellation Network. The AMA took place on August 20 and our guests were  Benjamin Jorgensen (CEO), Benjamin Diggles (CRO – Business Development), Mathias Goldman (COO), Wyatt Meldman-Floch (CTO) and Tom (Community Admin).

The total reward pool was $600 and it was splitted into three parts.

In this AMA Recap we will try to summarize some of the most interesting points for you.


PART 1, INTRODUCTION AND COMMUNITY QUESTIONS

Serg | Satoshi Club: Hello! Today our guests are from @constellationcommunity. Welcome to Satoshi Club!

Irina K.| @Satoshi_Club: How are you today? welcome 😊 thanks for joining us today.

Mateo Gold: Hello everyone.

Tom: Hey I’m great thank you for asking!

Benjamin J Jorgensen: HELLO!

Serg | Satoshi Club: For the beginning, please introduce the project and tell us a few words about yourself. 🙂

Benjamin J Jorgensen: Hello all! We are Constellation Network – we are protocol that is creating an ecosystem for applications to communicate with one another. We leverage a directed acyclic graph (dag) for effective and efficient data processing. We are a truly decentralized network that focuses on building applications with data assurance. As such we are working closely with the U.S. Air Force and DoD to provide a scalable distributed ledger technology for big data processing and secure data transportation standard.

We have our core team here – Benjamin Diggles (CRO – Business Development). Mathias Goldman (COO) and Wyatt Meldman-Floch (CTO).

Irina K.| @Satoshi_Club: Nice. Did any of you serve in the army?

Benjamin J Jorgensen: No. My entire family did though. Down to the revolutionary war in the US. My grandfather wrote the test for pilots back in WW2.

Irina K.| @Satoshi_Club: Wow. How comes you didn’t follow their steps?

Benjamin J Jorgensen: My dad served in Vietnam and said “No way… go build the future.” So ya. I was the only one that didn’t serve in the military. Anyhow – back to crypto!

Irina K.| @Satoshi_Club: Good advice I would say. Kudos to your dad. 🙂

Q1 from Bitcointalk User gustafsson

Your mainnet is built on DAG. Why you have chosen DAG? Is it pow or pos?

Benjamin J Jorgensen: Well – DAG is an architecture.Proof of Work and Proof of Stake are consensus mechanisms. We chose a dag because it is a common architecture for distributed systems leveraged by applications (like LinkedIn, Twitter, etc). to process and organize data.

We wanted to create a blockchain that could process a TON of transactions and a lot of data so that we could create an ecosystem where people built meaningful applications on top of it. Our consensus mechanism is Proof of Reputable Observation (PRO). And we use this because it is a programmatic and algorithmic way to effectively and efficiently organize the network for speed and security.

Our consensus is concurrent as well – we run multiple consensuses in parallel – which is vastly different and more scalable than any other blockchain

Irina K.| @Satoshi_Club: Could you elaborate on programmatic and algorithmic way of organization?

Mateo Gold: So, the way to scale an architecture is to have multiple consensus rounds in parallel that then feed into a global state of the network and a global consensus. That makes it truly scalable

Benjamin J Jorgensen: Yes – from a high level Wyatt and the core engineers wrote algorithms to organize the data. We score each node on their reputation (past participation, geo location, uptime, etc.). This then allows us to randomize the nodes and the data they validate.

Irina K.| @Satoshi_Club: How are the nodes formed?

Benjamin J Jorgensen: We had about 1500 applications for nodes to be a part of the network. We ran KYC and interviewed individuals and organizations to be a part of the network. We then organized them into batches based on their contribution to Constellation – technology, messaging, and involvement in building the ecosystem.

Serg | Satoshi Club: Can you tell us which were the most interesting applications? or the funniest ones?

Benjamin J Jorgensen: Well – it was one of the most amazing things I have seen. People from around the world applied and shared their life stories with us.

Some people came to us after having built ecosystems for other major protocols and were inspired by the technology – the potential to evolve blockchain technology – and could offer their technical expertise as well as experience governing a network.

Some of the funny ones were one sentence applications that said “I WANT $DAG”. But still funny. It was a humbling experience to see all of these people, from around the world – 92 countries – reach out to us.

Q2 from Bitcointalk User nyosant

Constellation bases consensus on reputation, but how is the reputation score for a node determined (i.e., what are the main parameters determining reputation)? What would happen when a node deviates from the expected behavior?

Wyatt M-F: To answer a little further we essentially have two consensus processes happening in parallel, one for blocks and one for converging global state.

  • For block consensus we partition facilitators (3/total) using a locality sensitive hash function that is a Xor of the edges leading into the block.
  • For global convergence all nodes must propose a ‘view’ of the total dag and conform (re-download new patches of the DAG that are inconsistent with majority) according to the state selection algorithm that incorporates our reputation model. Note that only full nodes participate in global state consensus.

Irina K.| @Satoshi_Club: What other types of nodes are there? By “locality” you mean geography?

Mateo Gold: Locality in terms of network topography.

Benjamin J Jorgensen: We will be introducing light nodes by the end of this year.

Serg | Satoshi Club: How to run a node?

Tom: https://constellationnetwork.io/run-a-node/

Benjamin J Jorgensen: We have about 50-100 more foundational nodes we will be onboarding over the course of the next couple of months.

Irina K.| @Satoshi_Club: So it’s light nodes and full nodes, right?

Benjamin J Jorgensen: Yes.

Wyatt M-F: The reputation model at its core is a ‘node influence metric’ that we calculate using a self-avoiding random walk. This is a way of understanding influence in social graphs and it also gives us a lot of flexibility for extending into convolutions of other state channel graphs.

No, but in reality there’s a tradeoff between how expensive we want nodes to be for main net. So we’ll decide via governance probably on a cap and queue new nodes when a max is hit. For state channels its totally up to you. It’s just an exercise in resource optimization. That’s the amazing thing about being memory bound.

Q3 from Telegram User @sai_sa

United States air force is your partner. That is huge! How did you manage to establish this partnership? What benefits do you have and what did you propose to do for them?

Mr. Diggles: We became aware of what is called Other Transaction Authorities that allow for small businesses to engage with the DoD w/o being squashed by the standard industry primes like Lockheed Martin, Etc. And we learned that folks inside the federal space really are thirsty for DLT solutions. So we wrote a proposal that was predicated around applying Blockchain to big data initiatives.

IBM has done a great job of establishing themselves for digital logistics but when it comes to Air and Space, we are the only solution to be successful in that realm since the data is just so big. Putting us in a class of our own.

Benjamin J Jorgensen: The worlds global food supply is regulated through satellites. They collect data like temperature, crop productions and yeilds, and send this data to organizations around the globe to better regulate the global supply chain.

Serg | Satoshi Club: What about the hyped spacex?

Benjamin J Jorgensen: Space shuttles need more security around the data – think if a space shuttle taking civilians to space had compromised security.

Mr. Diggles: SpaceX is very cool for sure but we are focused on the DoD since it’s far broader than SpaceX and they handle more data than all of Elon’s ventures combined.

Serg | Satoshi Club: The business would be destroyed.

Benjamin J Jorgensen: Absolutely – and lives.

Mr. Diggles: Proving ourselves in federal will pave the way for the private sector, including SpaceX, in a meaningful way. Much like the advent of the internet.

Q4 from Telegram User @angela_rer

Don’t you think that 5G technology solves the issues you described about Data? I mean about the transfers of GB per second of a lot of data.

Benjamin J Jorgensen: 5G was introduced to invite more connectivity of applications – more data – at faster speeds. The technology is supposed to advance automation at the next level. This is creating more and more data than we ever imagine.

Much of our existing digital infrastructure wasn’t built to safeguard this data…. let alone have a sound data strategy around it.

Our technology was established to provide a new infrastructure to secure this data and create more efficient and secure means of transporting and collecting this data so that we can build the next evolution of applications that connect the globe.

Q5 from Telegram User @Cryptolover1010

What your plans in place for global expansion, are Constellation focusing on only market at this time? Or focus on building and developing or getting customers and users, or partnerships? Can you explain this?

Benjamin J Jorgensen: While we are building some incredible things for the DoD, it will be a year out before we can really share the day to day of what we are doing. We are about to announce a very large partnership and product around DeFi. We can’t say a whole lot, but this will be a product that nearly every crypto asset trader can use.

We have been building a stealth project that will be revealed in the coming weeks with some of the biggest players in crypto. A lot of data is used and created in the trading of crypto assets – it is time for crypto asset financial instruments to be on par with financial instruments of the equities and public market.

And Constellation and our partners will introduce the first ecosystem build on Constellation – using our protocol – to create more reliant algorithmic trading products in the crypto world. This will be one of many and it starts in the DeFi space.

Serg | Satoshi Club: We are looking forward to that announcement. 🙂

Benjamin J Jorgensen: It will happen before you know it and it will take the crypto space by storm.

Serg | Satoshi Club: DeFi is definitely cool now and it’s great you are in that space. thanks for the answer, Benjamin.

Benjamin J Jorgensen: Let’s just say that DeFi needs a faster, more secure, and scalable protocol than Ethereum… and we are that protocol.

Q6 from Telegram User @luckydraw66

DeFi, or Decentralized Finance, has become a hot topic in the industry. On that front, I’ve seen Constellation detailing DeFi use cases on the website. What would you say is the most promising DeFi application for Constellation at the moment?

Mateo Gold: While we cannot disclose all the details of the upcoming project quite yet, you are right there is tremendous excitement and value to be captured. Connecting ecosystems and building the world of multiple concurrent blockchains that interact with each and create a fluent borderless value exchange opens us up to a whole range of applications around tokens and finance. That said this is just the V1 of our vision of an ecosystem where everyone can build on top and create value not only around tokenized finance but also tokenized data and data derivatives.


PART 2, TELEGRAM COMMUNITY LIVE QUESTIONS

The chat was open for 80 seconds; a lot of questions were posted by Satoshi Club community. Our guests chose some of them.

Q1 from Telegram User @Albert3990

Constellation is a token erc 20 actually. Do you have any project to build your own blockchain in the future?

Wyatt M-F: We actually already launched main net. Download the Molly wallet and you can send native $dag.

Tom: Make sure to use kucoin to buy DAG btw. Or our OTC channel https://discord.gg/zs73mny

Q2 from Telegram User @Jonahapagu

What are the advantages of Directed Acyclic graph (DAG) over traditional Blockchain?

Wyatt M-F: With the right provisioning, it scales horizontally.

Q3 from Telegram User @sarjanacryptocurrency

What features does the Constellation have, and which features are really the main weapon that even other projects don’t have?

Mateo Gold:

  • Concurrent consensus -> means true scalability and higher throughputs than traditional blockchains.
  • Zero fees for single tx below the rate limit but tx fees for validating data streams or sending a lot of data.
  • Being able to validate and notarize all kinds of data from databases, sensors, iot devices, etc etc..
  • Creating assurance and audit trails around large data amounts and data that si streamed in real-time.
  • Crosschain interoperability.
  • Mathematical theorems proven and turned into code.

Q4 from Telegram User @Dhanu006

What is the vision and mission of your coin? What problems are you trying to solve? Do these problems remain unsolved with the existing public blockchains?

Wyatt M-F: The vision has two angles:

– Create a protocol that can actually interoperate with real world architectures at the scale of impactful consumer products (can actually act as an oracle at scale).

– To provide in implicit infrastructure for the decentralized data revolution (getting paid for sharing your data, and a new class of ‘miners’ mining for novel data).

Q5 from Telegram User @muw_muw

What kind of advantages does Constellation have over its competitors on the market? Can you please give some reasons to convince the users to use Constellation?

Mateo Gold: We are the first blockchain company with a live token to be in a partnership with the United States airforce opening us ip to the entire world of military, government and defense. As a US company we have an inroad that many international companies simply cannot access. The barrier of entry for other blockchains is also pretty high (we have neever come across them in any of our conversations with the DoD) since they cannot process streaming data.

As a truly decentralized fast and low-fee infrastrcuture people will learn fast that they can build out an entire ecosystem (not just one solution for data) but an entire ecosystem around finance, data and many applications that havent even been thought about yet.

They can create their own DAG tokens with our new token standard that is akin to what erc20 is on ethereum. They can go raise funds for that and have immediate cross chain liquditiy not only within the DAG ecosystem but the entire erc20 world as well.

Q6 from Telegram User @putu45

Can you list 1-3 killer features of $DAG that makes it ahead of its competitors? What is the competitive advantage your platform has that you feel most confident about?

Benjamin J Jorgensen: Yes! Great question.

Our Architecture: Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) is a common architecture for creating centralized big data distribution. We created a decentralized DAG

Our Consensus Mechanism: We use Proof of Reputable Observation (PRO) and organize the network using topology. Topological ordering of data is required for Artificial Intelligence engineers to add data to their automation workflows. We wanted to create a network of data that can be used by any engineer including the world’s leading data engineers. Our consensus mechanism is the next layer of defense after double spend thwarting.

Cryptographically Securing Complex Data Types (Images, and Videos): While a smart contract is great for programmatic execution and tracking of a digital asset, Constellation goes one step further to cryptographically secure the contents of those digital assets (the features, rows and columns of the data base that makes up the data asset).

Microservice Ecosystem: Microservices are the glue of any application. Think of Facebook – Facebook is made up of a myriad of Microservices that communicate and exchange data with each other. Facebook is not made up of smart contracts (these are not reliable or scalable in a highly engaged environment. Constellation allows any engineer to build a secure micro-service that communicates with existing applications as well as blockchain applications.

Q7 from Telegram User @Oreza1

Molly Wallet is not available for android devices, almost everyone uses android, what is the reason Molly wallet is not available for android devices?

Mateo Gold: We will have having an open sdk and a new light wallet coming soon as well.

Q8 from Telegram User @Jonahapagu

Constellation was built to organize and handle Big and complex Data this type of data can only be sourced and gotten from big companies and organizations that own and control them how will constellation be of use to Individual Machine learning engineers and data scientists who are looking forward to building their own AI products? 

Mr. Diggles: So these big data companies may seemed locked down but this is only because they are so cautious about data security and their IP. Constellation, and the promise of DLT, will give these companies the attribution and security they need to make this data widely available for new forms of data exchange (which means new channels for revenue). This is where the Datapreneur concept takes hold. Companies are shifting to opening up their data since it’s more valuable in use than it is being closed off. This is why Mobility is seeing a renaissance and companies that have traditionally been mortal enemies are now starting to work together. The upside is just too great to not play in the interoperable eco-system.

Soon data will be widely available much like open source development tools became available in the early 2000s. Datapreneur’s will be able to grab open data (like what you’d find on data.gov and elsewhere) combine it with enterprise data and create new insights and value. We are at the beginning of a whole new industry because of this.

Q9 from Telegram User @mistihapa

As a common user, will I be able to run a node? What requirements would I need, what exactly would be my purpose and what incentives are there for this?

Mateo Gold: We have a very strong community based governance through our stardust governance collective. All individuals have built strong relationships over the last years and they monitor contribution to the ecosystem. It becomes obvious very fast who is suitable to be part of the collective and able to run a node based on these contributions and the interaction with the group.

Q10 from Telegram User @mistihapa

What is the meaning behind the Logo of Constellation?

Mateo Gold: The connected and fractal nature of reality.

Q11 from Telegram User @OS_ELIN

Where is Constellation Network in 5 to 10 years from now?

Mateo Gold: Everywhere.

Q12 from Telegram User

Benjamin J Jorgensen: This existing environment has accelerated constellation’s roadmap as nearly every business in the world is figuring out their digital footprint. 5G came online recently and this too has accelerated the need to create more robust data solutions.

Working with the US Federal Government, there has been a dire need to secure the data (accessing files remotely and leveraging multiple security clearances for the same data set). For the public sector, we are seeing more enterprises move data, in a compliant way, from antiquated hardware infrastructure to modern cloud infrastructures. Constellation accelerates the transfer of data in a programmatically compliant way.

With everyone moving digital, we have created more potential threats to our lives and our digital identity. Heck – the federal government is looking for a way to digitize and evolve the social security number and your identity.

Q13 from Telegram User @sivaa32

What is your biggest challenge at the moment? How can you overcome this challenge?

Mateo Gold: More awareness about the ground-breaking novelty of what we have built. More deep crypto partnerships and AMAs and exposure like this to people like you.

Thank you so much for inviting us to and handling and curating this AMA. It has been a lot of fun.

Benjamin J Jorgensen: Thank you all for the amazing questions! 366 questions is incredible. Hopefullly we have 366 more followers on our company. Great AMA! You all killed it.

Serg | Satoshi Club: It was really great. I was impressed by your work. 🙂

Benjamin J Jorgensen: We are making some huge strides to going into the Asian markets with our DeFi project. Really exciting opportunity and fun to announce that here – or at least set the stage.

Thank you! You as well. Have a great day!


PART 3, QUIZ AND INFO

As usual, for the third part, Satoshi Club Team asked the chat 4 questions about Constellation Network. A link to a Quiz form were sent into the chat. Participants had 10 minutes to answer. 300$ were distributed among winners.

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AMA Satoshi Club x Level01, August 29th

We are pleased to announce our next AMA on August 29th 2020 at 12:00 PM UTC Time: Satoshi Club x Level01

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Part 2: 150$/10 users – Open chat for 80 seconds. You can post Max 5 questions. Level01 Team will select 10 questions and answer them.

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AMA Satoshi Club x IoTeX, August 25th

We are pleased to announce our next AMA on August 25th 2020 at 04:00 PM UTC Time: Satoshi Club x IoTeX

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We will have the following structure:

Part 1: 150$ /6 users – We’ll select 6 questions from the community. A user can post maximum 3 questions. 4 Questions will be selected from our website – please submit your questions in the comments section of this post. 2 Question will be selected from Bitcointalk thread.

Part 2: 150$/10 users – Open chat for 80 seconds. You can post Max 5 questions. IoTeX Team will select 10 questions and answer them.

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AMA Satoshi Club x Rebased, August 24th

We are pleased to announce our next AMA on August 24th 2020 at 02:00 PM UTC Time: Satoshi Club x Rebased

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Part 1: 200$ /6 users – We’ll select 6 questions from the community. A user can post maximum 3 questions. 4 Questions will be selected from our website – please submit your questions in the comments section of this post. 2 Question will be selected from Bitcointalk thread.

Part 2: 200$/10 users – Open chat for 80 seconds. You can post Max 5 questions. Rebased Team will select 10 questions and answer them.

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