Serg: <\/strong>HI! We are pleased to have @dieguitogz<\/a> as a guest today. Our AMA will be about RSK. Welcome, Diego!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ciprian Ciubotaru: <\/strong>Hi everyone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diego Guti\u00e9rrez Zald\u00edvar: <\/strong>Hello Satoshi clubbers!!! Very happy to be here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Serg: <\/strong>Nice to meet you \ud83d\ude42 Before we start to discuss the questions of the community, please tell us a bit about yourself, your background in crypto<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ciprian Ciubotaru: <\/strong>Thanks for joining and thank you for your time 😊<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diego Guti\u00e9rrez Zald\u00edvar: <\/strong>Happy to, I’ve got in touch with Bitcoin in 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n But I didn’t get it\n:joy:, and almost a year later a good friend of mine brought me back\nto it<\/p>\n\n\n\n Serg: <\/strong>So, you are basically one of the pioneers of crypto \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Diego Guti\u00e9rrez Zald\u00edvar: <\/strong>You can say so 🙂 but I think the true pioneers are the Nick Szabos and Adam Backs 🙂 Even Sergio that started in 2011 and found 9 bugs in Bitcoin protecting it from some important threats<\/p>\n\n\n\n Serg: <\/strong> It happened to me as well \ud83d\ude42 Back then in Argentina we had capital controls and my friend made me open an account at Blockchain.info<\/a>, sent me 5K BTC, I sent them back to him and all happened witin an hour<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diego Guti\u00e9rrez Zald\u00edvar: <\/strong>For me that experience was revealing because I had the feeling of how a truly open and permissionless financial system would work. So since then I decided to devote myself in full to understand Bitcoin and foster its knowledge in Latin America. Well as I started with 2 partners to create the Bitcoin communities accross Latin America, I was defining where I wanted to apply my efforts. And at the end of 2013 I decided I wanted to focus on solving the problem of financial exclusion. As I started some experiences in the slums I realized that Bitcoin alone was not enough. That we needed representations of the local currencies and decentralized business logic. And I wanted to have those local curriencies backed by Bitcoin, much like a digital gold standard<\/p>\n\n\n\n So at the end of\n2014 after a talk with Nick Szabo that triggered the question on how\nwe could bring all those functionalities to Bitcoin I contacted\nSergio Lerner our Chief Scientist and cofounder to discuss these\nideas<\/p>\n\n\n\n Serg: <\/strong>wow, you are in contact with Nick Szabo, some people speculate he is behind the creation of BTC. What is your opinion about it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diego Guti\u00e9rrez Zald\u00edvar: <\/strong>Well I think he is for sure one of the intelectual fathers of Bitcoin but I think is a great thing that Satoshi is unknown, otherwise any charasterictic (bad or good) of the individual or collective behind the alias would be used to attack Bitcoin or to create sides<\/p>\n\n\n\n Serg: <\/strong>totally agree \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diego Guti\u00e9rrez Zald\u00edvar: <\/strong>Is great that Satoshi is anonymous so we all can be Satoshi<\/p>\n\n\n\n Serg:\n<\/strong>Thanks\nfor this awesome introduction. <\/strong>Shall\nwe proceed to the questions of the community?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diego Guti\u00e9rrez Zald\u00edvar: <\/strong>My pleasure 😊<\/strong>Absolutely<\/p>\n\n\n\n Q<\/em><\/strong>1<\/em><\/strong>\nfrom <\/em><\/strong>Bitcointalk<\/em><\/strong>\nuser pedronino<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hi! Please explain why you added 2 tokens beside RIF? I have read but it is not fully clear. What is RDOC and RIFP? Are there any more tokens?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Diego Guti\u00e9rrez Zald\u00edvar: <\/strong>Well those two additional tokens where not created by us, they are tokens created by the MoneyOnChain protocol, and both are backed by RIF. RDOC is a stable asset that follows the dollar price and is over collateralized by RIF. So it will always will be worth 1 dollar of RIF regardless of the RIF fluctuations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nIf you have RIF you can obtain them on the RIFonChain platform\nrif.moneyonchain.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n It is essential for the RIF economy for the following reasons<\/p>\n\n\n\n As all services in the RIF Economy are structured around a sharing economy engine (RIF Marketplace). The Service providers need to stake RIF or RIF denominated assets as insurance if they don’t deliver their services. So for Service Providers having RDOC ensures them they can preserve their working capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the user side as we designed the RIF Services to serve the mainstream audience it helps new users have a token that is connected to something they already know until the get deeper into the crypto economy<\/p>\n\n\n\n Serg: <\/strong>So, if I sell services worth of 10,000 USD, I have to also buy tokens woth of this value for insurance?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diego Guti\u00e9rrez Zald\u00edvar: <\/strong>Conceptually yes, the ratio of staking might not be 1 to 1 but yes, all RIF service providers need to stake RIF or RIF backed tokens<\/p>\n\n\n\n Q<\/em><\/strong>2<\/em><\/strong>\nfrom T<\/em><\/strong>elgram<\/em><\/strong>\nuser @bambusvero<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Do\nyou think that there might be a problem if on your marketplace you\ncan “exchange information, value and services with full control\nand transparency”. What if I want my transaction on the\nmarketplace to be anonymous? What if a governmental institution can\nsee it and ask me to pay taxes for the transaction?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Diego Guti\u00e9rrez Zald\u00edvar: <\/strong>Well as with Bitcoin all transactions on the RIF Marketplace are pseudonymous and we are designing some privacy enhancing features. I think in current state of affairs going fully anonymous would bring a level of confrontation with government that could be detrimental for the development of the RIF economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We should find a balance where we stop mass surveilance systems from operating but if there is a crime involved the information can be followed by a forensics specialist, that’s where Bitcoin is today and we follow the same ethos \/ balance<\/p>\n\n\n\n Serg: <\/strong>At the moment, do you have any relationships\/deals with governments? is your platform regulated?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diego Guti\u00e9rrez Zald\u00edvar: <\/strong>The platform is protected by proof of work and is fully decentralized so we don’t control what runs in it. Our organization (IOVLabs) that is the original creator of the protocol is working with some governments to streamline certain areas of the government functions (drivers license)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Serg: <\/strong>what do you mean by bringing a level of confrontation with the government then? like they can ban its usage?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diego Guti\u00e9rrez Zald\u00edvar: <\/strong>Well I think the governments, even if they can stop a platform, can create a lot of friction. Good examples of that are happening with Zcash, Monero, Dash, etc and the IRS<\/p>\n\n\n\n Serg:<\/strong> that’s cool. Can you tell us which governments are those? Or it’s a secret at the moment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diego Guti\u00e9rrez Zald\u00edvar: <\/strong>Some is public like the project we did to create secure communications channels to report complains about commercial banks to the Central Bank in Argentina or a circular economy implemented in Marcos Paz, a 50K citizens city in the province of Buenos Aires. Others are still secret<\/p>\n\n\n\n Q<\/em><\/strong>3<\/em><\/strong>\nfrom <\/em><\/strong>Bitcointalk<\/em><\/strong>\nuser mirsiyanova<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Because\nRSK creates a sharing economy without a third-party, how will RSK\nsolve cases of disputes between buyers and sellers?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Diego Guti\u00e9rrez Zald\u00edvar:<\/strong> I think I answered that partially before, in the case of services that can be automatically validated (ie: storage, secure data transport, transaction processing, monitoring, etc.) the staking mechanism takes care of it. For the case of disputes that require subjective evaluation we are going to integrate Kleros and use the RIF Gateways oracle protocols to also integrate information markets or paid arbitrage in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Serg: <\/strong>How do you know which transactions will need subjective evaluation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diego Guti\u00e9rrez Zald\u00edvar: <\/strong>Oh that’s something each sharing economy decides the initial RIF Services we created are all self enforceable<\/p>\n\n\n\n But\nthe RIF Marketplace is open so others can create their own\nsharing economies<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our roles is to\nprovide the building blocks so others can combine it<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are in the\nprocess of turning a Social Network (Taringa!) into a Social\nMarketplace and we will showcase subjective dispute resolution there<\/p>\n\n\n\n My pleasure, in that\nsense is important to understand that our role is to create the\nprotocols, transfer them to the community and demonstrate the\npotential via some use cases but final goal is to create an ecosystem\nwhere many are creating solutions around the world and make this\ntechnology their own<\/p>\n\n\n\n Q<\/em><\/strong>4<\/em><\/strong>\nfrom T<\/em><\/strong>elgram<\/em><\/strong>\nuser @vasekmures<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n What\nservices are compatible with the RIF infrastructure? I know that if I\nam token hodler I can use them, but where can I find the list?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Diego Guti\u00e9rrez Zald\u00edvar: <\/strong>For a complete list of services and their goal you can go to rifos.org<\/a> and for a more technical view (libraries, dev tutorials, etc) you can go to developers.rsk.co<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The first ones we\nare focusing on are RIF Identity (includes RIF Directory, and RSK\nName Services), RIF Data (includes Storage and Streaming), RIF\nPayments (includes Lumino equivalent to Lightning on Bitcoin and\nother 3rd layer payment scaling protocols), RIF Gateways (oracles,\nschedulers and triggers outside the Blockchain) and RIF\nCommunications (incentivised secure communications protocol)<\/p>\n\n\n\n All this is\nintegrated around the RIF Marketplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n RIFP is the asset that RIF holders get when they provide the collateral for the issuance of RDOC and it gets revenue sharing from the operation of the RIFonChain platform and a slight leverage on the RIF volatily so its a good option for long term RIF holders<\/p>\n\n\n\n Q<\/em><\/strong>5<\/em><\/strong>\nfrom T<\/em><\/strong>elgram<\/em><\/strong>\nuser @bitociok<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I\nhave a question about RIF Publish. As I understand, it is a place\nfree of censorship. Can you explain to us why you needed to develop\nsuch a platform when we already have alternatives on the market? like\nsteemit for example. Diego Guti\u00e9rrez Zald\u00edvar: <\/strong>RIF Publish is a demonstration of what can be done combining multiple RIF Protocols: RNS for decentralized name resolution (so nobody can stop people from finding the page), RIF Data Storage (to store the data in a censorship resistant and decentrlized medium) and soon we will be able to integrate it with RIF Marketplace and Gateways for people to pay for specific journalist research on topics. RIF Publish is not trying to compete with Steemit and other although it has a bigger level of decentralization but to showcase the potential of the protocols we are building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As the toolchain (protocol, libraries and documentation) grow creating something like RIF Publish will be a matter of weeks and that’s our objective to enable developers to deliver value very effiently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Serg: <\/strong>Can you tell us more details about the storage? Is it also decentralized?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diego Guti\u00e9rrez Zald\u00edvar: <\/strong>Yes, RIF Data Storage is a decentralized meta protocol that enables to create economic incentives for service providers using different storage protocols. Currently we have integrated Swarm and IPFS but once the incentive model is stabilized other protocols can be included<\/p>\n\n\n\n Q<\/em><\/strong>6<\/em><\/strong>\nfrom T<\/em><\/strong>elgram<\/em><\/strong>\nuser @Lorax14<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n RIF\nOS wants to \u201cmanage to use one framework to solve all the\ndeveloper\u2019s need\u201d, how will you be able to do that?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Diego Guti\u00e9rrez Zald\u00edvar: <\/strong>Well I’m not sure if that definition is accurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n RIF OS is a\nframework (RSK Infrastructure Framework) and as such it has some\nsynergies between components for example we try to make all RIF\nprotocols leverage on the RIF Communications protocol and the RIF\nCommunication protocol leverages on the RIF Storage protocol for\nprivacy, the RIF Storage protocol leverages on the RIF Payments\nprotocol to make micro payments possible and so on and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also what all the\nprotocols have in common is that their economies are integrated\naround the RIF Marketplace backed by the RIF token or derived assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And in all cases we\nbuild libraries in the most used languages (javascript, java, python,\nC#, etc) on top of the protocols so non blockchain developers can use\nthe technology without becoming experts<\/p>\n\n\n\n So I would say what\nRIF offers is unified technical interface and a share economy to all\nthe protocols needed to build fully decentralized applications<\/p>\n\n\n\n Q<\/em><\/strong>1<\/em><\/strong>\nfrom <\/em><\/strong>Telgram<\/em><\/strong>\nuser @buduh11<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n What\nwas your motivation for starting this project? and what is your\nvision for $RIF?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Diego Guti\u00e9rrez Zald\u00edvar: <\/strong>Our motivation at IOVLabs has always been the same: https:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/rootstock-merges-bitcoin-ethereum-help-world-bank-drive-financial-inclusion-1528902<\/a> .As you can see we are prety consistent over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our main goal is to\ncreate the financial infrastructure that will serve anyone regardless\nthe conditions they were born into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And we decided to create that on top of Bitcoin because we wanted the foundations (Store of Value) to be as censorship resistant and solid as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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