{"id":1489,"date":"2020-08-23T23:06:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T20:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esatoshi.club\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2020-08-23T23:27:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T20:27:49","slug":"constellation-network-x-satoshi-club-ama-recap-from-20th-of-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satoshi-club.esipick.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/23\/constellation-network-x-satoshi-club-ama-recap-from-20th-of-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Constellation Network x Satoshi Club AMA Recap from 20th of August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

The total reward pool was $600 and it was splitted into three parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this AMA Recap we will try to summarize some of the most interesting points for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PART 1, INTRODUCTION AND COMMUNITY\nQUESTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serg | Satoshi Club<\/strong>: Hello! Today our guests are from @constellationcommunity<\/a>. Welcome to Satoshi Club!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irina K.| @Satoshi_Club: <\/strong>How are you today? welcome 😊\nthanks for joining us today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mateo Gold: <\/strong>Hello\neveryone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom: <\/strong>Hey I’m great thank you for asking! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benjamin J Jorgensen: <\/strong>HELLO!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serg | Satoshi Club<\/strong>: For the beginning, please introduce\nthe project and tell us a few words about yourself. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benjamin J Jorgensen: <\/strong>Hello all! We are Constellation\nNetwork – we are protocol that is creating an ecosystem for applications to\ncommunicate with one another. We leverage a directed acyclic graph (dag) for\neffective and efficient data processing. We are a truly decentralized network\nthat focuses on building applications with data assurance. As such we are\nworking closely with the U.S. Air Force and DoD to provide a scalable\ndistributed ledger technology for big data processing and secure data transportation\nstandard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have our core team here – Benjamin Diggles (CRO –\nBusiness Development). Mathias Goldman (COO) and Wyatt Meldman-Floch (CTO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irina K.| @Satoshi_Club: <\/strong>Nice. Did any of you serve in the army?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benjamin J\nJorgensen: <\/strong>No. My entire family did though. Down to the revolutionary war in\nthe US. My grandfather wrote the test for pilots back in WW2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irina K.| @Satoshi_Club: <\/strong>Wow. How comes you didn’t follow their steps?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Irina K.| @Satoshi_Club: <\/strong>Good advice I would say. Kudos to your dad. 🙂<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q1 from Bitcointalk User\ngustafsson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your mainnet is built\non DAG. Why you have chosen DAG? Is it pow or pos?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benjamin J Jorgensen: <\/strong>Well – DAG is an architecture.Proof of Work and Proof of Stake are\nconsensus mechanisms. <\/strong>We chose a dag\nbecause it is a common architecture for distributed systems leveraged by\napplications (like LinkedIn, Twitter, etc). to process and organize data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We wanted to\ncreate a blockchain that could process a TON of transactions and a lot of data\nso that we could create an ecosystem where people built meaningful applications\non top of it. Our consensus mechanism is Proof of Reputable Observation (PRO).\nAnd we use this because it is a programmatic and algorithmic way to effectively\nand efficiently organize the network for speed and security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our\nconsensus is concurrent as well – we run multiple consensuses in parallel –\nwhich is vastly different and more scalable than any other blockchain<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irina K.| @Satoshi_Club: <\/strong>Could you elaborate on programmatic and\nalgorithmic way of organization?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mateo Gold:<\/strong> So, the way to scale an architecture\nis to have multiple consensus rounds in parallel that then feed into a global\nstate of the network and a global consensus. That makes it truly scalable<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benjamin J Jorgensen<\/strong>: Yes – from a high level Wyatt and\nthe core engineers wrote algorithms to organize the data. We score each node on\ntheir reputation (past participation, geo location, uptime, etc.). This then\nallows us to randomize the nodes and the data they validate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irina K.| @Satoshi_Club: <\/strong>How are the nodes formed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benjamin J Jorgensen<\/strong>: We had about 1500 applications for\nnodes to be a part of the network. We ran KYC and interviewed individuals and\norganizations to be a part of the network. We then organized them into batches\nbased on their contribution to Constellation – technology, messaging, and\ninvolvement in building the ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serg | Satoshi Club:<\/strong> Can you tell us which were the most\ninteresting applications? or the funniest ones?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benjamin J Jorgensen:<\/strong> Well – it was one of the most\namazing things I have seen. People from around the world applied and shared\ntheir life stories with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some people\ncame to us after having built ecosystems for other major protocols and were\ninspired by the technology – the potential to evolve blockchain technology –\nand could offer their technical expertise as well as experience governing a\nnetwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the\nfunny ones were one sentence applications that said “I WANT $DAG”. But\nstill funny. It was a humbling experience to see all of these people, from\naround the world – 92 countries – reach out to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q2 from Bitcointalk User nyosant<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Constellation bases consensus on\nreputation, but how is the reputation score for a node determined (i.e., what\nare the main parameters determining reputation)? What would happen when a node deviates\nfrom the expected behavior?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wyatt M-F: <\/strong>To answer a little further we\nessentially have two consensus processes happening in parallel, one for blocks\nand one for converging global state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n