{"id":2034,"date":"2020-10-03T01:52:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T22:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esatoshi.club\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2020-10-03T01:52:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T22:52:28","slug":"gather-network-x-satoshiclub-ama-from-02-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satoshi-club.esipick.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/03\/gather-network-x-satoshiclub-ama-from-02-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Gather Network x SatoshiClub AMA from 02 October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Amarathon continues and Satoshi Club brings you food for your mind every day. Just come and take it. Today we would like to tell you about the AMA session with our friends from Gather Network. The AMA took place on October 02 and our guest was Raghav Reggie Jerath, Founder&CEO of Gather Network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The total reward pool was 1000$ and has been splitted in 3 parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Part\n1 \u2014 introduction <\/strong>and\n<\/strong>questions\nfrom the Telegram<\/strong>&Bitcointalk<\/strong>\ncommunity<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mary | Satoshi Club:<\/strong> Hello, Satoshi Club :grinning: We are happy to announce that today we have Gather Network as our guest :smiley: @RJerath<\/a> welcome to Satoshi Club!!:+1:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D. | Satoshi Club:<\/strong> hello @RJerath<\/a> and welcome to Satoshi club! )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serg | Satoshi Club: <\/strong>Hello! Welcome to Satoshi Club!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reggie – Gather Founder: <\/strong>Hey @Cool_as_Ice<\/a> thanks for the warm welcome, and thank you for hosting Gather! Looking forward to a great AMA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary | Satoshi Club: <\/strong>Hello, Reggie) how are you today?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reggie – Gather Founder: <\/strong>Hey Mary, I’m doing good , how about yourself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary | Satoshi Club: <\/strong>Great, thanks))) Could you please introduce yourself and Gather network? How did you start with Gather project?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reggie – Gather Founder: <\/strong>Started my career in Oil and Gas managing a couple bases in and out of Iraq managing about 200 or so people, was there for about two years or so, ISIS invaded around the end of the two years. Post evacuating the staff. I decided I wanted to shift industries. – I ended up working in advertising for a bit – with different agencies – the first being MSLgroup ( Where I met our Marketing Advisor Naren ). Post this I had my first exposure to entrepreneurship. It was a startup similar to what Deliveroo is – provides the technology and riders, making deliveries for banks, supermarkets etc. Post this – I was hired as a consultant to help a website – to help them figure out how to monetize. – That is where everything started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And for Gather –\nhere if a brief description, and a picture as well:
\nGather is a\nplatform that allows publishers to monetize without ads, provides\nbusinesses & developers to access cheap and reliable processing\npower.
\nGather Online (Layer 0) allows web & mobile\ndevelopers to monetize from their users processing power.
\nGather\nNetwork (Layer1) is the protocol layer, a hybrid proof of work and\nproof of stake blockchain, where stakeholders are incentivized to\nmaintain transparency and security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gather Cloud (Layer\n2) provides affordable processing power to enterprises and\ndevelopers.
\nGather Enterprise provides consultancy services and\ntooling for developers, businesses and crypto networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mary | Satoshi Club: <\/strong>Interesting biography :+1: from Oil to Gather)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reggie – Gather Founder: <\/strong>Hahah, yeap and a few other industries along the way<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary | Satoshi Club: <\/strong>Nowadays you have to have the flexibility to retrain quickly)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reggie – Gather Founder: <\/strong>Indeed, I believe the ability to adapt and be flexible is a key part of achieving success<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D. | Satoshi Club: <\/strong>so how long Gather Network in development? if im not mistaken, this is not a project from yesterday )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reggie – Gather Founder:<\/strong> Roughly we have been around for almost three years, had a very small seed around in 2018 and then the bear market hit hah But this thread explains our history well: https:\/\/twitter.com\/chatwithcharles\/status\/1311042919311253505<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary | Satoshi Club:<\/strong> Yes, but surprisingly i never heard about this project before:smiley:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reggie – Gather Founder: <\/strong>We have only started focusing on marketing now, – we were focused on building the product and fundraising back in 2018\/2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary | Satoshi Club:<\/strong> For me it is a certain indicator of quality) to survive the bear market and not give up)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reggie – Gather Founder: <\/strong>Hah thanks – all of us here at Gather are here for the long haul \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D. | Satoshi Club: <\/strong>yeah, you have tons of articles on medium, but i was surprised that you have launched your project not so long ago<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reggie – Gather Founder:<\/strong> Sorry? We have been around since the start of 2018?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D. | Satoshi Club: <\/strong>i mean trading on exchanges. )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q1 from bitcointalk user vicpocho @vicpocho<\/a> on Telegram<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gather Network project has caught my attention. As a content creator, I want to make sure that I compete in a fairer environment with other creators. Can you give us the confidence that the system is free from manipulation of visits generated by bots? How do moderators already have a way to detect those who do not play fair?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reggie – Gather Founder: <\/strong>This is a good question, since click bots have always been an issue in the ad industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary | Satoshi Club: <\/strong>They are everywhere 🤦<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D. | Satoshi Club: <\/strong>beep boop<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reggie – Gather Founder:<\/strong> Gather would have mitigation strategies in place to detect and warn\/suspend\/ban publishers that partake in un fair practises. – We have a few people from the ad industry on the team, so are well versed with such issues. With that being said, if a publisher goes and pays for click bots here – it would be a net 0 gain for them. Gather pays for time spent, not clicks or cpm and we are based on processing power<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D. | Satoshi Club: <\/strong>did you know, im a bot as well?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary | Satoshi Club: <\/strong>I had suspicions:joy: Let’s see, how @RJerath<\/a> will fight with you:joy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reggie – Gather Founder:<\/strong> You fooled me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D. | Satoshi Club:<\/strong> so there is no point to use bots to make profit from Gather Network?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reggie – Gather Founder: <\/strong>No net incentive – unless the cost of the bots are very very cheap. Since they are required to stay on site – and have the processing power used. Most click bots – come to the site, scroll and then leave – some of them are easy to spot<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary | Satoshi Club:<\/strong> Great) see, @Cool_as_Ice<\/a> ) Gather is not your place:joy: Or we will re-educate you:joy: Ok, next question?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reggie – Gather Founder: <\/strong>Hah for sure lets do it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q2 from bitcointalk user gustafsson @jmalton<\/a> on Telegram<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hello. I would like to talk about your mechanism. It will be a hybrid which will include pow and pos. If you can apply pos already, why use pow as well? isn’t it outdated? we need to conserve the energy of our planet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reggie – Gather Founder: <\/strong>So there are multiple parts to this question: 1) one of the reasons Gather Network will have its own mainnet is to maintain a sustainable Proof of Work consensus, which will be only used by publishers (website and application owners) and will not be open to any external mining options. To make the web\/app mining viable, low processing power is required, and this will be maintained as observed earlier in our prototype testing process. 2) We use the spare and idle compute power – so this not a giant ASIC farm, the idea here it tap into untapped resources<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary\n| Satoshi Club: <\/strong>It’s\nsomething like Decred, yes? Pos\/pow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reggie\n– Gather Founder: <\/strong>I am not\nto familiar with Decred, but if it has a hybrid model, then somewhat\nsimilar yes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary | Satoshi Club:<\/strong> Yes, it has a hybrid model)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D. | Satoshi Club:<\/strong> i think Gather the first project with hybrid that im aware of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reggie – Gather Founder:<\/strong> I believe there have been quite a few others in the past, one the main differences for us is that our master nodes will also be the back bone of Gather Cloud ( The cloud computing product )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary | Satoshi Club: <\/strong>So, what about mainnet?) Is it near or i missed something?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reggie – Gather Founder: <\/strong>So we have an MVP for a while, with a bunch of technical milestones – Merged mining for example, – for major dates we have the TN v.01 shortly – this is just the process of mining $GTH via the browser and then merged mining take place between the parent chain and child chain. Full test net is aimed for 3 months roughly from now and then a main net 6 months from now<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q3 from Telegram user @iulya_i<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please explain Gather Online. Also, what are the skills required to run it? Do I need to know how to code?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reggie – Gather Founder:<\/strong> Not at all Gather online is a brand that has been created to target and acquire websites and applications, Similar to how we have Gather Cloud and Gather Enterprise. As for actual integration purposes – in its current form, once you are whitelisted for the early adopters program, – you will login and from there a small script will be generated for you, you just have to put that on the back end of your website. We also have a video that walks you through step by step of how to do it – specifically for word press based sites. In the future we will come out with plugins, – For Apps we will be releasing a SDK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary | Satoshi Club: <\/strong>And how it will work in simple words? If i will put this script on my site)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reggie – Gather Founder: <\/strong>So no, the average you do not need to be a developer to use Gather hah, but some basic technical knowledge will always help – or just follow the instructional video. Once its on your site your users would see this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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