Bitcloud is going to be based on Tahoe-LAFS

[(P7N) Jason Johnson]

Is this a huge public grid that anyone would use. Or is it just to deliver local content? Is cost based on use or account types?

David Irvine <david.irvine at maidsafe.net> wrote:
>It's all interesting, for a private network though can you explain some
>of
>the docs a bit more, for instance what does this mean
>
>* Accounting for individual downloads of content means charging for
>content
>becomes trivial to implement
>
>I don't understand, will you charge for downloads or content ? Or do
>you
>mean the network takes a charge and repays this with services?
>
>Some early indications of actual design, programming language etc.
>would
>help everyone help you a bit I think. Having developers ready may
>require a
>lot of detailed implementation guidelines or possibly very close
>management.
>
>Can you explain the business model as well, if you have a marketing
>person,
>is there a revenue model and or company involved?
>
>Hope these questions help and not hinder. It's all very fast and I
>think
>some more info would help us all. I am also keen to know how the
>integration with bitcoin is envisaged, will the blockchain be affected
>at
>all?
>
>
>
>
>On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Javier R. Sobrino
><liberman at riseup.net>wrote:
>
>> Hello there!
>>
>> I'm the main developer of Bitcloud, and we are planning to create a
>> global cloud storage system based on your ideas.
>>
>> The proposed modifications, written by Dr-Syn (one of the founders)
>to
>> your system are here:
>>
>> https://github.com/wetube/bitcloud/blob/master/overview.org
>>
>> After Bitcloud, we plan to create DAOs (Distributed Application
>> Organizations), like Wetube, that are going to serve multimedia files
>> globally and will have their own currency or stock.
>>
>> The protocol itself will be free of any organization, as we plan to
>> replace the entire way in which Internet is structured right now.
>>
>> I'd like to know if any of you guys are interested in helping us in
>some
>> way. We got a lot of attention from the media the last days and have
>> many developers ready to program, once of course we can finish the
>design.
>> We can add any of you interested to the core team of Bitcloud.
>>
>> Finally we are going to do a donation campaign that we think it is
>going
>> to be a success, taking in count that we have been linked in some
>major
>> news site like the BBC and we have a genius in the marketing
>department
>> (Kyle Torpey):
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25858629
>>
>>
>> We have open a forum that you can check here, with many interesting
>> technical threads:
>>
>> http://talk.bitcloudproject.org/
>>
>> And we are also discussing some ideas in:
>>
>> https://github.com/wetube/bitcloud/issues?state=open
>>
>>
>> For any doubts or concerns you can answer to me directly or to the
>list,
>> if the moderators don't have any inconvenience.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Javier.
>> _______________________________________________
>> tahoe-dev mailing list
>> tahoe-dev at tahoe-lafs.org
>> https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
>>
>
>
>
>-- 
>
>David Irvine
>maidsafe.net <http://www.maidsafe.net/>
>twitter: @metaquestions
>blog:  http://metaquestions.me
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>_______________________________________________
>tahoe-dev mailing list
>tahoe-dev at tahoe-lafs.org
>https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

-- 
On the phone. Please excuse my brevity.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/attachments/20140202/a117341b/attachment.html>