Bitcloud is going to be based on Tahoe-LAFS

[Ben Laurie]

Cool. I dug a bit deeper, and in
https://github.com/wetube/bitcloud/blob/master/Bitcloud%20Nontechnical%20White%20Paper.md
I notice you talk about cloudcoins, based on proof-of-bandwidth.

This is a scheme I can approve of, given that coins are generated by
doing something useful, rather than just heating up the planet.

But ...

a) What are cloudcoins useful for? Is the idea that they'll magically
acquire value, like Bitcoins do?

b) What about proof-of-storage?

On 2 February 2014 15:21, 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.
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