Re: Introduction - Manu Sporny

On 15 August 2016 at 22:51, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:

> Pindar wrote:
> > Really great that you could join and very much look forward to your
> > contribution.
>
> Very much looking forward to working with you again, Pindar. :)
>
> On 08/09/2016 09:05 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> > Your work in this space continues to be phenomenal, and very much
> > under represented.
>
> Thanks Melvin, as is yours. :)
>
> > Would you be interested in teaming up with a group of enthusiastic
> > block chainers to in order to spread this technology to something
> > more of a proof of concept, eg. backed by a real crypto currency?
>
> Yes, given enough spare cycles to work on it. As you know, we've been
> slammed lately but have more engineers coming online. We've also tried
> to shy away from the crypto-currency portion of Blockchain as it's
> fraught with regulatory challenges. That said, we're always interested
> in collaborating with smart people.
>
> What did you have in mind?
>
> > I think with the right team working together, there would be an
> > opportunity to innovate in the crypto currency space with a web scale
> > offering (some that imho is sorely needed), and also potentially
> > attract investment.
>
> We're always open to ideas on collaborating and your opinions and ours
> have always been more or less aligned in what we want for the next
> generation Web.
>

All good points.

Firstly, regarding regulatory challenges, I think a good solution here
would be to create dev based proof of concept based on the testnet coin
which has pretty much all the properties of bitcoin but they are intended
to be worthless.

The idea would be to get good people together for a collaborative project
that is at the intersection of the web and crypto currencies.  We can
expand on some possible early milestones, because I think there's a lot of
really good things we can now build ...

If pitched the right way, with the right people, it could receive
significant interest in funding, which in turn could fund development.

What could be done would be to either
1 create a new crypto coin and become early adopters, possibly with
premine, possibly ICO, possibly a fair coin
2 reuse an existing coin already on an exchange where we would be granted
rights to the code
3 create a whole new coin concept in the crypto / web space

If as a company DB would not want to be behind a crypto currency
initiative, we could find other vehicles such as open source contribution,
a foundation, personal investments etc.  There's lots of routes.  I think
this is a problem that can be solved.

So I think coming up with a concept and use cases that would be compelling
to the market, and having the right people behind it could be the way ahead.

Things that have been successful to date
- Payments (bitcoin)
- Storage (maidsafe)
- Anonymity (e.g. monero but others)
- Smart Contracts (Ethereum)
- Tipping (Doge)
- Social Rewards (STEEM)
- Clearing (Ripple)
- Shares (Bitshares)
- Naming and Lookup (namecoin)
- Reputation (Bitmark *shameless plug!* :) )
- Combination of features (superNET)

etc.

The web can actually handle all of these use cases and a lot more.  My
personal interest at the moment is around storage, media and search --
which have proven successful business models on the web.

So if there's interest we could try and figure out what low hanging fruit
is ... :)

>
>
> -- manu
>
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> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> blog: The Web Browser API Incubation Anti-Pattern
> http://manu.sporny.org/2016/browser-api-incubation-antipattern/
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