MaidSafe Dev Update - September 7, 2017

[JPL]

May I modestly suggest you start with

10 key facts about Safe Network

[10] A lot of good progress is being made now with the arrival and rapid iteration of the Fleming testnets. This thread pulls together key facts for three groups: 1) new people who want to find out what Safe is and maybe participate in the test nets, 2) crypto-folks and 3) developers interested in creating apps for Safe. The facts are deliberately short and simple, because I update them every now and again (although not nearly as often as I should of late… ). For a more in-depth …

It needs updating to take in the latest developments but the information is mostly current.

Then you might move on to the excellent:

The Documentation Topic

For those that want to dive a bit deeper into the SAFE Network, I’ll post a bunch of links to documentation below. It should be readable even if you’re not a developer. If you want to dive even deeper and to develop using the APIs, make sure to check the SAFE Dev Forum. The idea for the SAFE Network is to provide a distributed filesystem MaidSafe Distributed File System SAFE was thought to be impossible The impossible network The network uses cryptographic keys to communicate/authenticat…

And if you want to get into the nitty griitty, the equally excellent but more technical:

SAFE Network Explained: Architecture

To address an ongoing demand for an overview document of the SAFE network, I have written what I believe to be a reasonably succinct summary of the architecture of the network. Sure it’s a complex system, but I believe it can be explained in a way most people can understand. Here’s my attempt at doing that: https://safe-network-explained.github.io/architecture The focus is on conceptual understanding rather than technical exactitude. There’s no mathematics or code in the document. I hope the …

There’s also the MaidSafe blog of course https://blog.maidsafe.net/, and the founder’s blog https://metaquestions.me/ .

Edit: … and I forgot one: SAFE Network for Dummies