That has been my view too, but I kind of lost my faith a bit. I haven’t been following it closely at all, but it has seemed to have a track record of postponing of this and that “promising news” - and I myself have been short tempered.
Easy to lose faith when the market is crushing the price, but Factom are having some genuine adoption, which is nice to see.
Also they have been working hard on development to get the protocol finished and many things put in place. Looks like that hard work is paying off now, and they can concentrate a little more or marketing, etc.
Ironically, SAFENetwork can potentially do a much better job of their goals; it can store both the hash of the documents AND the document itself, both securely.
Indeed, but it’s also about timing and confidence. We (and companies) now know that the various forms of blockchain work stably, and hash+timestamp does the trick for simple verification. SAFE will indeed be better, but we still all use QWERTY keyboards. The sooner people can see proof of concepts on a running SAFE network, the less network effects we will have to overcome later.
There are lots of potential solutions for the timestamp problem, the simplest probably being something like a container file format, with a link to some timestamping service or the last BTC block hash, and the file itself held together (or simply putting some similar timestamp in the document itself … merely recording the date in the document is spoofable). SAFE makes it all possible, just have to roll up the sleeves a bit.
You know the time on a blockchain because a certain block is mined at a specific time, and if I document was hashed to that block it is pretty much impossible to change it. And with bitcoin for example, a block is mined pretty much every 10 mins, so it is fairly easy to calculate backwards to see if the time is accurate.
If I add a birth certificate to SAFE how I can prove that it was done ten years ago and I didn’t just add it yesterday with a date on from ten years ago? A blockchain has this kind of proof built in.
I think what’s valuable in Factom is not only the coin and their blockchain protocol, but the interface they have developed to make file & version verification usable. Maybe that is something that could later be ported to SAFEnetwork, and maybe at some point they could collaborate with Maidsafe to do this.
Also the two token system they have is very interesting and makes it much easier for companies to adopt, knowing how much exactly it will cost to hash a document no matter what the price of a Factoid is.
Wonder if this is linked to the news that Tresor will be supporting Omni assets?
MAID is also fairing well in a day where almost all (other than stable coins) are taking a bit of a kicking.
Yeah you are maybe right Nick about Maidsafe. Also with the crust test and many hoping / thinking Alpha 3 isn’t far away.
Factom is having similar developments, but with the adoption on the top of that, is really helping it get noticed.
If you guys can launch Alpha 3 soon that would be great Normally it would seem best to do it in a bull market, but it may actually get more attention in this bear market with everything else getting beaten. No pressure
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