Count me in on bounty too!
me three . I like Helium and its platform it will make DASH a run for the money with service nodes.
Has Helium provided any details on how service nodes will work? I might be a little out of date but the last I heard, Dash were struggling with Proof of Service themselves.
Is there going to be a testnet that is accessible to the public before launch in September?
Finally, has the service node model been submitted for academic review, even if the details are being kept private for now?
My English not very good. What is Proof of Service?
I like the sound of that. Sounds, interesting.
The service node model is a service provision network which is covered in the white paper.
Essentially, if a service provider doesn't provide a service, you stop paying them and move on to another service provider. That's where the Uber or TripAdvisor style ratings model helps. Both parties to a service transaction can rate each other. Bad actors on both sides get weeded out of the network.
The trick with our service node model will be the Service Node provider setting up an encrypted channel so that a user can access their nodes securely. The area of more detailed effort on our part will be adding a hardware component so that the user can generate private keys locally thus avoiding having to trust the Service Node provider.
Did you have a particular academic in mind to send the paper to? Drop me an email, I'd be more than up for sending it for review or giving access to a PhD candidate.
Wow. My English got better the more I typed.
I must have got the wrong end of the stick, my bad.
I assumed that you were going in a different direction to that. Academic review won't be needed if you're not going down the cryptographic proof path. It will be real interesting to see how this pans out, free markets are free markets after all.
