How would you characterize the relationship between Ethereum, Factom, and MaidSafe?PaulSnow 17 hours ago:
Ethereum provides smart contracts, Maidsafe provides document storage, and Factom provides data integrity and versioning.
All three work together, and while there is some overlap, I can envision applications that use all three.
bbaker6212 13 hours ago:
Maybe you can envision it, but can you imagine how much work it would take? That's a hellofa lot of work for a programmer to make an app that uses 3 different systems/API/interfaces and perhaps languages as well.
PaulSnow 12 hours ago:
Not really. Factom will be putting Anchors in Ethereum, so the cryptographic proofs work with only Ethereum under an app. Accessing Factom requires web service calls, so you don't have to use a particular language.
We have some sample Java code, and the code can sign requests to build chains and add entries, and doesn't require a great deal of programming on the part of the developer to use Factom.
The idea behind the data layer is to keep things simple from various perspectives, and provide a layer multiple apps (one based on Ethereum, another on Bitcoin, etc.) can still leverage the same data.
https://www.reddit.com/r/factom/comments/491bvx/how_would_you_characterize_the_relationship/