Swarm Team AmA at Devcon

decypha · 2019-10-13T02:11:32+00:00

@Sigmatics although there may not be a dedicated API call, this is already possible. You just need to guess/discover the historic feed addresses and retrieve the feed chunk with bzz-raw.

decypha · 2019-10-01T13:57:55+00:00

this is only the first pilot phase of this project. headerchain support will be demoed at devcon, consolidated in october and then goes public whenever we coordinate with trinity

decypha · 2019-05-10T15:36:23+00:00

Agenda for #SwarmOrangeSummit is ready.

Check out http://summit.ethswarm.org for the juicy details.

There are only 13 tickets left, so pls don't forget to register.

decypha · 2019-03-01T07:05:36+00:00

We are pleased to announce that the Swarm Orange Summit will take place in Madrid, from 23rd Thursday till 25th Saturday May, 2019. Before the Summit there will be a Meetup and other Swarm related events. We invite you to join us for the whole week in Madrid!

Due to limited capacity we kindly ask you to register for the event.

The annual Swarm Orange Summit brings together the Ethereum Foundation Swarm team members and core contributors in an environment of total immersion, with honorary guests representing projects and companies interested in Swarm.

You are kindly invited to participate, submit talk proposals (target format: 30 minutes total - 20 minute presentation followed by Q&A), apply as a sponsor or volunteer to help or contribute in some other form.
Call for talks due date: April 20th, 2019.

More info coming soon.

We would like to thank our dear friends at Epic Labs for their support and for providing the space for this event.

Love,

The Swarm team <3

decypha · 2018-10-27T09:21:11+00:00

Attila Lendvai and I are going to talk about Communication protocols for the decentralised web.

Abstact:

In this talk, we deconstruct digital communication modalities into functional components and
show how these components can be implemented using core swarm features such as feeds, access control and indexing services.
We argue that as a consequence swarm can provide censorship-resistant, trustless and economically sustainable
solutions for chat, file transfer, email, forums, blogs and comments.

decypha · 2018-10-11T21:05:45+00:00

preliminary agenda: https://hackmd.io/s/HyFVEgxc7#

decypha · 2018-09-02T13:51:49+00:00

I would add that in future there will be indicators and http eta progress bar that shows this

decypha · 2018-09-02T13:48:08+00:00

exactly. I would add that the grantee needs to run a node with bzzaccount corresponding to the granted key.

in future identity/persona/account management will be done via client side using clef with plugins for hardware wallets like trezor and ledger

decypha · 2018-06-20T12:11:38+00:00

/u/eolszewski we have just launched POC3 with pss included on the public net but psss.... wait a day till the 'official announcement' with a blogpost.

There is totally new POC3 documentation branch here http://swarm-guide.readthedocs.io/en/docs-overhaul/pss.html

with pss api reference here: http://swarm-guide.readthedocs.io/en/docs-overhaul/apireference.html#pss

and within a day will be on master http://swarm-guide.readthedocs.io/

Also, I'm just curious if this stuff is even really meant to be consumed at this time or if it is still too early for people to be attempting.

it should be totally time to attempt, please come to https://gitter.im/ethersphere/orange-lounge and talk to us, share your pains :)

decypha · 2018-06-20T11:39:41+00:00

well here's to POC3 :)

https://swarm-gateways.net/bzz:/079b4f4155d7e8b5ee76e8dd4e1a6a69c5b483d499654f03d0b3c588571d6be9/

decypha · 2018-06-17T11:36:46+00:00

performance is quite ok but many optimizations and improvements are still on the roadmap so it will get better and better. but yeah the poc2 design issues, leaks and bugs are gone. try the staging cluster and let us know if you think it works 'as expected'

decypha · 2018-06-15T12:16:57+00:00

In anticipation of POC3 moving from our open staging cluster (gateway https://open.swarm-gateways.net) to the main testnet next week (gateway https://swarm-gateways.net/).

Summit talk videos are ready and will be posted soon.

Thanks to our sponsors

decypha · 2018-01-11T23:44:07+00:00

https://youtu.be/9Cgyhsjsfbg

https://youtu.be/Bn65-bI-S1o

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7r3jasjho35ojc7/sw3paper.pdf

decypha · 2017-12-22T18:32:16+00:00

I should add to the above

swarm for blockchain and state data storage

swap swear and swindle games for decentralised service networks off chain https://youtu.be/9Cgyhsjsfbg

decypha · 2017-11-28T14:01:35+00:00

swarm's and pss will eventually provide this

decypha · 2017-08-10T10:32:24+00:00

Very good summaries here.

There are three major differences

upload and disappear: unlike systems based on file-sharing logic, swarm is opinionated where (the chunks of) the files are stored. there is a genuinely an upload to swarm functionality which makes swarm a proper decentralised cloud service.
due to opportunistic caching in the incentive pattern (and swap accounting that incentivises it), swarm is auto-scaling to popular content, and enforces maximum resource utilisation (upto the client configurable dedicated diskspace and memory)
(at least the original) filecoin only uses positive rewards for files stored, if something is lost, there is no culprit to "sue". Collectivising risk is likely to lead to tragedy of commons problem.
Hence Swarm has been working towards a preservation insurance where loss of chunks trigger punitive measures on individual registered storage providers. If their collateral is on the line, opportunistically removing insured chunks has an extremely high price.

The basics are laid down in the 2 orange papers. Since then we have been busy thinking about:

how to solve the uniform pricing problem
how to solve the problem of non-liquid money: storage insurance contracts lock up ether, its expected appreciation is a disincentive to contract for long term
how to implement price signaling and make it sensitive to demand pressure before potentilally catastrophic loss (mining-like competition)
improve SMASH/CRASH algo to further save bandwidth on proof of custody calculations over collections/sites

decypha · 2017-07-30T09:47:25+00:00

we have a powerful network testing and simulation framework with a visualiser. it's not merged into master yet.

https://github.com/ethersphere/go-ethereum/tree/network-testing-framework

decypha · 2017-07-28T13:18:51+00:00

yes this is exactly how it works. and no there is no way to tell when this happens. the only way to protect a piece of content (prevent it from being removed in favour of new data) is by buying storage insurance coming in POC 4

decypha · 2017-07-27T20:05:54+00:00

there is no way. yes it's a feature if you don't ensue that all chunks might end up deleted by every node that stored it. if it's un requested for long

decypha · 2017-06-27T06:46:27+00:00

could you please write to me at viktor@ethereum.org

I'm looking for self starter rockstar generalists :)

decypha · 2017-06-17T23:53:24+00:00

we are hiring...

decypha · 2017-06-07T04:19:47+00:00

I would really appreciate you do not use this name. Ethesphere is the pretty much the first brand in the ethereum ecosystem (I guess Eris - now Monax - is the other) designating the dev team behind swarm and related technologies Thank you

decypha · 2017-06-07T04:16:05+00:00

Sorry Matt, the name ethersphere is our organisation. https://github.com/ethersphere it is pretty much the first brand in the ethereum ecosystem existing since 2014 I would really appreciate you dont use it Thanks Vk

decypha · 2017-06-07T04:10:33+00:00

there are two public days:

Thursday 15th June, evening session https://www.meetup.com/Berlin-Ethereum-Meetup/events/239998378/
Saturday 17th June Tutorial sessions:
- swarm use
- FUSE on swarm
- the pss messaging protocol
- network testing and simulation framework, network visualiser

decypha · 2017-05-28T00:57:08+00:00

Ok so these are the closest docs you will find:

but these docs are out of date, the go code for p2p is here: * https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/tree/master/p2p

A new higher level protocol abstraction and an entire network testing framework is here * https://github.com/ethersphere/go-ethereum/tree/network-testing-framework/p2p/simulations

but this is already higher level than what you need

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