As ArkOS was being discontinued I discovered that I completely misunderstood MaidSafe and thought the SAFE Network was something that could be integrated into Duniter and a self-hosting network, but it’s the other way around and a replacement of self-hosting networks.
That puts things into a very different perspective for me.
Duniter needs to be completely rewritten to integrate into the SAFE Network.
Most important is that the SAFE Network is the only thing that supports cryptocurrencies that scale better than blockchain cryptocurrencies and thus is able to be compete with centralized electronic currencies.
Blockchain is not the future. The SAFE Network is.
I just read about IOTA, a scalable decentralized solution that doesn’t rely on the SAFE Network or the blockchain.
Is Duniter following that route then?
Duniter is not following that road either. Also Ğ1 (pronounce « June ») is already launched, we won’t completely change the core concepts now. We have studied IOAT and think it is not adapted to Duniter (it could, but the cost to change to this architecture will delay Ğ1 growth to 2048, and the benefits are not obivous).
Blockchain is definitely a good solution to have a commonly shared database. Other solutions can be found, but blockchain is really OK to us. I don’t see any acceptable reason why this solution should be rejected.
Should I recall that Duniter’s blockchain != generic blockchain, because it is based on the Web of Trust.