Maidsafe autonomi Appendices

A. Unofficial FAQ

This section answers some questions that we could not easily find elsewhere. You can check the official FAQ for other questions. A list of acronyms is here.

Terminology

Glossary and Acronyms wiki

Clearnetwork: Refers to the Internet as we know it today, which is what SAFE Network will replace.

MAIDSAFE: “Massive Array of Internet Disks, Secure Access For Everyone”, the name of the entity leading the development of the SAFE Network.

MVP: Minimum Viable Product: As defined in 2016, not the final product with messaging and SafeCoin, but a working network for storage, that may not guarantee perpetual data storage yet as it would be un-paid. In 2019 the meaning has changed, and replaced by a concrete roadmap. In 2024 again a new roadmap was presented.

PARSEC: Protocol for Asynchronous, Reliable, Secure and Efficient Consensus: An open sourced library

SAFE Network: “Secure Access for Everyone Network”, the name of the new Internet.

B. History and Timeline

What happened in the past 20 years or so?

2006: David Irvine’s first plans of a SAFE Network
- February 22, 2016: MaidSafe.net was founded
2007: David Irvine completes a PoC in Python
2008
2009: Start of MaidSafeDHT and MaidsSafePD development, rewrite portions in C++
2010: Founding of MaidSafe Foundation (and MaidSafe Inc.?) to protect technology from trolls and corporations
- David Irvine donates all of his 80% share in the company – 50% to foundation, 30% to EBT(=?)
2011
2012: MaidSafeDHT replaced by RUDP (=?) and Routing
2013: Vault code re-write from scratch completed and all libraries are open-sourced
2014: Raising 8M$ of funding through MAID ICO
2015
2016
2017: MAIDSafe team expanded to 30+ people; front and back-end teams
2018: The PARSEC Milestone is completed
2019: Significant non-technical staff reduction; refocus on core product
2020
2021: Fleming test nets launched
2022
2023
2024: Announcement of beta and new CEO to prepare for launch

2018 post

Tidbits

Sigmoid x was a company that was later folded into MaidSafe.
MaidSafe has sponsored work at Strathclyde University in the past.

C. People

(who are those people on the forum and what are their interests? Categories? Who are most well-known? Ranking by date of first post?)

MAIDSafe Team on the SAFE Network Forum

SAFE Network Forum Moderator Team

Official SAFE Ambassadors: @dimitar (Bulgaria); @Sotros25 (US); @oetyng (Sweden)

Community Contributors

Somewhat arbitrary and incomplete list of people and their projects. Add your SAFE Network community heroes here.

@happybeing since April 2014 and still active, e.g. SAFEDrive, Vdash
@dimitar since August 2014, e.g. First SAFE Ambassador (Bulgaria)

D. Corporate Organization

Leaders:

2006- Founder&CEO: David Irvine
2024- CEO: Sarah Buxton (Bux)

MaidSafe (UK)

MaidSafe.Net (SC297540) filing records

Incorporated: 22 February 2006
Registered office address: 6 Forbes Drive, Heathfield Industrial Estate, Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland, KA8 9FG
Annual return and shareholders report of March 2016

SafeNetwork Foundation (UK) – Scottish charity

SafeNetwork Foundation (SC042032)

Registered Charity from: 20 January 2011
Registered office address: 6 Forbes Drive, Heathfield Industrial Estate, Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland, KA8 9FG
Holds less than 50% of the shares of MaidSafe.Net.
Financials end 2018

Project Reorganization and Loan Program: November 2019

To lower burn rate and focus on core product, MAIDSafe closes 2 offices and reduces staff update.
Holders of 100,000 MAID or more now may enter into a contract to lend their coins to MAIDSafe for a 50% return once SAFE Network launches.

SafeNetwork Foundation (Switzerland)

Maidsafe Foundation is being incorporated in Switzerland (2022)

E. Patents and Trademarks

Relevant forum posts: March 2018, June 2019.

E.2 Patents

(This is a community best effort list. Do not rely on this information for any purpose, do your own research and obtain your professional advice.) Believed to be up to date as of June 2019.

USPTO
WIPO

E.2.1 Patents Granted (US)

US8,386,786 File system authentication David Irvine, exp. 2027
US8,788,803 Self-encryption process MaidSafe Foundation, exp. 2027
US9,411,976 Communication system and method MaidSafe Foundation, exp. 2027
US9,135,455 Distributed file system MaidSafe Foundation, exp. 2031
US9,485,090 Managed authentication on a distributed network Sigmoid Solutions, exp. 2032

E.2.2 Patent Applications (US)

US20100037060 granted: US8,386,786
US20100058054 MSSAN abandoned
US20100064354 Maidsafe.net abandoned
US20120210120 granted: US8,788,803
US20120311339 Method for storing data on peer-to-peer network: abandoned
US20130061049 Distributed network system: abandoned
US20130262865 granted: US9,135,455
US20140237614 granted: US9,411,976
US20150006895 Distributed network system: abandoned
US20150127950 Method of encrypting data: abandoned
US20150026474 granted: US9,485,090
US20160275294 Data system and method: abandoned
US20170005788 Communication system and method: abandoned
US20190036895 Data distribution over nodal elements pending

E.2.3 Published Applications (Worldwide)

GB201803678 Data transaction system and method pending
WO/2017/202503: Apparatus and method of creating a data chain… pending
WO/2012/131369: e.g. see US9,485,090
WO/2012/080744: e.g. see US9,135,455
WO/2008/065341: Distributed Network System published
WO/2008/065348: Perpetual Data published
WO/2008/065349: Worldwide voting system published
WO/2008/065343: Shared access to private files published
WO/2008/065344: Anonymous authentication published
WO/2008/065342: Data maps published
WO/2008/065347: MSSAN published
WO/2008/065345: Cyber cash published
WO/2008/065346: Secure message and data sharing published
WO/2008/065351: e.g. see US8,788,803
WO/2008/003923: e.g. see US8,386,786

Other

Litecoin-based key-value data store Kevacoin (whitepaper)
- 3072 bytes value limit, perpetual availability, KVA crypto/mined
Bitcoin fork Namecoin DNS (.bit TLD)
- 520 bytes value limit, renewable availability, NMC crypto/mined
- Namecoin+OpenID=NameID (replaces OpenID)

G. Lists of Resources

(Note that some information may have become outdated and incorrect.)

Repositories

Github

Github Archive (Deprecated/archived repositories)

Useful Resources Online

SAFE Project whitepaper

Safenetwork.org ‘Community’ Links

Safenetwork.org ‘Documentation’ Links

Introductions by MaidSafe and community

SAFE Crossroads

Safe Network explained

Fundamental Principles

Fundamentals 1/2

Fundamentals 2/2

App Directory

SAFE Network apps

David’s Blog

metaquestions.me

The impossible network

Third Party Introductions

Links from around the web

Introductions by third parties

SAFE Network for Dummies

SafeNetwork Roadmaps and Updates

Updates category, 2014-
Official Roadmap (old, 2020)

MaidSafe Activities and Groups

H. Philosophy

Perpetuity

(What does it mean to store information forever? What is forever? What is the scope of SAFE Network, and what will be needed to achieve true perpetual storage?)

A list of measures against which to measure “perpetuity”

Civilization – 336 years
Civilizations – collapse
Lifetime – 89 years
Generation – 31 years
Solar cycle – 11 years
OS Support cycle – 10 years