Reserved for future announcements

Look like your project has many service that's very unique, I read about email service, in your email service need some money to attach file to prevent spam and user need additional money in his account to message public figure, this is really good solution. Your project goal very promising, but i need to know, do you have any plan to open your team identity?

that was a nice idea until I read:

"That’s why we have chosen to build on top of Ethereum code"

Game over for me. You cannot build a serious project on top of Ethereum, sorry. That's a fact IMO.

example:

https://blog.aragon.one/aragon-chain

ok, sure. I'll wait to read the whitepaper and see the demo.

You are ambitious and that's good 

This seems really interesting, gonna read the litepaper today
i already have an idea of how people COULD do this, as the idea has been floating in the space for years
will be interesting to read your paper and see what you guys have come up with.  If i had to guess its some form of the age old IPFS
well see tho.   Good Luck as you move forward! One to watch right here for sure

Boring technical details of the protocol specification.

• Unlike Google, rogue employees, hackers and government agencies will not be able to read your emails, chats, Google documents, and listen in on your Hangouts calls and archive them forever
• Unlike Google, Point Network won't delete all your stuff because the developers feel like doing so
• Unlike with Google Search, you will not get your system infected via a 0-day exploit when you're searching for a blacklisted term.

And so on... Hopefully this made you more curious and gave you some incentive to read through the rest of the paper.

A number of valid concerns. Please note we do not ask for your money in any way, at least right now, so there's no obligation on our side to dox ourselves just yet. However, I believe we will publish full disclosure very soon.

The length of the paper is an issue, thanks for the feedback on that, we're working on making it more compact.

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Thanks aleix and CjMapope! We'll do our best.

2CjMapope: yes, it's more than IPFS.

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They seem to be focused solely on IoT (internet of things). Which is fine. Other projects are focused on decentralized finance, others on decentralized exchanges, collectibles, games and so on.

Point Network is a lower-level protocol that would be able to provide a unified infrastructure for all such projects, should they wish to use it.

Think TCP/IP and HTTP, which enabled all kinds of normal websites and web 2.0 applications to exist on top of it.

Actually, just to make it clear, we do not charge anything.

We're going to create an automated market for decentralized cloud providers (storage providers) and the customers. You could easily be a storage provider too if you want, and they'll pay you. Since storage providers would compete for the clients, the market forces of supply and demand would determine the prices, which would stay competitive.

Our operations are to be supported by sources standard to most cryptocurrencies - donations and the issuance of a utility token, certainly not by providing centralized cloud services, as it would defeat the whole purpose.

On the main topic though, I assume you're still paying for your internet access to your internet provider? If you remember, at first we also used to pay them per kilobyte, then per megabyte, and now we have fixed cost plans. We expect some big storage providers to absorb risk the same way and offer similar plans in the future. It's a free market.


Indeed. Please also remember that "If you're not paying for a product, you are the product" (c)

Miners in Proof-of-Work are incentivized by block rewards and transaction fees not to leave the system. Stakers in Proof-of-Stake (which we prefer) are incentivized by the same, as long as there's demand. That's how the network stays up.

The code would be Open Source. If the developers, like you say, "get tired", or get served with a cease-and-desist by governments, we implore the community to take over, fork the code and pick up from where we stopped.

Similar to any other crypto project.


Not really: https://time.com/4004192/google-data-lightning-belgium/ (from a quick search just now, there have probably been some more recent incidents)

Hopefully, they do some more redundancy now for everyone's data, but they still retain total control over it. In Point Network, your data is copied onto N storage providers throughout the world, where N = your preferred level of redundancy. The storage providers are incentivized not to lose it, because they would have lost the collateral locked up in the smart contract.

No, just that message We wanted to take the second message space before the 'Klingon translation reserved' spammers would. Now that we did that from the main account, that one's no longer needed.

I like your project idea, but why don't you show the project team? I hope in the future you will display it, as well as social media accounts and telegram channels for discussion