RE: The Blockchain Just Became 😨 Obsolete 😨, the Future is Hashgraph... or NOT?! 😎
well, now this response is more difficult for me to take issue with! lol :)
I suppose my biggest issue with all this Baird / Hashgraph stuff is that so far I've seen mostly a bunch of marketing hype from what I would consider another one of those groups that actually seems more interested in helping those middlemen maintain control (ie. private, permissioned ledgers), versus something that works towards openly "setting the world free" (I mean, who else will be a "client")?
I also think EOS is a lot closer to actually solving many of these issues, and Dan's solution is completely open-source. Perhaps its the programmer in me, but I also get what Dan says. It makes sense from a practical perspective. Take, for example, his explanation of how they plan to achieve sub-second stable block times. No hype or B.S., just matter-of-fact "how we plan to achieve this":
In order to minimize the number of missed blocks during producer handoff, it is desirable to minimize the latency between consecutive producers. If a producer in New York is scheduled to follow a producer in China it may take 250ms to receive a block under normal conditions (50% of block interval) and potentially much longer if there is network congestion. A producer in New York and Texas on the other hand would only have 50ms of latency (10% of block interval). This means there is a significantly lower probability of missing blocks during a handoff from New York to Texas than from New York to China.
If we schedule block production such that it rotates from New York, to Texas, to California, to Hawaii, to Japan, China, India, Israel, Italy, England, Iceland, and back to New York then there is never a hand off of more than 50 to 100ms. However if the order is randomized then the average hand off will be significantly higher.
Link: EOS.IO DAWN 2.0 Released & Development Update
That said, I think open-source projects such as Bisq.Network are pretty cool too! :)
I'm looking forward to seeing what Dan develops with EOS, but Dan is working not for himself but for Block One. I am very glad to see it is Open Source, but have to say that I am still very suspicious of Block One, especially considering the BS ICO tactics that BlockOne have used to date. Everything about how this ICO has been done has been a disaster in my view. Let's see what EOS is when it arrives as a usable platform.
I've written another post sometime back about EOS and the naming and branding of EOS by Block One makes me very suspicious as well. (So you still may have something to take issue with. :) I have been studying occult symbolism for a long time because those in power are almost always involved in secret societies that use very specific symbolism to advertise their plans and control. They almost always give us hints to their agendas in symbols rather than words.
Eos is the Greek goddess of the Dawn and the mother of Lucifer, the morning star (a.k.a. Eos-phoros). This is a veiled reference to Lucifer worship that was used most prominently in late 1800s and early 1900s. (Have a look at another previous post here for more on this.) Just as an example of this, if you go to Newport, RI and see the handful of Vanderbilt and other Gilded Age mansions there that are open to the public, three of them have massive centerpiece murals of Eos on the ceiling. Why? Because just like the Obama logo and tagline, they saw themselves as bringing in "the dawn of a new day." The Soviets used this symbolism very prominently as well since Lenin and Trotsky were Freemasons in Brooklyn before they headed over to start the "people's revolution" funded by the most powerful bankers in the world at that time. I'm not saying that EOS is therefore absolutely not to be trusted, but I watch all the actions of the people that are involved in major initiatives and I can tell you that I don't like a number of things with Block One to date. This symbolism definitely concerns me as part of the story because it is by no means a mistake on their part. They know exactly what this symbolism means even if the vast majority of the uninitiated populace have no idea what it really means.
Hopefully this doesn't weird you out too much, but I reference it simply because just as you are wondering about motivations with Hashgraph, I am also wondering about motivations with Block One and EOS.
BTW, thanks for the tip on Bisq. I'll happily have a closer look.
you might find some of our hangouts and "after-party" discussions quite interesting... stop by next time if you have a chance! :) lol
Link: BitShares Hangout #52 | 2017-12-30 | Sat @200PM UTC | OpenSource Agenda [Beyondbit Payouts Powered by SP!]
(and that's all I'll say about that, for now! lol)
Thanks very much for the invite.. I'll be sure to stop by.
EOS ico will produce the most decentralized blockchain in terms of users and accounts. It has worked so bloody well - DPOS hinges on a wide and varied voting base so individual actors can not get control of the network. Block one has the most shares, owning 10% of the network. The next biggest whale owns less than 1% of the network. More than 80% of the network is owned by ethereum accounts that hold 10,000 or less EOS.
This ICO is a slam dunk. Look at steem or bitshares of Bitcoin for that matter where 98% of accounts own like 2% of the Bitcoin or something stupid.