[dirvine]

If people were harassing folk saying we paid them, then that was just false (harassment or not, we don't pay for coin promotions, in fact we don't pay for any promotions).

I wish folk could discuss the project and it's goals. Incentivisation is part, but a really small part of the project. As soon as I see a cryptocurrency comment I just lose faith and have barely any energy to engage. Folk need to forget money/coins and so on and focus first on the function and vision. All you get talking cryptocurrency is "it's a scam", "it's a fraud", "somebody told me X and it was false". Then let's look at some price chart and so on. It is really just a distraction and the arguments have an infinite lifetime. When I see projects on github/lab who mention cryptocurrency way up front I also lose faith. An incentive should not be the vision or function, it's an incentive it should never be a core goal or technology.

[cl0ck3d]

I've been following the project since the early years.

It's a shame that folks look only at surface level.

Dirvine's name is going to ring throughout history for his honesty, integrity, and brilliance.

The MAIDsafe project is the most well developed, well managed in the entire space. I personally don't even look at it as a cryptocurrency, but instead as a project in and of itself.

I've been following MAIDsafe for years I've never seen anyone in the team ever try to hype or crash anything at the project.

They all talk to each other with love and courtesy. Truely an amazing project with amazing people check out their forums. It's where I lurked for years now.

https://safenetforum.org/

[ARandomerDude]

> we don't pay for coin promotions, in fact we don't pay for any promotions

> Incentivisation is part, but a really small part of the project.

It isn't clear to me how to reconcile these statements. Can you elaborate?

[SotRos25]

Incentivization is a part of the product in that Proof of Resource dictates that Farmers (I.e. those who provide resources to the SAFE Network in the form of bandwidth, hard drive space, CPU, etc.) are rewarded for doing so with Safecoin. In a sense it is similar to how POW compensated bitcoin miners. This form of incentivization is autonomously governed by the Network itself, and has nothing to do with paying for promotions. I’d recommend taking a look at the SAFE Network primer to understand more (https://primer.safenetwork.org/)

[ARandomerDude]

Good synopsis, thank you!