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39 sats \ 3 replies \ @n0x 10 Apr 2022 freebie
my only concern is the intelligence/us army/military contractors background the founders have and key staff have.
check out their linkedin profiles:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-stites-5231958/details/experience/ (co-founder and CTO)
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-lemeur-637a0018/ (business ops)
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/stewart-summers-29119162/details/experience/ (security)
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @holzapfelbaum 10 Apr 2022
Also backed by Strategic Cyber Ventures, which names among its exec team and board of directors for its SPAC former Director of National Intelligence (and Senator/Rep from IN) Dan Coats:
https://scvx.com/
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13 sats \ 0 replies \ @cozy 11 Apr 2022
What's wrong with the US military? They invented the internet. They invented duct tape. Most nuclear energy advancements started in the US military. Satellite navigation. Tang, lol. etc etc. The US military invests in research for new technologies that are designed to be competitive against equally large anti-competitive forces (Russia, North Korea, China). Individuals in their own jurisdiction are responsible for keeping them accountable, and no one is more critical of America than Americans.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @starbuilder OP 11 Apr 2022
thanks for sharing. this is a great intel..!
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155 sats \ 1 reply \ @G 10 Apr 2022 freebie
I'm very interested, it seems like a cool concept, but i won't be excited until i see it working and know what their business model is.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @starbuilder OP 10 Apr 2022
agree. i want to use it as well if everything works as the demo on stage..!
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217 sats \ 1 reply \ @fiatjaf 11 Apr 2022
Snake oil.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @starbuilder OP 11 Apr 2022
that sums it up for me...!
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19 sats \ 0 replies \ @1fatmess 10 Apr 2022 freebie
I don't believe it's a good use of LN; personally fall into the LN as primarily a liquidity network for payments camp.
As others have said, trying to do too much at once, and then the hype-y marketing leads me to believe that the actual product experience will be quite drastically different from the demo (I can't see how we're going to be able to stream video in good quality based on the latency from tor connections to nodes in wallet apps).
But let's see -- like most folks, I want a product like this to exist, so good that they're taking it on.
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18 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlueSlime 10 Apr 2022
I have yet to be sold on the idea of using the lightning network to transfer anything but bitcoin liquidity. We have DHT, Tor, STUN, and many other methods for facilitating peer to peer.
Trying to facilitate data over lightning seems like an unnecessary hack, similar to "everything can run on the block chain." I'm open to being proven wrong, though.
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101 sats \ 1 reply \ @jeff 10 Apr 2022
Optimistic that there is innovation in the bundling.
Skeptical about the trade-offs necessary for a sustainable business model.
Either way, it's good for bitcoin.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @starbuilder OP 10 Apr 2022
Experiments are good.. but hype and scam are bad... for bitcoin.
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2 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheBTCManual 10 Apr 2022
It looks cool, but I don't understand yet how it works from a network and infrastructure perspective, do I need to run it on my LN node, which I'd prefer to keep just for bitcoin or have a secondary device for it, and what are the requirements and costs involved.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @starbuilder OP 10 Apr 2022
One thing I understand is that they send 1 sat through key_send back and forth to keep a tunnel open. Is the lightning network even ready to support sending billions of 1 sat across??
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @shyfire 10 Apr 2022
Trying to do too many things at once
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0391398253 11 Apr 2022
Don't know what to expect. Love the idea of integrating lightning and move to a web where you pay for content instead of being the product, but don't if they are building that.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @goon_retired_acc 11 Apr 2022
I'd love to see it being what they promise but I'm pretty certain it's an awful crew with skewed incentives.
I'll give it a wide berth.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 10 Apr 2022
Hard to have an opinion on something you haven’t used. It’s awesome if they provide what they aim to
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 10 Apr 2022
Development is taking some time. I’m curious when they will release.
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @kr 10 Apr 2022
Is it available for anyone to try today?
I know they made an announcement this week, but I don't see any links on their site to actually try the browser.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @starbuilder OP 10 Apr 2022
Yes. still in closed beta. FB and Google came into existence by not announcing it in a conference.. but by making it work for small number of users.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @kr 10 Apr 2022
Ah I see, do you know when they expect to roll it out more broadly?
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69 sats \ 1 reply \ @starbuilder OP 10 Apr 2022
At the conf demo they mentioned in the coming weeks.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr 10 Apr 2022
awesome, thanks!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @iampigman 10 Apr 2022 freebie
I'm very interested and expecting to build on top of it pending what the UX/centralized dependencies are. We still need decentralized storage and serverless paid with lightning but p2p + lightning dns + ion/DiD + self hosted with fallback web2 is a solid foundation.
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @KyleOfTheCorn 10 Apr 2022 freebie
I'm personally not interested unless they're FOSS. Their EULA is also laughable, but this has been discussed before.