We’ll get one out tomorrow, John. As you say very difficult/impossible to communicate something like this succinctly to the general press.
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Just say: PARSEC is how computers talk to each other and Politely communicate, when humans are not listening, 
This is bigger than when satoshi introduced bitcoin in my opinion
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Very clever metaphor!
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I think this has to be pitched as a blockchain killer. I mean as far as I can see thats exactly what this is.
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Congrats everyone @maidsafe. You really are helping create a new world and you are getting me one step closer to becoming a full time maidsafer. Lots of ideas for when the time comes.
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Great work! Exactly what is needed. Let’s get one on cryptotechnology too, although I don’t think you can post links, so maybe best to just post the text.
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Yes, love it…
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Just WOW, again WOW oh one more time WOW
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Just a little technical question here… In practice, in SAFE…
Assuming we have a group of 20 nodes in a group reaching consensus… And we get a message from the other end (in XOR) of the network… Is there a way to verify them as a real and honest group as well?? Those 20 nodes only know that much about there own area…
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Maidsafe, Thank you for the great job!!!
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Don’t worry @tobbetj, we fully intend to 
There’s a time to be humble. And then then there’s a time to be… a little louder (slight understatement) 
The team have done an amazing job, it’d be a crime for it not to hit the headlines…!
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@anon40790172, that’s what Secure Message Relay is about. PARSEC doesn’t directly affect this as PARSEC is framed for us in the context of a Section.
Note that you picked the size of 20 as an example, which would have been about right back when we needed N^2 communications to spread data. With gossip, though that becomes N*log(N), so the typical size should be expected to be much increased in the future.
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Reading through and soaking it all up still… amazing… really amazing! 
Great name too! PARSEC is pithy and futuristic sounding. Ideal for a network which will end up spanning planets! 
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So far it’s been amazing to try and understand the whitepaper and RFC. The implications of this seem to be extremely promising — also for SAFE. Amazing work, @pierrechevalier83, @bart, Qi Ma and @ustulation, and the rest of the team that made this possible!
I’m so enthusiastic about this!
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Enjoy your trek. Machu Picchu’s Somewhere I’ve always wanted to go.
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Wow this IS huge, I was worried since ive never seen the team be this excited in all the years ive followed this project. Well done guys, this certainly deserves alot of attention. Super excited about further progress and the other parts to be released in upcoming weeks.
Quick question regarding this part: “We prove the algorithm’s correctness provided that less than a third of
participating nodes are faulty”. What happens if 34% of nodes are faulty? Would that be seen as a 51% attack when talking about blockchain? Is this prevented in any way considering other features in maid such as privacy and so forth? Yes as it wont be possible to tell how many nodes there are and thus what percentage is needed but you could still kind of brute-force attack the network for malicious intent. I dont see this as a problem at scale but in infancy stages…?
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Well done maidsafe, incredible work
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Indeed - I love the name… especially the middle 4 letters, indicating its role in enabling the ‘perfect back end’
Fantastic work everyone at @maidsafe. Very much looking forward to seeing the outworking of this new mechanism in terms of the Safe network’s development & operation, and other projects that utilise this technology.
Massively looking forward to seeing the pieces come together on this new, and I trust very secure, foundation! 
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