Not right now but very soon Vaults will be available once again, allowing you to participate in the network by downloading the software. Not sure whether they’ll be ready for mobile at this stage, but for laptopPc/Raspberry Pi etc certainly.
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Just bookmark the IP address reset page and you are good to go. I have my linux laptop, my android phone and my android tablet all set up and useable.
In fact, I just uploaded an old test site (safe://lazydog) for fun, so I could try it out on all my devices. It looks great and loads quickly too!
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The community network is also still live, if people want to have a go at running a vault from the alpha 2 code base.
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Where can I find the details about the relationship between safecoin and usable volume of network bandwidth and storage ? please.
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I don’t think anywhere yet because they are going to really have to tune those dials to find the right balance where safecoin flows though the ecosystem and we maximize motivation to farm and also motivation to use farmers services. Or did you just mean in a general sense? basically farmers will start with a high ask and gradually lower it until they find an amount of safecoin someone will pay to store some data. So in a very broad view its going to be controlled by supply/demand but I don’t think they have released any details on the finer variables yet.
@Nigel sure I could try my hand at some charting in the future. Gonna have to do some longer term analysis for that though. I think a lot of my comments here are more of a play by play of whats happening right at the very moment 
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Back in the top 80. Getting up there again slowly but surely
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Try Openmarketcap instead, it’s a bit more honest and realistic view of things
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How do they calculate market cap there? Looks like MAID is 67th there atm:
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From what I remember I don’t think anyone could say the model used by them isn’t flawed.
OMC attempts to remove as best as possible wash trading from calculations utilising a smaller number of ‘trusted’ or vetted exchanges based on figures from an old bitwise investigation into fake volume/wash trading across the industry.
There’s plenty of flaws most definitely with it, but it’s at least an effort to remove some of the better known ‘dirty dogs’ when it comes to faking volume.
‘Trusted’ and centralised exchanges…ha I know huge eyeroll, so take it with a grain of salt, but anything that at least tries to sort the gunk with some sort of factual base behind it certainly is worth a look ahead of CMC imo.
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I’m a complete amateur when it comes to this stuff, but I still find it interesting that the S&P 500 Index is going up Shit Creek with -3.6% today, while Bitcoin (and MAID) are still up +7.5%.
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For the average time poor an resource poor person MAID, or any other crypto, is easier to buy than physical gold. Log in to an exchange, buy with a credit card and take ownership of your keys instantly.
Even before launch, MAID will continue to preserve your purchasing power. Okay, it’s got it’s ups and downs, but, MAID will at least hang on to the coat tails of BTC.
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USA (Donald Trump) announces extra tariffs on Chinese products.
China (Xi Jinping) reacts with devaluing the Yuan.
More Chinese than normal buy Bitcoin as hedge…
Or something like that.
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I wouldn’t worry too much about the US stock market. They took a downturn because of the tariff news, combined with the news the Fed is not lowering interest rates as much as investors hoped. It will bounce back within the next week or so. The US job report for July was excellent, and the economy is still booming.
Seeing the gains in the US market and BTC since 2016, it makes me second guess putting a decent chunk of my extra investment income into MAID. I am crossing my fingers it will pay off in the long run.
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At the same time, not all is well.
The need for transport is a very strong business cycle indicator. Orders for heavy trucks in American class 8 fell by as much as 81% in July compared to July 2018 reports FTR Transportation Intelligence. These are the lowest figures for a single month since February 2010, when the economy began to recover from the financial crisis.
In 2018, the number of orders was 52,000 trucks in July and August, but this year it has so far only been orders for 9,800 heavy trucks in the USA.
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I’m neither “worried” about the US stock market, nor am I in this case implying US government policies have anything to do with the situation. That was not my point. I’ve been waiting for the stock market to crash mainly out of curiosity about how that might affect crypto. Some see Bitcoin as the new gold. I don’t. I think crypto is far from ready to be anything like that. It’s just interesting to watch, just like the Pound crashing.
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Don’t worry? Don’t worry? The bond market is telling you a different story. 10y treasuries are trading 30bp through 3month bills (most since before the 2008 crisis I think). Powell had to be a little less dovish than the official text to avoid the question “if the economy is so weak, why only 25bp?” . The 25bp doesn’t nothing to combat implied tightening from stronger dollar (even if u add loosening from end of QT). The US job report was a disaster - downward revisions; only government jobs added (clue: they don’t count, as they just add debt and more obstacles for business). Where is the economy booming please?
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I’m not sure where you are getting your information, but the US added 164K jobs in July, a solid number basically right at expectations (which were high). Despite some downward revisions, average job gains are 140K/monthly over the last three months. Unemployment remains at near record lows (even U-6 is at 7%, which is very low), and the US labor force is the largest it’s been in history. Hourly wage earnings are up 3.2% year over year, which far outpaces inflation, meaning consumer spending is likely to increase, especially in conjunction with the lowering of the fed rates.
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is unemployment really a great economic indicator? I mean if we had robots doing all the jobs for us the economy would be doing great IMO. Or if a company invents a cheap/clean/scalable energy source. That company would make insane profits (and arguably improve the economy.) But the general public would not be getting more money to spend so much as something they are already spending on for cheaper. Does the fact the coffee shop can hire an extra kid to bumble around and still get my order wrong mean the economy improved? Not saying its an issue not worth caring about, but I think its more a quality of life indicator.
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