Status : agog
Silvio Micali IMHO is a genius, almost fit to be mentioned in the same breath as @dirvine
Scotcoin looked at Algorand but were convinced by others that the technology was too immature at that time (about a year ago). Our pluggable solution means we are free to adopt it later when mature. Will we discover tomorrow that Maidsafe have aged it well?
To dayyyy, is gonna be the day that they’re gonna throw it back to you…
[altogether now]
By nowww…
I was just listening to some classic Oasis on my sunny commute! 
It’s going to be a good day! 
What time does the update come out GMT? Probably my Friday morning
Around 8pm uk time usually but sometimes before and sometimes after a couple hours either way
Im as about excited as the crowd on Oprah when she announces everybody gets a free car.
A free Internet…Yes please!!
I just… can’t control myself…
My brain is on speculation overload… what else could be announced?
A big linux distro is colaborating to create the first real distributed OS ?
A large company with a big open and healthy attitude to open source project is donating a workforce?
Acceptance on massive exchanges?
My heart will explode…
Can’t resist to speculate a bit… 
We’ve tested Vaults from home didn’t we? And with probably a bunch of complexity removed from Routing… Why a whole Alpha 3 network to test just Routing? Wouldn’t it be extra work to remove the Vault-layer and test only Routing? I’ll give it a 50% chance they’ll merge Alpha 3 & 4. If not than the one-step-at-the-time approach is probably better. But we’ll see .
Lots of work carried out by superstar @mav also. oh jeeez… so exciting.
Your excitement is contagious.
I don’t know about all those other points, but I bet the coming (main) announcement will at least get some heads turning and give MaidSafe (more) recognition for not only trying/wanting te be revolutionary, but actually being revolutionary (if they weren’t already). My only hope is that it’ll be big enough for the nay-sayers and the sceptics to say: “hot darn, I underestimated these guys”
If that is the case I don’t think I will be able to sleep tonight without some scottish destilled fluids.
What it looks like for me is the routing team has developed a consensus mechanism that allows verifying tx and timestamps in a asynchronous way, and it will be the datachain that connects all the different sections and ensures the integrity of the whole system. Just my guess
I want to be able to drag workmates in to the bar after work… hope the update is released before the end of the working day…
ps: I’m not sure if this twitter account is from MaidSafe or a MaidSafe employee.
That was just two days ago. Just be careful with that liver my man. 
Who else is refreshing in every minute? 
Here! I have to do some exercises for university, but I am so excited…can’t finish them…
Doing my bit…
I can actually sense a finger hovering over the “release update” button…