(but let us hope safe network won’t take a lifetime)
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That lifetime has already been lived by the team. The thing about simplicity is it often only appears to be so, when in fact, looking under the hood, the thing that makes it look simple is very complex.
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Exactly. True genius lies in making the functionally complex appear simple. Nature, for example, is extraordinarily complex, yet appears to seem so simple in that it just works. It’s often only when it breaks (e.g. disease) that we are forced to reckon with the great complexity that underpins it all.
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Thank you Maidsafe devs for all your hard work
@JimCollinson 
really makes the simplicity of onboarding shine, even a child would be able to do this.
It’s really amazing, time and time again how Maidsafe seems to keep the complex so simple @dirvine explaination had me 
Keep going super ants, this testnet is insanely close 
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I was wondering if --test-coins would be still in use in the next testnet ?
Would we have to use the reward_secret_key generated by the node, and how ?
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I expect it will, but if rewards are there as planned it may not be essential so hopefully not!
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I was also thinking about this, I think we should try to remove that feature, so even if it may be uncomfortable for those/someone not running a node but trying to use CLI to upload files, perhaps it’s still good to force us all to test the flows for transferring coins to others and so on, making sure (validate) we have all the tools in place for bootstrapping users.
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It’ll be nice to get rid of it. But we’ll need to replace that functionality with something auto-faucet like I think to be able to test well. (Tiny server to trigger cli I mean).
That’d work for a test net and getting pure clients cash to play with. But also for CI.
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Perhaps having a community funded faucet, if we have a faucet app which gives coins away from a specific wallet, then community members running nodes can transfer (“donate”) coins to that wallet so it always has some funds for those not running nodes that would be using the faucet and testnet.
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Love that idea @bochaco also encourages participation.
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Complexity is not the same thing as complicatedness. Complex things can have simple rules and elegant or beautiful design. Is a butterfly or ant colony something that is simple, complex, or complicated?
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