Outline of the SAFE network created by Maidsafe from the local Amsterdam SAFE pod at Bas de Lange's bitcoin meetup.

1. Maidsafe
Massive Array of Internet Discs
Secure Access for Everyone
Scalable decentralized applications
No trust consensus without blockchains
By Dirk Hoving – SAFE Amsterdam
For presentation outline thanks to the Maidsafe team and the rest of the community.
Special usage of framework made by @ioptio

2. Why Maidsafe?
● Internet access is highly dependent on centralized servers
● Traffic peaks make websites slow and susceptible to DDOS.
● Cost of maintaining and securing servers causes monopolisation.
● Current internet is susceptible to censorship.
● Many centralised servers get hacked
● Blockchain tech is hard to scale, there must be a better way to
get consensus on ownership distribution

3. Maidsafe origins
● Founded by David Irvine in 2006. Inspired by ant colonies,
more than 9 years in the making.
● More is different: complexity at large scale from simplicity
at a small scale
● Ants have different roles, can switch roles, very adaptable
● Specialization, adaptability, communication and large
numbers
● Crowdfunded in 2014, bitcoin caused an additional wave
of interest

4. MAID
● Massive Array of Internet Discs
● Combining storage space, bandwith and CPU
power
● Hardware combined into one global cyberbrain
● Anyone with device+internet connection can
create vault
● MAID is what enables SAFE

5. From a presentation by @ioptio

6. Vault roles
● Storing data
● Data managers (managing data for other
vaults)
● Verifying and validating other vaults
● Groups of 32 randomly chosen of which 28
need to reach consensus.
● Nodes not behaving properly get outranked

7. Data distributing
● Data split into 1MB chunks
● Each chunk stored at least 4 times
● All chunks are stored in a location depending on the
hash of the chunk. Each chunk has a different
location.
● Self encryption. Need all chunks to decrypt the
whole.
● Parallel downloading of 1MB chunks makes data
retrieval incredible fast.

8. SAFE
● Secure Access for Everyone
● Variety of encryption layers
● Privacy, security, freedom
● Self Authentication → no password information
leaves your computer
● Store data, privately, shared or public
● Build and use applications that interact with this
data

9. Safecoin and farming
● Integrated cryptocurrency. No distributed ledger in the
form of a blockchain.
● Proof of resource will farm you safecoin
● Uploading data to the network costs safecoin. Safecoin
is recycled and given back to the network.
● 10% of farming rewards go to app developers
● Micropayments, instant verification
● Reward content creators, cut out the middleman

10. The way forward
● Installers for linux coming this or next week
● Development bundle 1 being released this or
next week (simple vaults, LAN only)
● Couple of sprints for Development bundle 2
(community run vaults and farming integration)
● Development bundle 3 (safecoin full
implementation, POSIX API and messaging
API)