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E Pluribus Unum 2.0

“Out of many, one” was the motto for the formation of the thirteen colonies that originally formed the United States of America after winning the American Revolution. RChain’s new whitepaper aims to embody this thematically, with the title E Pluribus 2.0, for the global internet revolution. By leveraging the innovations in distributed computation, the one “chain” is really formed out of the many namespaces that will act autonomously, with high performance, and for the good of all.

Speaking of "for the good of all"...

Earlier this month we witnessed two amazing moments in the blockchain space.

  1. 95% of the Bitcoin miners activated the Segwit fork
  2. Ethereum whitehats saved hundreds of millions of dollars during an exploit of the parity client wallet.

The passion and resilience of the communities formed around these projects is a true inspiration. RChain, itself experienced something very similar back in November when the community rallied around the development of RChain, first and foremost as an open source platform.  

But, it’s important for all in the space to condense out of the clouds of our dream-like visions a solid methodology that works to better prevent the need for patches (as noble, and frankly cool to talk about, as they have been).

With that, we encourage you to check some of the timestamps below from our latest hangouts to get a better idea of how The RChain Cooperative and the Holdings Company are balancing the ethos of deploy early, stay open, and trust in the process, with a measured approach for mission critical applications that have trillions of dollars and personal information to protect.

Latest Community Debriefs

Every Wednesday the team joins in a hangout that streams to RChain’s youtube channel.

Below are timestamps with accompaning documents from the last “RChain Debrief” hangouts that are held every Wednesday at 11AM (PDT)

July 26th

 - Introduction: Musings on the Parity multi-sig breach

 - Talk on methodology of deploy early vs. mission critical mode

 - Co-op Updates:

     - Reconciliation of RChains’ financials w/screenshare 

     - Alex Bulkin has drafted series of articles on RChain

     - Whitepaper is moving forward and will be released soon 

     - For the purpose of Marketing RChain releases July 2018  

          - Platform Release

          - ICO for REV

          - Release of Developer Tool Set

          - DApp1

          - DApp2

 - Ed updates on the Holdings Company 

          - Expanded on marketing discussion with Lawrence Lerner 

          - More conversations with more DApp developers

          - Meetup coming this Monday 

          - Updates to the Architecture document 

          - Reviewed the work breakdown structure 

          - Question for Greg regarding REV and phlogiston

 - Technical Updates 

           - Response to “Casper is the magic” 

           - Mike presents “de-sugaring” methodology

           - Mike and Greg updates on laadl algorithm

 - Wrap up: Conclusions regarding Parity breach


July 19th

 - Introduction: Summaries of trip to China

          - Conversations with ascribe, resonate.io and bigchaindb

 - Technical Updates:

          - Working on a new whitepaper, E Pluribus Unum 2.0 

          - Mike and Greg have spent more time on K framework and discuss tricky decisions

 - Ed gives Organizational updates 

          - Architecture document is going under revision 

          - Another meetup in Seattle the 31st of July. 

          - Planning a hackathon for DApp ideas 

          - Lawrence Lerner is now helping with Biz Dev 

          - Nathan is working on a branding exercise 

          - Navneet and Ed are creating simple RHOC apps 

          - FAQ is being finalized, Kit Blake gives update

 - Greg updates financial summaries being finalized

 - Joseph Denman gives updates on the pricing schedule

 - Greg and Mike update on work on LADL algorithm

 - Conclusion: Greg reads some of the new whitepaper

In Other News

Long time community organizational group The Divvy DAO project hosted a hangout with special guest Andreas Freund, a very well researched strategist on the topic of web identity and blockchain technology. In this hangout The group discusses some of what they are doing right now(formation of the decentralized identity foundation) and then they jump right into the specifics of the landscape of web identity, where it’s at, what are the problems and where it is moving for.

The RChain Cooperative and Holdings Company are dedicated to getting web identity right, so you can expect to see much more content in the form of research groups, discussions, hackathons and partnerships in the future. Just like every other community hangout, these conversations are open. Join the community channels to get involved. Video link to the identity discussion.

The FAQ is now published to our github repo for all to see and request to. Thanks again to the activist Kit Blake for driving this effort.

Kent has pushed the token.rho contract through with special thanks to all who have contributed on github.com/rchain/Rholang which spawned a great discussion within the #rholang channel on the slack.

We now have the beginnings of a groundswell of awesome developers digging into the code, asking great questions and contributing their knowledge to the process.

Look forward to Rholang Tutorial videos, as well as article series with the help of Alex Bulkin to highlight the innovations behind RChain, Rholang, and its Casper proof-of-stake implementation.

See you next hangout!


More Information

Join the conversation on slack.rchain.coop.

Collaborators are most welcome on Github/rchain/members.

Keep engaged in the conversations around cooperative activisim every Wednesday at 10AM(PDT) before the community debrief. 

Cheers!

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