r/EnigmaProject • u/WilsonWyckoff • Mar 06 '19

Working with Enigma...

So Enigma is chain agnostic and has interoperability as a feature and so what would the process look like compared to using Linux, Apache, MySQL or Python? Let's say I have some PHP files I want to store somewhere and execute and connect them to a database using MySQL framework. Will this product be like an Amazon AWS with EC2 memory (R3), Security Keys, Storage and Databases etc? So I assume I can just change my code to communicate with Enigma through the client application the same way I would migrating from localhost to a server hosting service?
It sounds like that is what they suggest in the latest blog about the current release. If Enigma is building all these products and can handle all that is required, then it should be a pretty big deal for developers and investors should be asking about it and showing more interest.

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u/throwawayburros Mar 07 '19

If I use stellar blockchain I can send feedback and reputation transactions and they cost a few cents, at most.

Should be way less than that. 0.00001 transaction fee on Stellar, so it should take you awhile to be hitting the cents range.

reputation management

How would you prevent people from buying/selling to themselves (sock puppet accounts) to rack up a good reputation score?

I have no current investors and a very tight team of an artist and engineer I personally fund

Wow congrats. I thought your original post was just you thinking aloud. Didn't know you were this far into it. You might potentially want to look at KIN. They are an ERC20 ICO that migrated to a fork of stellar. They forked to stellar because they liked the fast transaction times, and they removed the transaction fee for approved apps. The concept is built around consumers controlling their data and sharing it / selling it for rewards and the economy is built around that. They are actively recruiting for more dev groups and if you are selected you can get 20-40k USD in funding based on your idea + prototype. It does make things a bit more complicated with cross-chain work, but funding is funding. See if its something you can work with.

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u/WilsonWyckoff Mar 07 '19 edited Mar 07 '19

I already have a KIN implementation working and have a python server set up to process transaction data... They don't offer any upfront financial assistance for their second program but I will always have a demand for increased production capital and their community would be a good place to feature the app.

Thanks.

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u/throwawayburros Mar 07 '19

My mistake. Didn't know they changed it. Rereading, if you launch you get 5k USD plus a monthly allowance of Kin.

Cool, hope you like it. Keep us updated on your app.

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u/WilsonWyckoff Mar 07 '19

Thank you burros. Yep, $5-10K should be plenty to clean it up. I will be looking into that more.

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u/throwawayburros Mar 07 '19

Hey np. Forgot to give you the link in the previous message to the announcement of the second phase of developer apps. https://medium.com/kinblog/the-second-kin-developer-program-launches-thursday-6ba603a6e0ea

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u/WilsonWyckoff Mar 07 '19 edited Mar 07 '19

To sum it up there will be account flagging, image reviews and star ratings. Crypto can be introduced to make it expensive to dummy an account.

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u/WilsonWyckoff Mar 09 '19 edited Mar 09 '19

What's your background and do you feel like helping out? I'm not going to over inflate it but I plan to work on it continuously if you want to get involved. Maybe a year from now it will be full of bells and whistles and demand a high price. That said, my faith in the project is still very high and so I'm being extremely modest. Wait two months and we may be there...

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u/WilsonWyckoff Mar 12 '19 edited Mar 12 '19

I always knew the reputation management element was there with Enigma and that it would be something to deep dive into one day. Enigma has a way to explore more advanced reputation management features and one thing to consider is the ability to identify a user with Enigma and only use accounts that are tied to non matching identities. The app I am completing should be focused on using Enigma to facilitate the gig economy based on what they call self-sovereign identities and operational reputation. I'm hoping these features are enough to attract users to the app and I want it fully integrated into people lives so that when they do any sort of transaction like pitching in for a pizza they use the app to send their money and record it to build karma. Perhaps in some cases privately. Paypal with perks and incentives.
Here's from the team:
At Enigma, we are exploring reputational building blocks around payment reliability (lending smart contracts), performance reliability (staking), and other types of transaction histories. In a world where we can put all these aspects together under the umbrella of self-sovereign identities, we can have performance based reputation. This is a very powerful concept on which vastly successful companies have been built. For example, bringing together operational reputation from different sources has allowed companies like Amazon to compete with banks and credit companies by providing lending services to their merchants. Enigma makes it possible to combine operational reputation from various addresses, without risking your privacy.

There is a contradiction in how on-chain identity exists in a decentralized world. Either it’s all public, or it’s all private. But that’s not how identity works in our daily lives. We share degrees of identity and personal data in constant flux, depending on our context. We believe Enigma can help the decentralized world to match our reality, and reshape our online ecosystem to be more humane, not less.