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Maidsafe Provokes Controversy with Code Patent

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Maidsafe CEO David Irvine has provoked controversy by successfully applying for a code patent to protect that innovations of his Safe Network project.

The Safe Network aims to build a new, decentralized internet infrastructure with no need for servers. Instead a peer to peer network will be employed, powered by its own cryptocurrency called Safecoins. Some users will then provide resources such as disk space to the network in return for Safe Coins, while others will purchase additional resources using the coins. To protect privacy and ensure maximum security all data is shredded and encrypted before being stored on the computers of multiple peers.

On Jauary 1st 2015 The US Patent & Trademark Office registered a patent application from Irvine covering the main innovations of Maidsafes Safe Network. In particular, it lays claim to intellectual ownership of the following:

A computer-implemented method of storing data of a first node on a peer-to-peer communications network in a protected form, the method comprising steps of: obfuscating the first node data by splitting the first node data into a plurality of data chunks; generating the protected form of the first node data by swapping data between the data chunks and encrypting the data chunks by applying an encryption algorithm; storing the protected form of the first node data on the peer-to-peer communications network; creating a public and private key pair from the first node data; and assigning a hash value for the public key as an identifier for the user of the node.

The application proved controversial in some quarters, provoking amongst other responses, a vitriolic article on Coin Telegraph accusing Irvine of going against the open source ideals of cryptocurrency to sign a pact with the governmental devil whose spying Maidsafe claims to be trying to protect us from.

Despite being still in a pre-launch test-net phase, however, the source code for the Safe Network is already published on GitHub and licensed under GPL3 – which restricts only commercial exploitation of the code.

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  1. Jesus says:
    11 years ago

    The “Coin Telegraph” article was indeed vitriolic and undeservedly so. Probably the worst piece of Journalism I’ve seen in a while – no research, no investigating….just trolling really, rather than writing. The best bits of the article are the comments below it, which explain D.Irvine’s defensive use of them – via a holding charity etc. A number of people felt moved to defend Maidsafe’s decision and complain about the heavily spun article.

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    • phil says:
      11 years ago

      Cointelegraph needs more mature writers. It was a very childish article and should be removed by the main editor. It’s embarrassingly misinformed
      and it’s as if cointelegraph got lazy and forgot to research the topic they were writing about.

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  2. Rich Beer says:
    11 years ago

    Dean do you have a link to a qr code or public key for tipping? When I clicked on the TipMe button a pop up appeared that only gave the option of using ChangeTip. I went ahead and created a Change Tip account.

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  1. Jesus says:
    11 years ago

    The “Coin Telegraph” article was indeed vitriolic and undeservedly so. Probably the worst piece of Journalism I’ve seen in a while – no research, no investigating….just trolling really, rather than writing. The best bits of the article are the comments below it, which explain D.Irvine’s defensive use of them – via a holding charity etc. A number of people felt moved to defend Maidsafe’s decision and complain about the heavily spun article.

    Reply
    • phil says:
      11 years ago

      Cointelegraph needs more mature writers. It was a very childish article and should be removed by the main editor. It’s embarrassingly misinformed
      and it’s as if cointelegraph got lazy and forgot to research the topic they were writing about.

      Reply
  2. Rich Beer says:
    11 years ago

    Dean do you have a link to a qr code or public key for tipping? When I clicked on the TipMe button a pop up appeared that only gave the option of using ChangeTip. I went ahead and created a Change Tip account.

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