My fellow retards,
A recent pheverdream explored the argument that the term ‘network’ should not haphazardly be appended to the end of Phonon. This one will explore what a phonon network could look like…
Long has there been discussion around how a series of nodes in communication with each other could use the phonon protocol as a transport layer to exchange value (cryptographic private keys). Imagine this for now as a series of lattice devices which are all able to discover each other and communicate. As developers wise up to this whole phonon thing, it is easy to anticipate this will all be possible with some phonon node software and a simple card reader plugged into your machine.
The benefit of using a lattice is in the way it segregates signing duties to an extremely secure environment that is physically and functionally separate from the software that runs the device itself.
If you run a phonon node applet you accept tradeoffs similar to those who use an L2 rather than the base chain. You accept greater performance in exchange for increased risk. This node could be a simple standalone app on your laptop, where the user could click “go” and have a list of options as to which service the user will provide to the “network”.
These options have only been dreamt up at this point, but low-hanging fruit include an opt in for a decentralized VPN, a TOR type system, a Helium mesh network system, etc. Essentially the user would run an app to provide the service of routing data through the network, and would be paid for this service through the phonon transport layer (exchanging of private keys).
The above may sound future state, and it is. It imagines many services such that phonon nodes can pick and choose which role to play. Early on it is probably just one. The simplest is probably a decentralized VPN service, or some kind of data routing.
Voices also imagine overlaying the phonon protocol to *existing* apps, such that the phonon node app does not need to become extremely complex. Rather than the DAO build a fork of TOR and add payments to this new system that must be maintained, the phonon node could simply be an add on to an already installed version of TOR. If you run the phonon node while you are running TOR, you will get paid a steady stream of PHONON from the DAO. This is a very clever way to incentivize more nodes to route traffic on TOR, and it doesn’t require users to download an entire new app that would need to be maintained and constantly kept up to date with official TOR. This could be an opt in way to pay people who are currently providing a great service by altruistically running a TOR node, without having them do anything beyond plugging in a phonon card to their machine to collect payments.
Us retards should brainstorm other open source projects who would benefit from build in streaming PHONON payments. It would absolutely be worth it for the Phonon DAO to become known as a supporter of free speech and open source development communities. The best part is, no permission is needed. Everything would be an opt in overlay through a standalone app. The app would merely check your machine that you are running the service for which you’ve signed up, and will stream you payments as you provide that service. A further benefit of this is that there is not much risk to Sybil here, since all participants need to purchase a phonon card and reader to opt in. At $15 plus waiting time, it wouldn’t make sense for them to do this and try to trick the Phonon node applet into thinking they are providing the service.
The DAO would do well to discuss other services whose users would want to be paid PHONON for running. Perhaps this would be a good topic for the upcoming Goat UNited International Team (G-UNIT) working group.
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Targets for the marketcap of PHONON DAO remain:
$1b by Q2 2022, $12b by EOY.
On the high end, $300b marketcap in 3 years.