AMA Recap: July 20 2018

Question 1

Saw this image "The connected living room" and loved the simple illustration of the concept. My second thought was: How about bandwidth? My Raspberry Pi latency to Google is 20ms whereas 3ms from my VPS. What about home network higher latencies? Isn't this an issue?

Arthur Mingard: Latency is considered when rating a host. However, measures have been taken to reduce it in other parts of the network. One example is the routing policy mechanics, which route requests to the nearest gateway, on the same ISP where possible, lowering the number of hops and distance travelled. Your latency to Google may be slightly higher but imagine if Google’s closest point of presence was at the end of your street. With Gateway, that’s possible, and over time, quite likely.

Question 2

Curious about the node ROI projections. They seem decent. Down the road though, as we look at the addressable market and the projections from the white paper, the revenue can be possibly tens of dollars per DADI token per year as far as I can tell. So the host projections kind of hockey stick at some point. I guess the non-staking devices eat into this on exchange for a more robust network. Anyway, how do you guys see this network working at huge scale?

James Lambie: The architecture as it currently stands is capable of scaling to hundreds of millions of devices. It is envisaged as a single market-driven network, for mixed use software presented through a series of SaaS layers. As it's a marketplace, supply and demand must be balanced. In the first instance this is being controlled directly (through a phased approach to onboarding and the rollout of the backbone), but it will open up in time. So as the technology scales, the model scales as well: over time we expect the POS requirements to be reduced. Plus, the current network/model configuration intentionally builds in a lot of spare capacity: as we gather data and better understand production performance, this overhead will be reduced, which will in turn increase the earning potential of nodes.

Question 3

How do you envisage people with the household products affecting the network? Do they need to stake? If not, how does this and non-staking nodes affect the value of the network?

James Lambie: There will always be a stake requirement for earning nodes, but how this is expressed may vary. Imagine purchasing a device that has the stake built into the initial cost. Non-staking nodes already exist in the network, in the form of some backbone components - but these are non-earning. In the future other non-staking devices may be brought on board. Imagine running a DADI app that offsets the carbon footprint of your laptop, for example. Non-earning, but still valuable to the end user, and still contributing to the network.