I'll bite. I think some of the crowd on HN might be interested in selling bandwidth. It seems like that's not the focus for orchid at the moment (based on the lack of info on the website and the lack of github build instructions.) Is there a support channel for someone interested in trying out staking, running a node, selling bandwidth, etc.? Is there a roadmap for supporting people interested in that side of things?
saurik|4 years ago
If you aren't a developer: just download a pre-compiled build; the 0.9.33 build that came out a couple days ago works great. I also have GitHub Actions set up to do a complete build of all of our components every time we do a push, and so you're also able to go back 90 days or whatever they hold on to and download a server asset. This also means I know 100% that it compiles OK ;P.
As for actually succeeding in selling bandwidth, that is fully possible right now (and has been since the network launched)... but, very awkwardly, not to the (vast) majority of people who are currently running our client in its default configuration. You will need to get users to 1) purchase OXT and manually set up their account and 2) get them to change the default "curator".
This is due to a combination of factors, but the deepest one--as in the one that is serving to be most difficult to fix, both internal and external to the project, as well as the one that personally frustrates me the most (if you know who I am ;P)--is that our users mostly buy in using "in-app purchases", which has led to us implementing various restrictions on spending them.
The result, though, is that if you go through all of the trouble to get set up right now, you won't actually get to experience anyone paying for your bandwidth in practice, even though I solemnly swear that the system is legitimately decentralized in that nothing is actively preventing that from happening: the system launched in December 2019 and has been "fully functional" ever since.
I, thereby, am quite reticent to publish an easy-to-follow guide where step 5 is "now be disappointed in the result", as I don't even think that is a valuable use of time for the people who are trying to contribute to the system. The best things you can do to help are: 1) lobby against Apple/Google; 2) improve the state of play for wallets; and 3) get people to download/use the client.
(As for something like a "roadmap", I try to prevent anyone from telling people about the order/timing of work we are doing because the system should be considered functional "as is"; I think most projects that have "roadmaps" in this space use them to cause people in the ecosystem to speculatively purchase large quantities of what should really be a "utility token". I hope you understand.)
(That said, there is some public discussion of this specific task--to make it easier for people who have a copy of the server to run a node--related to an issue that I feel able to point you at: https://github.com/OrchidTechnologies/orchid/issues/103. I will, admittedly awkwardly, not comment on whether or not I intend to make a commit in the near future to address this deficiency.)
dlss|4 years ago
Browsing through the code, it looks like Orchid's xdai contract is https://blockscout.com/xdai/mainnet/address/0x6dB8381b2B41b7... -- which shows in-app purchases of bandwidth being a bit less than $75,000 total for the last two years. Is that right, or am I missing something?
> I think most projects that have "roadmaps" in this space are using it to cause people in the ecosystem to speculatively purchase large quantities of what should really be a "utility token".
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/orchid-protocol shows Orchid's trading volume as $22 million for just today...
caslon|4 years ago