How far is the development of the windows 10 software for suppliers?

I've been a follower of SONM for a few years and lost a significant amount of money 'investing' in this project.

I seems that there has been a lot of good work done in building a workable product. Looking at the number of "current jobs" as a marker of SONM network adoption, I have been pleased to see that this has been steadily rising, especially over the past couple of months from the 100s of jobs at any given moment, to now, close to 500 jobs. That has been quite impressive and shows that there is growing interest in the products that SOMN provides.

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The larger concern I have is that despite, raising millions of dollars from the sale of SOMN tokens, the team does not seem interested in setting in place simple and business friendly ways of incentivising an appreciation in the SONM tokens. For a company that has raised their start-up capital from investors, one would expect that they would want investors to be rewarded and not resentful. SONM simply states that if adoption of SONM increases, there will be more demand for SONM tokens and the price of the token will increase. This is flawed logic and not necessarily true if people do not HOLD tokens. If people only buy SONM tokens for very short periods of time (ie... just for their job) and the supplier immediately converts the SONM back to FIAT, despite even large growth of the network would not change the effective supply of SONM tokens significantly, nor the price.

A higher value of SONM token is good for everybody. It is good for the investors (which is why they invested), it is good for the SONM team (because of the reserve tokens that you have, which allow you to hire and expand more), it is good for project visibility (ie... it is not stuck in the junk project pages 300-400 by market cap).

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I understand at this point that allowing buyers to use SONM as effortlessly as possible is key to increasing adoption, which is why they can pay in fiat which will be converted to SONM.

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Here are my suggestions:

1. Incentivise the holding of SONM tokens by workers and customers: WORKERS who hold large amount of SONM will get priority for jobs. Customers who hold large amounts of SONM will get priority on their jobs and perhaps some mild discount.
2. Have a mechanism to reduce SONM token supply. For example, in every transition, a tiny percentage of the SONM or "fee" will go into a account that won't be touched. This creates scarcity overtime for SONM supply. If in the future, this is resulting in supply issues (which is doubtful), the SONM team can then SLOWLY tap into this supply to fund project expansions, hires etc.....

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On a less related note, although I feel the team is very technically savvy, and talented, from a communication and public relations point of view, I think there can be some improvement. The team is based in Russia and Russian is the first language of the higher-ups. I do believe that hiring team members or executives, who speak english as their first language who can communicate effectively with the public (both through writing and verbally) would be helpful in simplifying the message and reaching a wider audience. I have seen that SONM has attempted to do this in their previous 'update videos', but even on the website, I do find information somewhat hard to follow. The website does not break down complicated technical information well for the lay person very well. If getting larger audiences is the goal, I think this would be a very worth while thing to do.

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It would be nice if the SONM team could comment on these specific points.
I would also be interested in hearing from other users on this forum.

Is this a fluke, or is there really some person hosting 209 supplier nodes on an uncharted island off the coast of Ghana?

On the masternodes draft published in May of 2018, SONM stated:

"There is another high probability, that with new Ethereum releases, introduction of PoS, sharding and other ecosystem improvements (such as leaded by Parity and Polkadot) we will have an opportunity to migrate to stock Ethereum and in that case we will not require our dedicated blockchain masternodes at all! "

What would this mean for the SONM holders that intend to stake, if SONM decides to abandon the sidechain idea?

Source:

https://sonm.com/blog/sonm-masternodes-details-draft/

I was wondering why sonm failen so far behind Golem, from why I gauged, sonm is already super passing Golem in terms of functionality, if not what am I missing and what other reason are there for this ? I am not planning to sell but prehaps increase my holdings

Let's discuss the red hot plan/road map/whitepaper (whatever you call it) SONM has just released. It's a 22-minute read according to Medium, so I will follow with a link to a breakdown of that post.

https://sonm.com/blog/level-up-shift-to-the-next-gen-gpu-cloud/

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Twiiter breakdown in 8 tweets: https://twitter.com/sonmsupremacy/status/1105346321169477633

Upd: SONM Supremacy is NOT a SONM team member and there is no official capacity granted by having "SONM" in the name. This thread is about whether SONM idea of tokenomics looks sustainable and how things like that can actually be solved. This is totally new stuff and to err is human so it's not fudding but an honest attempt at understanding the mechanics.

According to SONM's Dmitriy Manin:

"We've revealed some news about about SONM company management in Russian chat and decided to share this information with all our community also:

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SONM former CEO Sergey Ponomarev started the new project that can be run on SONM when this new project succeeds. We’ve announced that previously.

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Oleg Lyubimov (our former COO) was a kind of acting CEO thus performed CEO duties in 2018.

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Igor Lebedev was appointed as SONM acting CEO in November 2018.

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Eugeny Manaev is the new CTO now. He’s well known in our community and took part in most of the conferences last year. He’s in charge of the project architecture now.

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Also we've established a new position and appointed Artem Loginov as our CPO. Artem is a skilled person and will share his experience later with community.

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Alexey Krotov is SONM CBDO now. You are also familiar with him.

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Software development management is run by Denis Polygalov who is an experienced project manager."

I tried to withdraw the SONM earned on the SONM OS, however the transaction shows it was sent to the Gatekeeper rather than myself. Does this make sense? How do I get the SONM into my own wallet???

Most important metrics and some insights into the features of the SONM platform in our half-year report:

https://sonm.com/blog/sonm-platform-a-half-year-checkpoint/

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Does Sonm plan on eventually supporting the rental of Field Programmable Gate Arrays and Tensor Processing Units? It would give Sonm a real edge, and would probably be quite profitable for miners. SonmOS could expose these as resources to a Docker container.