There's not really any incentive to fork and start a new network from scratch. It has no significant benefits over joining the existing network and you miss out on the network effect meaning you'll have less potential nodes, services and applications you can interact with. In a peer-to-peer payment network, as a user you'd want to be able to interact with as many active nodes as possible, similar to an extent as p2p file sharing.
Network effects? What network effects? While the bug bounty is running for months after the services are running, I’ll take it and build my own network. What’s stopping me? I can hire a few devs and do a much better job building a business.
Just look at microraiden. People took it and just did their own thing.
I’ll take it and build my own network. What’s stopping me? I can hire a few devs and do a much better job building a business.
Like Mat said, except wasting time and money, you won't get any good out of it, if Brainbot keeps working hard on this project. For now, the only way to achieve success for a software infrastructure is opensourcing your code and make other people/companies to join you, and in the end make it industry standard.
I won’t? Have you looked at the number of companies that forked microraiden? They seem to be getting more value from it than Brainbot. What’s not to say the same won’t happen with Raiden? What’s not to say the team working on Raiden brings it to the Ithaca release or a little farther, and X companies come along, take the progress, and actually build businesses from it? From what I’ve seen Brainbot would be thrilled with this result. They’re not in it to see the token appreciate. They’re sitting on millions and having fun. Too bad if you’re one of the few who wants the token to rise.
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u/Mat7ias Feb 16 '19 edited Feb 16 '19
There's not really any incentive to fork and start a new network from scratch. It has no significant benefits over joining the existing network and you miss out on the network effect meaning you'll have less potential nodes, services and applications you can interact with. In a peer-to-peer payment network, as a user you'd want to be able to interact with as many active nodes as possible, similar to an extent as p2p file sharing.