AMA Guest - Cap William (Co-founder Of Spock-Chain)

AMA Happened into 2 Segments

• Segment 1 :- The Thor Admin Asked questions to Cap William.
• Segment 2 :- Cap William Answered Community Questions.

Segment 1 Questions

Q1:- What is SpockChain & its Current Progress? What are the Problems SpockChain trying to solve?

Ans:- Spock has been launched its mainnet on 8/13 2019, it’s the first public blockchain support Solidity smart contract with PoC consensus. In the last month, we have achieved several goals: 1.launched the mainnet, 2.been listed on 6 exchanges, and also Spock has won the voting competition for free list on MXC. 3. Spockpool is online to help small miners to union their capacity and get share of the mining reward.
Spock is building a decentralized application network with PoC consensus, which is a more cost saving, environment friendly solution for blockchain system. Spock is going to release is first smart contract in the following months.

Q2:- What is the Use-case Of Spok Coin In Your Ecosystem? How can Holders & Investors Generate Rewards Using Spock Platform?

Ans:- In Spock Network, People can publish/run the apps on the network, all the dapps running on the network needs SPOK. and besides PoC consensus, Spock also involves the concept of PoS, which is that miners need to stake some coins to mine the coins, if not, the miner cannot get the 100% of the block reward, so in SpockPool, coin holders can lend the coins to the miners, when miners mined the reward, it can share with the coin holders.

Q3:- What is the Need & Importance Of SpockChain project in Blockchain Industry?

Ans:- First of all, I think PoC consensus will be a serious option besides PoW and PoS in future, and there must be a significant project stands for PoC consensus, currently Burst or BHD maybe the one, but these two projects has a common problem is that they do not have ecosystem, they only created a coin with PoC consensus, that’s too simple to today’s blockchain world. Spock will be the star project in this area not only just created a coin with PoC consensus, but also it supports smart contract, Ethereum dapps, games can be easily migrated to Spock network.

Q4:- What are the Milestones SpockChain has achieved from the starting of this project? What are the Long Term Targets?

Ans:- For the first question, I have answered in the previous one. Like launch the mainnet, got investment from Continue Capital and other token funds, IEO/IGO on the several exchanges, got free list on MXC by won the voting competition, released explorer, dashboard, desktop wallet, Android wallet, and SpockPool, all these things above happens in the last month!!!
For the short-term goal, Spock is trying to be the Ethereum with PoC consensus, so for the following 6 month to 1 year, Spock will expand the developer community to increase the dapps/tokens on its network. And also the final goal of Spock is to upgrade the consensus not only store the hash value, but also store documents, music, videos, etc. We’re still working on that part.

Segment 2 Questions

Q5:- What are your major goals to archive in the next 3-4 years? Where can we Spockchain ecosystem in this period? What are your plans to expand and gain more adoption?

Ans:- 1. Spreading the Proof of Capacity consensus, let more people know there is another way of mining to gain.
2. Build the developer economy on Spock Network, on Spock Network, not only smart contract, but a new type of tokens will be supported, which is not like the ERC-20, it’s tokens that generated as the block generated, but the developer can define the tokens generation rules, we call them mining-tokens.
3. Search the new way to upgrade the storage network, to finally achieve the goal that the a decentralized storage network can serve the internet users, that would be a totally new future of blockchain world.

Q6:- As a team member of Spockchain, what is your long-term vision about the industry which Spockchain is working at? Are you afraid someday there will be another project with more innovative technology can replace?

Ans:- I think the infrastructure of Blockchain world today has only two main directions: 1. cross chain Technoledge like Cosmos, Polka-dot. 2. Decentralized storage like IPFS. As long as we're heading to the right direction, we won't get a very bad result, even we have failed, but the way we passed through can be borrowed to other projects, there must be some projects success in this area. I feel confident about the project going and what we have done comparing to the other competitors, as currently so many projects claim that they want to be Ethereum in PoC, but none of the has launched the mainnet except SPOCK.

Q7:- Why Spock Network have Chosen Proof of Capacity Consensus Mechanism ? Any advantage over other consensus?

Ans:- Here is the description in the white paper about advantage of PoC:

Environmental protection: When a mining machine is initialized, the mining cost is
relatively small, requiring only a small amount of disk access and a small amount of
calculations per block.

• Economy: Many PCs have unused disk space. The marginal cost of using these spaces for
mining is small, with immediate rewards and can be used for mining. It is not necessary
to consider the cost of electricity as a bitcoin mining machine.

• Equality: Today Bitcoin has become the world of Asics mining machines and large mines,
and small-scale investors have struggled to participate in the bitcoin mining ecology,
while POC-based mining machines are hardly faced with bitcoin-like The mining machine
is constantly updating its iterations so that it is completely eliminated.

• “computing power” sharing: BCH is a BTC hard fork chain, so BTC's proprietary mining
machine can also dig BCH, but it can't dig BTC and BCH at the same time, and the POC
mechanism can make the hard disk for different chains. The spatial "computing power"
data structure is consistent, and these "computing power" can be used to dig assets on
these chains at the same time.

I think the value of PoC is under-estimated today, that’s why we want to promote the consensus.

Q8:- What are the competitors of Spock Network? How Spock Network is better than their competitors ?

Ans:- In storage domain, they can be:
Filecoin/Storj/Sia/Lambda/Filestorm/Yotta

In PoC consensus domain, there are:
Burst/BHD/LHD/Boom/Newbi/Disc

In PoC+Smart contract domain, there are:
Spock/Galaxy Network/BSN/EHD

Currently, in a completely decentralized blockchain network, there is no such consensus can distribute the coins as the miners contribute the hard disk and network, all these projects take some trade-off to make that happen except File coin, File coin uses Proof of Replication and Proof of Space-time consensus, that may be an option to solve this problem, but its mainnet has not launched, it would take time to achieve that.
The Burst, BHD, and other similar projects only uses PoC consensus to created a mining coin, but the usage and scenario are very limited, it’s not year 2013, you can simply create an alt coin and people will buy it.
The PoC consensus needs find some usage and scenario to make the network more solid and strong, the smart contract can be the way. As I listed, all the projects have not launched its mainnet except Spock.

Q9:- How Scalable Spock Network have , How many TPS achieved so far ? 

Ans:- Spock has its own advantage about improve TPS, because nodes running in the network has much hard disks and network traffic, basically we can increase the size of block header to increase the TPS, and also we're investigating other ways to improve the TPS.

Q10:- Why the name of Project " SPOCK" . What does it signify about your project?

Ans:- Spock is the leading character of Star Trek, we choose the name to inspire the team to keep exploring the possibility of the blockchain world, sand the slogan of Spock is “live long and prosper”, which is also the hope of the team for the project, nowadays, too many fake mining projects out there, Spock wants to show the honesty and integrity by continually showing the code and improving the project.

Q11:- Followed your whitepaper, Spock has a leaderless PoC protocol, does not use a committee or an authority. How this use for? What benefit does it have for Spock?

Ans:- In the consensus level, there is indeed no such organization can change or control it, just like PoW, when the network needs to upgrade its consensus, the community will join the discussion and the dev team will follow the result of it. That's the spirit of Satoshi and all the early blockchain projects.

Q12:- What is the form of Spock mining? What are the conditions for miner application?

Ans:- To mine spock, you can just use normal computer with several hard dist with plotted files, there are tutorials on the https://www.spockchain.org

Q13:- What next technology updating after building a decentralized storage data application network in 2021? Will Spock expand to other areas in long term development?

Ans:- I think after the infrastructure is completed that we will focus on the application ecosystem and adoption of the ecosystem, Spock dev team will continue working on the infrastructure and other scenarios/applications to promote the adoption, I think in a very long time, Spock project will only focus on decentralized storage domain.

Q14:- Does your team have a plan to add DAO module into your project since its its effiency on autonomy, decentralization and transparency?

Ans:- Spock will run DAO mode for autonomy, the Spock team is still working on the details of it.  

Q15:- What is the role of Smart Contract in Spock Chain? Does your team have a security system to check the operation of whole project?

Ans:- Smart Contract will be the key feature that distinguish Spock and other projects with PoC consensus, Spock leverages lots of work from Ethereum, so Spock is standing on the shoulders of giants, which potential lower-level security risks can be avoid, and we also have a security team to improve the smart contract, like before you submit your smart contract, there is a service to help to analysis the code to help you avoid some common mistakes.

Q16:- What is Spockchain vision and what's your biggest challenges?

Ans:- Spock is trying to be Ethereum with PoC consensus in a short-term, that goal seems to be very promising as everything goes well so far. Spock’s long-term goal is trying to provide a decentralized storage network for all the internet users, that would be challenging from both technical side and business side.

Q17:- Spockchain looks good but it confuses me that there are so many other Blockchain projects. What should I pay attention in Spockchain to give it the importance it deserves? What are you planning to achieve with your project goal?

Ans:- I think code and time talks, Spock is not a simply ERC-20 token, it’s a mining coin. If you checkout the top 50 projects on CMC, most of them are mining projects, because mining coins are very fair way to distribute the coins. And Spock provides another option for mining, you don’t have to search for low-cost electricity power, you can just set up the mining machines at home to mine the coins. It’s a potential mining way to mine cryptocurrency, if you have mined BTC/ETH, you can have a try about Spock/Burst/BHD, etc.

Q18:- Blockchain projects is not a child play. While creating spok projects, have u for once been discouraged to the extent of wishing to stop since its all about intelligent contract and users poc consensus.

Ans:- Honestly, we do. there is so many hard work to combine the smart contract and poc consensus, but we believe the technology and engineering, and we believe the judgement about the trend of blockchain technology, that's what encourage us to the place we have achieved.

Q19:- How the SpockChain project planning process is ensure? The market needs constant progress of project! How to avoid the spok Project idleness?

Ans:- We're continuously building and expanding the community and miner groups, both online and offline side. currently most miners are from Asia(China mostly),there are only several miners in Europe and US, we do want to spread spok ecosystem across other continents, if anyone in other countries is interested in promoting Spock, please directly contact me!

Q20:- Can anyone run a POC mining and does it require much processing power? Is the cost of POC mining high?

Ans:- Yes, anyone can run a PoC mining, it's electricity power insensitive. the electricity power of each petabytes of a day is only several dolloars, while the cost of a petabytes will be about 30000 dollars.

Q21:- Is POC exploitation cost high? What is it suitable for? What is the number of SPOCK user statistics today? Does SPOCK have a plan to attract users?

Ans:- you can check out the websites,
Official website: https://www.spockchain.org
Spock Explorer: http://www.spock.network
Miner Dashboard: https://dashboard.spock.network

Q22:- What is the function of SPOCK? Are there any benefits to SPOCK holders? How do I earn SPOCK?

Ans:- All the smart contract runs on Spock will cost SPOK, and miners want to mine SPOK will need some amount of SPOCK to stake. You can get the Spock on the exchanges that lists Spock, MXC, Coinex, VB, Bihodl, etc.

🌟 Important Links 🌟

Spockchain Telegram Community :- https://t.me/spockchain

Website: https://www.spockchain.org

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChainSpock

Special Thank to Cap William(Spockchain) for giving us opportunity to host an Amazing AMA Session. We would also like to thank our “Bitcoin Avengers Community” for joining AMA Session with us. 🌻🌻

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