There is no need to mine in a hard way with powerful computer as Bitcoin nowadays, just an average laptop and a good network and you can get into the Proof-of-Person(what!?) blockchain, called as Idena, yeah what means "Proof of Person"? If you get curious, we need to talk about it!
Overview - Consensus in Blockchain:
We have some consensus concept: Proof of Work (Bitcoin) a consensus concept, that nodes(computers) inside its blockchain network needs to solve mathematical problems and enter in consensus if the problem solved by the first computer in the network is valid then put the block into the chain, common and first proof in the world, and Ethereum has the same, but is migrating to Proof-of-Stake, that in the concept there will be a node(baker) in the network that you can put an amount of its blockchain asset on this node, good for investors, then if this node in the blockchain getting more investors so more crypto this node will have then it'll have more power in the proof of stake validation, this is a simple explanation to understand how blockchain put blocks in its node. PoS has been really common, there is Tezos, Tron, and other blockchains that has the same concept, but Idena is different.
What is Idena?
Idena Blockchain has a different approach that they called as Proof-of-Person, and this means that each node belongs to a certain person, individual, a unique cryptoidentity.
An anonymous group of computer scientist and engineers that believes that blockchain can be changed and hopes to achieve the greater decentralization and more scalability blockchain ever. They believe in the democracy of one person one vote, that means the governance can be distributed to achieve its stability into their blockchain, and it's can be possible in the way they are expecting.
Idena's network don't need to share your personal data, and don't have any third lib data center, so they pray for privacy and want to achieve the uniqueness individual by each node, you just need a laptop, network, be invited by someone that's already in the blockchain then solve some AI Turing tests puzzles, to be part of this blockchain, you'll need an invitation, that will certify that you are human invited by someone.
Proof-of-Person
Certainly, this is a different concept, as I said, each node in Idena Blockchain is an individual unique person.
Each node in blockchain is a unique person. This is possible because of its checkpoint rituals and synchronous validation sessions to prove that person and each node needs to solve a flip puzzle, a kind of story made by a human, and given by their algorithm Idena. Each individual in their blockchain creates this puzzle to the blockchain for the next Epoch, solving this puzzles you will make the validation and being a new participant into the Epoch.
The Epoch validation flow is the heart of the Proof-of-Person, you'll solve some puzzles in a limited timeframe and just can do once, this is the synchronous validation session, the validated participants and invited candidates will need to solve some flips, then this will get the validated participants that will be in the blockchain, then the new validated participants can create more new flips and finish the cycle, normally an Epoch takes about 2 weeks(and can be bigger with more nodes) so each validation season, makes new validated nodes and this will transform in a humanity healthier blockchain validated that all the participants are humans and not bots.
The consensus flow in Idena website.
To get your invitation to participate in this blockchain system, you can go to their Telegram group, or Discord chat.
Flip Puzzles
In the last topic I simply did a summary about their concept, proof of person, the core to validate the new participants is the Flip Puzzles, they are just a kind of AI Turing test, that can be created by each new validated participant into the Epoch season. If you download their Idena App here, and wait a bit to synchronize with the blockchain, you'll can get this part:
Just validated participants into the blockchain can create new flips, after being validated into the Epoch season, then you can follow the Flip's creation flow:
Think your story about the two keys above.
Select the flip images or draw one(funny) about the keywords given.
Shuffle the images that you put before!
Then make it sure that will be a meaningful flip to the future validators!
After this steps you produce a new meaningful flip AI test that will test around the Idena Network in a future Epoch! This is the core of the proof of person, using it more new validated nodes can participate in its blockchain!
Flip Challenge
Idena has a flip challenge, because of the AI evolution in the last years, Idena makes them as important part into their world. Their challenge gets AI researchers to develop an open source AI bot to solving flips, more the accuracy of the bot to solve their captcha, more will be paid in the cascade prize, in the total of $55,000 to solve at least with 71% accuracy, if you are an AI developer you can read more about it here.
Idena Consensus Blockchain
After the new validated humans in the blockchain, every validated node has the same equal voting power in the network, and randomly can produce new blocks, then a random committee selected by the system that can choose if the block will be included into blockchain or not, like in proof of work after each miner solved a complexity block they will need all the network to get in the consensus about your solution, but in Idena is different, a random group will choose if it'll be included or not. Simple, isn't it?
Wallets, Exchanges, WebApps and Technologies
Idena has two main ways to get your own wallet:
- Idena Pocket - Web version of the $IDNA wallet.
- Idena Node - Node official version, you get your own wallet there but is a node program that you can participate into the Idena Network.
Idena currency can be exchanged mainly into the
Technologies
- Idena Today: all the summaries about the Idena blockchain, for example: list of humans validators and information about the blockchain itself for example the number of the validators nowadays and the rewards win.
- Idena codes: If you want to get some invitation to enter in their blockchain you can give a try to the Idena codes.
- Discuss Idena: Discussion's forum to talk about the blockchain's community.
They have for Developers their RPC API to interact and create new Apps:
Even their API is easy to understand there are few apps yet, I think it's because is a new blockchain, so this a new world of opportunities to get new future web developers to start and create new DApps on their API service, they are even has wrappers for its blockchain in the main back-end language nowadays as Python and NodeJS, as I talked here.
If you watch the new apps created by the Idena Community, can get it here: https://idena-apps.org/apps.html
Personal Vision
They are new in this crypto verse but I'm now watching nearly this project, this approach of being the human centric can be fantastic to the future, and has an interesting way to how we can be validated with flips into the Epoch is really different from others blockchain that promise decentralized world, but is not like that, in the Idena each node has the same voting power, than it means no powerful nodes in the blockchain, it's a random unique person there, no bots, no computers, just only one person for each node, now they catch my curiosity for a long-term vision, just needs a bit more exchanges to accept their currency, but can be growing step by step, human by human.
For more things about them Idena website: https://idena.io/
And they are now at the Publish0x! : https://www.publish0x.com/@Idena
My IDNA address: 0xb54e39d2a04f081c9eccedc29369548d60777a92
Thanks for reading, until next time guys! 🎆
