The Privatix team releases updates once every 2 weeks on Tuesdays. The next update will be published on 3 April 2018. The numbered calendar weeks can be found here. Important announcements and news are published immediately.

Technology not legislation is the only way to implement Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

(Published in every Privatix publication / “Carthago delenda est”)

Development progress

During the last two weeks, the development team have made 177 commits in 5 active repositories — you can track all the changes in our Github. Based on current progress, we believe that our version of the Client-Agent software is likely to be released as planned in the road map, if not even earlier.

We have completed core development of the Service Offering Messaging Channel (SOMC) part of the server and switched to client-side SOMC connector implementation. Ethereum library development is done and allows us to use smart contract logic in inner application level without exposing any ethereum-specific complexity. The payment connector is ready and can receive micropayments. Currently we are working on database optimization, billing, service life-cycle orchestration and the user interface, both on front-end and back-end sides. Our public repository infrastructure is continuously being improved by adding all attributes needed for open source community contributions and for scalable development: license checker, static code analysis, code of conduct, contributing guidance, etc.

We want to emphasize that the alpha version of the client-agent software will include all the major features and will fully rely on the ethereum blockchain for accounting, payments, etc. It won’t be just some VPN connector simply designed to satisfy community members who don’t really understand the tech behind it.

You’re welcome to check out our documentation and get a good idea of all the features planned for the first version.

At this stage, if you’re really interested in contributing to the project and devoting your time to it right now, please contact us first so we can help you get tuned in to the development process. We have a lot of technical documentation that hasn’t yet been published or made available to the general public.

Competitors

From now on, this bi-weekly update will feature a section in which we track our closest competitors. If you think there are any other projects that could or should be included, please send us your suggestions.

We understand that some may think our comparison is unduly prejudiced in order to show our project in a better light; however, we wanted to adhere to the K.I.S.S. principle and explain some of the methodology behind the comparison.

We consider the software release as publicly available for anyone to download, including the source code. If there’s no openly available source code, and just a limited group of users mysteriously gets access to it, that’s not a release, no matter how many videos and sneak-peak screenshots has been published before or after.

Technical documentation and architecture design are crucial to any project in development. Projects that never publish heavy technical documentation should ring alarm bells for everyone. Source code alone is not enough to give a true understanding of the progress the development team is making.

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* Coinmarketcap : Mysterium (MYST), Substratum (SUB), Privatix (PRIX)