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Although claims have been made that team has done work on similar project in the past, after following the link of that company called DenDen at following url https://www.forbiddencity.io, browser gives the warning about insecure connection, then if one continues, redirection is made to https://dataeum.io/



If address is enterd without "s" http://www.forbiddencity.io, standard message "Welcome to nginx on Fedora!" is displayed.

There is no traces of previous company. Subsequently entering forbiddencity.io, leads to App Store where one can download a game which is a data collection tool. I understand that this is referred as MVP.

MVP should also include mechanism to share the data and reward users with tokens for their work.



The game in itself can't cover problem of data collection, due to limited applicability and usage. Only certain sector of public (young people) could be involved.



Some of the team member's accounts on linkedin are relatively new with little activity and majority of them have very few endorsements and/or skills upvoted.



According to white paper.

"Dataeum is going to change the existing paradigm so that data generation is no longer exploited by large corporations at the expense of the individuals who create it."



Nobody will stop existing monopolies and corporation from doing it. Nothing stops Google or Facebook to reward their users with tokens to help improve accuracy of their data and still keep it centralized. Virtually already every user is being tracked through smart phones in respect to their daily activity and location.





"Over the past 2 years, our mobile app has been up and running. We have collected all the data on Point of Interests in cities such as London, Paris, and Barcelona. We have already licensed our database to several companies, and the model has proven its scalability and profitability."



It would be helpful to say which companies have licensed the data, and also where are the proofs of company activity to aquire thousands of users to conduct those data collection tests.

Today all work is being done online and if such project took place, it should be still available online. Otherwise these are just words. I feel not convinced.





Scalability is an issue if data is not accessible in one central point. Sorting and filtering will not be possible, thus it would force some data aggregators to collect data from different sources and centralized it.



The project lacks blockchain technical experts and devs.



"The blockchain and Smart Contracts technology will guarantee the remuneration granted to the DOE holders based on the revenue that the data generates"



I think that using bigChainDB is a good choice for storing user data. On the other hand from bigChainDB documentation.



"BigchainDB isn’t intended for running smart contracts. That said, it can do many of the things that smart contracts are used to do. For example, the owners of an asset can impose conditions that must be fulfilled by anyone wishing to transfer the asset to new owners"



Project aims to use smart contracts to reward users and to rate them and run other important statistics. Since bigChainDb doesn't offer smart contracts, project will be still faced with slow transactions on e.g. Ethereum, gas costs and scalability. To compute rewards for each user for each data point, it would take large amounts of gas and time every time someone would like to acquire license to use it.



I noticed some good marketing efforts and good presence on Medium, Telegram and bitcoinTalk, suggesting that there is some serious preparation done.



The white paper is also nicely done and well presented. Use cases are very clear and offer good product operation.



To sum it up. If not impossible than at least it will be very challenging to change the current status quo of data monopolies. All current big players can do exactly or some points what this project outlines and they have already access to millions of user who are providing data for free just so their name can show next to it.



I wish you good luck.





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