Storing Threat Reputation Data in a Secured & Decentralized Database

Summary of Bluzelle AMA on Sentinel Protocol’s Telegram

Two weeks ago, Bluzelle & Sentinel Protocol formed a partnership. Earlier today, our CEO Pavel Bains hosted an AMA on Sentinel’s Telegram chat to share more details on the partnership and more. Thank you Sentinel community for welcoming us!

Discussion Summary

Q: Hey Pavel, could you start off with a brief explanation, on how Sentinel Protocol and Bluzelle plan to work together. Many are aware of the partnership announcement but I am sure some are uncertain on the actual collaboration between the two projects.

A: As Sentinel builds out TRDB, they do not want to slow down their system and increase the cost by storing the raw data. By using Bluzelle we can take care of that component for them. Leaving Sentinel to focus on what they do best.

At the same time, as the Bluzelle ecosystem grows, we can push Sentinel as a product for them to use.

Q: How the partnership between Sentinel Protocol and Bluzelle will benefit each other?

A: For Sentinel, we can take some of the weight off their blockchain and let them focus on what they do best. For Bluzelle we can work with them on security practices that can benefit others using Bluzelle

Q: To further explain this topic, what are the advantages of storing raw data with bluzelle as opposed to say, any other DB services out there.

A: 1. Security. Centralized DBs allow for data breaches and data maniplulation.

2. Scalability. Decentralized DB allows for data storage to scale at affordable, low cost. Our goal is to provide an enterprise grade product everyone can afford.

3. Reliabilty — centralized DBs can go down and you don’t have access to your data. With Bluzelle, the system stays alive even as nodes go down

Q: Is there a drawback? Speed to reach/change the data?

A: Not by using a swarming model. If we had conensus at a system wide level, there would be.

Q: Could you expand more about the swarming model?

A: Right now most blockchains reach consensus at a universe state. Every planet, star, moon etc have to be in full agreement. With swarming, we are saying there are galaxies in the universe. We just need them to come to consensus.

By breaking them into groups we get faster results. Vitalik and Ethereum have spoken about introducing swarming this year too

Q: Does this imply a localized consensus at a sub-network level? or ‘swarm’ to be more precise?

A: No, it doesn’t have be localized. The swarm can still be global.

Q: Will there be any chance of attack, where a hacker changes the data/information being stored in Bluzelle’s database?

A: No. Every node is encrypted differently and only stores a piece of the data. Plus the hacker would need the nodes to all agree this change is correct. The nodes cannot do that since the data has been changed on one and not the others.

Q: There’s a ‘karma index’ from Bluzlle, which works quite similarly to Sentinel Points, in that it is an indication to reputation and how well behaved the producer is. Will Bluzelle and Sentinel Protocol go beyond storage service collaboration, and in the future integrate further with say, a cross reputation system that will accumulate from both networks?

A: Both our CTOs are looking into that. We want to develop things together and jointly put them out. That’s the exciting thing about working on the infrastructure level together — we don’t need to be in silos. We can build things together.

Q: So what makes you excited about Sentinel?

A: For me it was the team when I first met them in December.

Q: How far would you say the company is in the development of the pricing model?

A: That is still a number of months away. We just had released the Lovelace version over the weekend at a Hackathon we hosted on the weekend. The public release will come at the end of June.

We were focused on right now on giving a usable single, swarm product for applications to use.

Q: Do early adopters (developers) get free storage or other incentives for using Bluzelle’s beta?

A: We’ll be using a model for our supporters to earn free storage. I remember when Dropbox first started and they allowed early users to get free storage and keep adding to it.

Q: Any plan of listing in Korean Exchange for BLZ?

A: We’ve been getting nice support from the Korean community. Hashed (our early token supporters) has helped on that. So we’ve been looking into how to build on that.

Q: How big will blz be in a year from now?

A: We plan to have integrations into 5 blockchains atleast, and a strong community.

Q: Is Neo your investor?

A: Yes they are through the NEO Capital Fund.

Q: Pavel really i am fan of your bluzelle tshirt with names. Can you say us what is the names actually fully. :=)

We have another shirt now. The first one are male scientists, the second are females. (my kids picked the namesfor the second one). 😀

Check out the Hackathon’s playback videos on Bluzelle’s twitter you’ll see the new shirt :)

Q: I would like to write down Indian scientist names😉

A: Maybe that can be version 3. 😉

Q: Biggie or Tupac? Buterin or Larimer?

A: Tupac. hands down. Farm more charismatic and would have been a real leader. He was very smart. Also conflicted. On the second part, I don’t comment on peers. 😀