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MOAC held an IPFS microchain FileStorm blockchain conference in Qingdao on the afternoon of July 14, 2018. The conference attracted leadership from the Chinese Academy of Management sciences as well as a number of project parties, technology developers, MOAC followers and media representatives.

MOAC Blockchain Tech (America) blockchain architect Fu Xiannong, delivered a speech titled ‘The IPFS System’s Guided Storage Has Entered the Age of Distributed Storage’ which received applause.

DaMeng Info was fortunate enough to be able to interview with ‘Brother Xiannong’, at the conclusion of the meeting. The following is the first part of the interview.

‘Brother Xian’ Introduces the MOAC Silicon Valley Team.

Fu Xiannong: Hello! MOAC is referred to as a Silicon Valley team, because we are headquartered in Silicon Valley’s Pola Alto. This place has been the birthplace of many outstanding American internet companies. The local ‘garages’ are all really famous, one of them is practically impossible to lease, because everyone believes that there’s something magical about it. Google and Microsoft all got their start there.

What was your first impression on joining the MOAC team?

Fu Xiannong: I thought that becoming a full-time employee would be more laid back than my previous schedule of working both a full-time and part-time job. I only discovered later that working at MOAC really required you to put your all in. I ended up being more worn out working one job at MOAC than I was working two other jobs.

But I was really happy! In fact, my earlier job was just that, a job. Now I was engaged in a career, I couldn’t feel tired while working towards my dream.

You also took the dreams of many MOAC followers on our shoulders.

Fu Xiannong: That’s right, I felt like a burden had been placed upon me. However, the expectations of so many people are both a pressure and a motivation. It’s like they gave us a pair of invisible wings, and we could fly.

I remember President.Sha mentioning that the MOAC team didn’t tell President.Sha when they first started developing IPFS microchains, is there a story there that you could tell everybody?

Fu Xiannong: I have to mention our CEO Mr. Chen Xiaohu. He’s a very low-key person. I extremely respect his technological ability, and I’d follow him anywhere.

MOAC Blockchain Alliance Founder Chen Xiaohu

His idea of making IPFS microchains is fantastic. Because I used to do data work for many years, I have a deep understanding of IPFS. The idea for IPFS was proposed a long time ago, yet it needed to be integrated with blockchain. I also had this idea at one point.

So you started working together on it?

Fu Xiannong: That’s right. One night, Xiaohu called me and my coworker Yifan together. He said, ‘I have an idea to achieve IPFS on MOAC.’ And we hit it off from there. Because I was still rather new to the MOAC team, I didn’t have a super deep understanding of microchains. Once Xiaohu started talking about all the stuff he’d conceived, I began to feel that it really was possible.

Then Yifan and I (we were both still part-time) started discussing this problem in our spare time. There actually were a lot of roadblocks. Xiaohu was so low-key that he didn’t make any statements about IPFS at the time. Once Jing Da found out, he told everyone about the several billion-dollar project. But at the time, it was just a couple of part-time guys working on it.

It definitely was a difficult process to make sure it was done right.

Fu Xiannong: That’s true. There were so many difficulties to truly making IPFS on MOAC. It’s a good thing that MOAC’s sharding and layered-architecture’s scalability is so huge, that’s why we were able to accomplish it in the first half of 2018.

We worked on it full-time after that. Yifan was still working part-time, but I want to say on Yifan’s behalf that Yifan put forth a massive contribution, we constantly talked about him joining full-time. Of course, he has his own reasons (he’s considering). But he’s already been working with MOAC part-time for years, and he’s an experienced programmer.

We feel that our making this today proves that we were able to accomplish it. However much money or effort other people think it takes to accomplish it, we’ve already put in. Our next step is to make it better, and more useful.

Everyone already saw today that just showing those 6 slides of our current IPFS to unexperienced engineers would probably make them faint. We want to make it a one-click process in the future. Maybe not one-click, but it’ll be extremely convenient to make your own IPFS microchain or use our FileStorm microchain.

MOAC’s microchains are awesome! Brother Xiannong, you just mentioned that you originally worked in data. Can you tell us about your origins?

Fu Xiannong: Sure! I moved to America in ’98 as a graduate student. I studied computing once I finished grad school, and later became a programmer. I worked at Bank of America at first and stayed for about 10 years. I started doing data and business intelligence work there as a programmer and kept walking down that road from there.

I left Bank of America in 2012 and started my own business outsourcing. I would receive projects in America and send them to a team that I formed in Shenzhen to finish. I was pretty upset because all the outsourcing in America was given to Indians. Can’t Chinese people make money outsourcing too? But there really was a reason for it, because Chinese people don’t speak English. Indian people’s English doesn’t sound very good, but at the end of the day, it’s still English. Us Chinese don’t understand it, but Americans can get by, so their thought was to revitalize the national software engineering industry by outsourcing to them.

You originally had entrepreneurial experience? Sounds pretty exciting!

Fu Xiannong: That’s right. However, maybe it has something to do with it being my first venture, but I made some bad decisions, bit off more than I could chew, and then the project didn’t expand as fast as we imagined. Eventually we discovered that there was no money in that industry.

I talked with a partner at the time and came to the conclusion that it probably wouldn’t work with the two of us working together, but if one of us did it on their own it might work. So we came to a decision, and I sold my shares to him and left the company. Of course, he’s doing really well now that I’m gone. Even though it wasn’t a glorious exit, I was able to make a little bit of money, and my partner doesn’t resent me for it. So I guess it turned out alright.

I kept doing data after that as a consultant. After a few years, I discovered that it’s pretty hard for a Chinese person to do consulting work overseas. Relationships aren’t the only important thing in doing business, culture is as well. I gradually began to feel that this was the wrong direction for me, so I began to look for new opportunities and researching blockchain.

ICO was pretty big in blockchain last year around this time.

Fu Xiannong: That’s true. There were a lot of opportunities at the time. A lot of companies successfully did ICOs, but no one was doing the real thing. I could tell that MOAC was doing the real thing, so I joined them. I have no regrets for doing so.

I hope I can work at MOAC until I retire. Maybe I wouldn’t mind retiring early.

Source: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/1ifi0EuWAlqtjCwOen2DhQ

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