A lot of good progress is being made now as we move towards an MVP (minimum viable product).

There’s loads of great information about SAFE on the forums, on the MaidSafe site, in the documentation, on GitHub, on Medium, on podcasts, on YouTube, and in various blogs, but you have to know where to look. The other thing is, when things are moving fast it quickly goes out of date.

So I thought I’d pull together some key facts for three key groups: 1) new people who want to see what SAFE is and maybe create a website, 2) crypto-folks and 3) developers interested in creating apps for SAFE.

They are deliberately short and sweet and simple, because I plan to update them every couple of weeks as new and exciting developments roll in. They’re designed to be edited so please let me know if I’ve got anything wrong or missed anything vital. For a more in depth take please see the SAFE Network Primer. It is availabe online here and on SAFE at safe://safenetworkprimer2.

Last update: 01 August 2019

The website was updated in April with a new look and feel safenetwork.tech.

Engineers and devs - check out the revolutionary PARSEC consensus algorithm [GitHub] [intro video here] [technical overview video here]. Bye bye blockchain?

10 key facts for new users

10 key facts for crypto-heads

MaidSafeCoin is a token that was created in a crowdsale in 2014 to support the project. It can be traded but not farmed (mined). When the SAFE Network launches, MaidSafeCoin will be converted to the network’s cryptocurrency Safecoin on a 1:1 basis. MaidSafeCoin is currently traded on Poloniex and HitBTC exchanges. You can buy it with Bitcoin and exchange it with other cryptocoins and tokens. Beware MAID coins on other exchanges - they may be scams. The SafeCoin name is also being used by another project - this is nothing to do with MaidSafe. MaidSafeCoin is based on the Omni protocol and can be stored online in an Omniwallet or offline in a hardware or paper wallet. When the SAFE Network goes live you will be able to ‘farm’ (mine) Safecoin by offering resources (CPU and storage) to the network. There is no blockchain and no proof-of-work. [10 key facts about SAFE Network farming] Not being based on a blockchain avoids many of the scalability and sustainability issues facing Bitcoin. There’s a detailed (but slightly dated) discussion on the differences between Bitcoin and Safecoin here. Safecoin will be used to buy storage and services on SAFE Network, and paid to people providing resources to the network by farming. App developers may also be paid for their work. [Not confirmed yet, see here and many other threads on this forum] Some issues remain to be resolved including divisibility. A Safecoin is data rather than a number stored on a blockchain making it harder to subdivide than Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. [See here and other threads on this forum]

10 key facts for devs