{"id":36655,"date":"2022-12-16T12:45:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T12:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gridnet.org\/wpp\/?p=36655"},"modified":"2022-12-20T10:53:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T10:53:17","slug":"brief-introductory-for-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gridnet.org\/wpp\/index.php\/2022\/12\/16\/brief-introductory-for-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief Introductory for Operators"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Welcome! Okay, so you\u2019ve already decided on or are still considering becoming an Operator!\u00a0<\/span>Or maybe you are just about to discover what\u00a0\u22ee\u22ee\u22ee<\/span> is. Discovering it\u00a0certainly is a journey.<\/p>\n

In any case, good for you. Good for the \u22ee\u22ee\u22ee Community and perhaps good\u00a0for humanity. The more of us,- the stronger we become! Who are ‘we’ ? People who became tired of the loosely defined ‘centralized crap’ attempted to be administered down our throats through centralized services and media.<\/p>\n

We believe that information wants to be free. We believe in decentralized organizations. We believe in open markets. We believe in anonymity. We believe we know what we do, we believe we know what is good for us, we believe we are perfectly fine on our own. We read what we want and we watch and share what we wish. We believe in progress instead of regression, we write code which promotes recent research and efficiency instead of remaining stuck in 2010\u00a0with technology just like Bitcoin did – creating a religion with ‘evangelists’ running all around hoping for profits. We focus on good proper, useful tech instead.\u00a0 If you identify yourself with these statements – you might find \u22ee\u22ee\u22ee Community to be the right place for you.<\/p>\n

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We are people who perfectly do understand that thanks to advancements in science and technology we can now come up with with way ‘better’\u00a0 means of providing value exchange,- but also services of any sort, ones possibly spanning across physical environments as well. The more decentralization, the more freedom is all around. We neither need banks nor ‘Good Pappas’ overlooking our shoulders.<\/p>\n

And you are free to disagree, which is what freedom is about.<\/p>\n

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Operators – the Guardians of Freedom<\/p><\/div>\n

The aim of this article is to\u00a0serve as an introductory for individuals interested in becoming Operators. It provides some\u00a0preliminary materials, every Operator should be aware of. As we go along, the article\u00a0will\u00a0take you step by step through setting up a\u00a0\u22ee\u22ee\u22ee Node of your own. By reading through this very article, and by looking to the supplementary materials (such as research papers) you will get a solid overview of what is going on under the hood and equip yourself with utilities\u00a0which\u00a0could be used to assess your node\u2019s state and to introduce changes, if and as needed in the future.<\/p>\n

Should you wish to dive into the technicalities involved, so to better understand the differences between GRIDNET OS and previous technologies such as Ethereum or Bitcoin,- feel invited to read through our recent peer-reviewed Research Paper made available open access over\u00a0here<\/a>. Should any part of it be unclear or grab your interest in particular,-\u00a0 GRIDNET Talk (https:\/\/talk.gridnet.org\/<\/a>) is the right place to discuss. Ideas, thoughts? Feel invited to share! We are passionate about what we do and we certainly would greet other passionate fellas with welcoming hands. There are lots of crazy (cool) ideas, such as enabling for solar-powered crypto-incentivized routers in the midst of rural Africa, feel invited to bring ideas of your own along.. most of what we do has scientific, peer reviewed research to back it up, either pending or already published.<\/p>\n

Did you know? There are now well over 50TB of \u22ee\u22ee\u22ee LIVE-programming sessions stored on YouTube, made available almost each and every day since the early 2017. Today most likely included. Everything to become open-source soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Operators maintain the \u22ee\u22ee\u22ee Eco-System. As an Operator, you will be responsible; – for maintaining the network operational and in good standing. On the other hand – there are benefits involved as well, – it is an opportunity for you to profit, through the system-intrinsic cryptocurrency, as yet again- everything was designed to be incentive compatible indeed.\u00a0 The Proof-of-Work difficulty is now rather low, so the sooner you jump aboard the better. The higher chances of winning the Proof-of-Work race. In fact, as of now, you might be ‘profitable’ with a either a\u00a0 low-end GPUs or even CPU. As an Operator,\u00a0 you will get to vote, you will get to choose. While neither you, nor any of us,\u00a0has control over the entire network, – which\u00a0we presume as desirable (as the system was designed to offer an alternative to centralized, possibly invigilated services in the first place, and\u00a0thus opening the doors up to making\u00a0the latter obsolete indeed) – there is still a plethora of management and customization options available – for nodes that you own.<\/p>\n

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It is in your hands- as a highly respected Operator, together with other Operators- to help the eco-system thrive and to remain Operational.\u00a0<\/span> You decide on what basis and to what extent your node(s) are to\u00a0participate within the \u22ee\u22ee\u22ee Eco-System. From the perspective of governance – true decentralization. Nothing more and nothing less. Somewhere around the globe there are people who need your help. They need access to information, they need to get things done, they need<\/em> to let the others know. Without worrying about CEOs of centralized social platforms eliminating their posts or thinking whether some powerful ‘Good Pappas’ bring them into silence, after getting to know who they are (..) for whatever the reason. Nobody forces anyone to participate within the\u00a0\u22ee\u22ee\u22ee Eco-System – it is a choice. It is a privilege. It is an opportunity. For open-minded, bright people, at least.<\/p>\n

As the Old Wizard\ud83e\uddd9 once said: “(..) It is a war even though there are no bullets flying by (..) – there are bits and bytes instead (..)<\/p>\n

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(..) The Old Wizard himself (..)<\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n

Now, if you are worried about ‘inappropriate contents’ being advertised publicly, worry not as we provide mechanics, allowing for these to be assessed by the majority. We certainly shalt not presume the majority to be composed of psychopaths. Do not let others bring your dreams of freedom and decentralization down by relating to adverse scenarios.\u00a0As it already is, in the today’s world we are already well aware of individuals who gladly do exercise their excessive powers, be it for pure satisfaction, profit or due to other subjective reasoning. We want no CEOs. No governmental centralized institutions poking their fingers within. We do not need any of that. We are to allow for hierarchical, yet decentralized organizations to form. We, the \u22ee\u22ee\u22ee Operators, together – are to ensure that nobody, ever, ends up holding excessive powers in their hands. At the bottom of everything, we are thus to lay the underlying security,- in terms of the history of states of the \u22ee\u22ee\u22ee Decentralized State Machine, on the shoulders of the laws of physics. These should be rather strong, and invariant to either politics or financial affections, wouldn’t you agree? So to protect the community against internal and external distractions.<\/p>\n

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Now, Rejoice! As the time has come (..) for us to become truly free (..)<\/p><\/div>\n

Choose Your Path<\/h2>\n

From the high-level, technical perspective,\u00a0your choices\u00a0boil down to deciding which \u22ee\u22ee\u22ee Sub-Systems you wish to have enabled (ex. decentralized storage, web anonymization services, maybe?).<\/p>\n

Going further along these lines, you might wish to help process transactions broadcasted throughout the \u22ee\u22ee\u22ee Network, by enabling the appropriate corresponding \u22ee\u22ee\u22ee Sub-System. Then, you might choose to host assets of \u22ee\u22ee\u22ee Graphical Decentralized Applications (UI dApps in short – which might include games, business apps, social apps or whatever \u22ee\u22ee\u22ee Developers find fascinating to offer). You might choose to offer CPUs which would accommodate \u22ee\u22ee\u22ee\u00a0Decentralized Processing Threads required by the former (..) you might choose to host \u22ee\u22ee\u22ee Decentralized Websites! (..) how about\u00a0helping others around the world in getting anonymous, un-obstructed (ex. by\u00a0 governmental firewalls) access to the World-Wide-Web?\u00a0 \u22ee\u22ee\u22ee GRIDNET Core software embodiments the first-of-its-kind decentralized crypto-intenvitized web-proxy service!<\/p>\n

Did you know? Wizards\ud83e\uddd9 were the first to come up with the very first, scientifically proven, Sybil-proof data-exchange apparatus for computer networks of arbitrary topology. You may find out more in a yet another peer-reviewed research paper published by Springer Nature available right over here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is more (..)\u00a0 you might choose to host either encrypted or plain-text data files of others as they drag and drop these from their native operating system onto the\u00a0\u22ee\u22ee\u22ee File Manager UI dApp (..) Fleeing hungry for experiments ? How about allowing for crypto-incentivized, solar powered wireless mesh networks? Join the forums and simply let these be..<\/p>\n

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If you are interested in involvement of \u22ee\u22ee\u22ee in various kinds of scenarios, including physical environments – the following peer-reviewed research, published by Future Generation Computer Systems – might be of particular interest to you: https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0167739X18307520<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Having a choice enables for customization. Customization enables for optimization. We may have\u00a0nodes dedicated to a single task – such as empowering decentralized, anonymized data-exchange or<\/strong> storage. Other Operators might focus on having their nodes do some heavy lifting by bringing their powerful GPUs into the \u22ee\u22ee\u22ee System.<\/p>\n

While some of this might\u00a0sound complicated, or even overwhelming, in terms of all the possibilities and choices.. as far as configuration goes, if you choose to enable all of the sub-systems (which is by default, which might turn out to be most profitable on a typical hardware) –\u00a0 all it takes to deploy a fully operational \u22ee\u22ee\u22ee Node (and for you to profit)\u00a0 – is to launch an automated installer catered for Microsoft Windows, launch\u00a0the \u22ee\u22ee\u22ee\u00a0 app and to let it be. Your GPUs would be auto-configured, network configuration detected and configured autonomously as well, same goes for your private key and so on.. then keep your eyes and ears open for updates. We wouldn’t be introducing global auto-update mechanics, as that would be opening the system up to abuse and centralization even if it were for Wizards themselves.<\/p>\n

Now, how about getting ourselves excited even more? Why don’t we take a look at a 3-minute video-clip showcasing the possibilities as seen from the end-user’s perspective?<\/p>\n