Dan recently put out a video on 3speak and a blog on hive. It was recapped here by taskmaster. Dan's looking to make use of a decentralized layer 2 for communities and video. His plan involves fungible tokens and non-fungible tokens. As it turns out... I have a lot of that built.
What language did you write that in @aggroed?
While I can make the argument that Hive-Engine is secured by the layer 1 blockchain, it's never satisfactory enough as an answer to the hardcore decentralize everything fanatics. Turns out I agree enough with the sentiment enough that many moons ago I contracted @harpagon, the original creator of steem-engine and hive-engine to build a P2P system. We got pretty far, but the thing fizzled out. I have code to do this, but it needs bug testing, a test net, and likely some tweaks along the way.
So, the good news is that I'm already pretty far along with what Dan and segments of the community are asking for, but the bad news is that with Hive at 15 cents and a very rigorous business logic roadmap I don't have wiggle room to get over the hump. Add on top of that we have accumlated some techincal debt, especially with our account history setup, and it's unclear how we're going to get it all done any time soon without some help.
That's where you, the community, can come into help. I'm asking the Hive Community to help us to further decentralize the backend of hive-engine, assist Dan with getting his project fully decentralized, and make this thing as robust as possible with many off the shelf no-code smart contracts that users can deploy.
Part 1 sounds like "do we really have to decentralise this?" - yet you point out that this is important due to the failure of other centralised structures.
15 Cents Hive has been around for a while... and it's a problem now? So you want free labour, or am I wrong?
Nope, not asking for free labour but free 'community' labor. Which might sound the same but in fact is slightly 'different'. };)