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collections/solutions/crowdfunding/cf.md

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+# Crowd Funding Through Membership
+
+Do first version from existing company, might be TF DMCC (Dubai)
+
+The basic fees are:
+
+- 1 year basic membership: 20 USD
+  - all features as mentioned below
+- 1 year gold membership: 120 USD
+  - help 10 others to be online on our system for one year
+  - invite others with your code, you can donate this to a pool which will reward them automatically of give the code out yourself to your friends.
+  - you account gets a "gold" flag to allow everyone to see you contribution.
+
+## What is included in the fee
+
+- free access to ecosystem apps e.g. RedZ
+- upto 1,000 hours of viewing video
+- upto 10 hours of video creation (1 USD per hour extra)
+- 10 GB of free storage for your digital life
+
+### Unique features for our members (Q2 2024)
+
+The following features will be added to allow you to arrange your digital life in a more convenient and sovereign way:
+
+- your personal ebook, blog and website hosting on our Mycelium Network (end2end ecrypted, unbreakable network).
+- your personal virtual assistent which helps you to arrange your digital life (agenda, contacts, meetings) and consume AI in a safe and more convenient way.
+- your personal "digital twin" which is the future of the internet, representing you for all your digital requirements, expect many more features and capabilities to be made available to you.
+- your personal Bitcoin Lightening Wallet.
+- and soooo much more coming ... 
+
+## Why this way
+
+The primary concern with services like Facebook, Tiktok,... is their business model, which hinges on monetizing user data and attention. 
+
+Users, instead of being customers, become the product: 
+- their personal information, preferences, and online behavior are collected, analyzed, and sold to advertisers.
+- this raises serious privacy concerns but also leads to a platform ecosystem designed to maximize user engagement often at the cost of mental well-being and social cohesion. 
+  
+In contrast, a model where users pay for network, storage and computing resources promotes a more equitable and privacy-respecting environment. 
+
+In such a system, the users are co-creators of an ecosystem, not the product. This approach fosters a sense of collective ownership and responsibility, as everyone contributes to the maintenance and improvement of the service. It also encourages the development of features and policies that genuinely benefit the user community, rather than prioritizing ad revenue. 
+
+By paying directly for the services we use, we can create a healthier, more sustainable, and user-focused internet ecosystem.
+
+**Your membership fee is 100% used to provide and enhance the services of the network and provided applications. Transparent reporting will be setup to demonstrate the utilization of the funds.**
+
+## Become a Internet Farmer
+
+Becoming a "farmer" or "miner" of compute, storage, and network capacity involves contributing your own hardware resources to our decentralized network. 
+
+> We are not a crypto project ! We are structured as a cooperative where all members help their peers with 100% transparent reward model. 
+
+Here's how you can become a part of this ecosystem:
+
+1. **Acquiring Hardware**: Start by acquiring the necessary hardware. This includes computers with sufficient processing power, storage devices, and a reliable internet connection. You can buy the hardware from our cooperative and as part of the crowd funding.
+
+2. **Providing Resources**: Once connected, your system will start contributing its resources (storage, compute, or network bandwidth) to the network. Your role as a 'farmer' is to ensure that your system is running smoothly and is reliably connected to the network.
+
+3. **Earning Rewards**: You are incentivized for the amount and quality of resources provided.
+
+4. **Extending the Network**: By contributing your resources, you're helping to extend the network's capacity. This expanded capacity enables more users to access sovereign internet applications without relying on traditional centralized models where they might be the product.
+
+5. **Promoting Sovereignty**: Your participation helps promote a more sovereign and autonomous internet, where users have greater control over their data and are not subject to the whims of large corporations. It contributes to an ecosystem where services are user-centric and privacy-focused.
+
+By becoming a farmer in this system, you're not just providing a service; you're part of a movement towards a more decentralized, user-empowered internet. This approach can potentially reshape how we interact with the online world, prioritizing user privacy, ownership, and control over personal data.
+
+> [more information about how to become a farmer see here.](redz/threefold_redz/threefold_farming.md)
+
+
+

collections/solutions/farming/farming.md

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+# ThreeFold Farming
+
+Farming means a person offers compute, storage and network capacity to the network
+
+- Farmers buy a node (500-2000 USD)
+- A farmer connects the node(s) to internet and get rewards for providing capacity
+- A farmer earns rewards upto 300 USD per month (for platinum).
+- A farmer is helping his/her community to get access to sovereign Internet applications on an unbreakabale co-owned Internet.
+
+## Farming
+
+
+## Income for the farmers
+
+A farmer can chose their own pricing but recommended are:
+
+- 1-5 USD per person using the 3Nodes of the Farmer.
+  - 50% of this fee goes to farmer, 50% to farming cooperative
+- 5 USD per TB Storage per month
+  - 50% of this fee goes to farmer, 50% to farming cooperative
+- farmer defines price per TB transfer
+  - max 5 USD in Europe/US, max 10 USD elsewhere
+  - 80% of this fee goes to farmer, 20% to farming cooperative
+
+
+
+### 3Node Silver
+
+Will cost less than 500 USD.
+
+### 3Node Gold
+
+![](img/bl_silver.png)
+
+Will cost less than 1000 USD.
+
+### 3Node Platinum
+
+![](img/bl_7840c.png)
+
+Will cost less than 1800 USD.
+
+
+### 3Node Datacenter
+
+- put your own 3Node in a datacenter of choice, make sure you have great and cost effective reliable connectivity to internet.
+- The Farmer buys their own hardware, ThreeFold supports the farmer to get up and running.
+
+### 3Node Dedicated Rental
+
+- rent a node in a dacenter, make sure you have good capacity in that datacenter. Companies like OVH and Hetzner come to mind as reliable and cost effective.
+
+### Remarks
+
+> For [simulation check here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D6Q3Yav_SS356zAILwN4SrmqwYfLibT3E6oWrVPU4c8/edit#gid=170998100)
+
+<br>
+
+> the exact specs and look and feel can be different, but minimal resources will be the same
+
+
+## Remarks
+
+### Free Incoming Internet Traffic.
+
+"Incoming internet traffic should be enabled to earn rewards from network bandwidth.
+
+If a farmer lacks this capability, their 3Node will connect to a neighboring 3Node with good internet connectivity and public incoming access. In this case, the neighbor farmer will earn money from the internet traffic, while the farmer will continue to earn rewards for compute and storage."
+
+All traffic is end2end encrypted over the Mycelium network = our P2P Network which lives on top of current Internet.
+
+**There are 3 ways incoming traffic is possible.**
+
+- IPv6 public ip address available
+- IPv4 public ip address available (harder)
+- Portforwarding or UPNP Incoming (we need tutorial how to check)
+
+

collections/solutions/infra/solution.md

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+# Solution
+
+We need to work in steps and go careful to resolve the issues
+
+## Phase 1
+
+- Do crowdfunding from TF DMCC ([see here](redz/crowdfunding/cf.md))
+  - This crowdfunding will pay for cloud services (see below)
+- TF Senior Consultants help    
+  - e.g. Jan, Azmy, Thabet, Lee
+  - fix and improve issues. This service will be free.
+- ThreeFold will host the solution on its decentralized and add required capacity fees will be
+  - 10 USD per TB (2.5x less compared to Amazon, ...) transfer
+  - 5 USD per TB stored
+  - 0.1 USD per user per month
+- ThreeFold helps to run the operations
+  - will help build all required procedures.
+  - will help build monitoring solution for infra and bandwidth
+  - all will be documented in git based private repositories
+- ThreeFold will decentralize in such a way to provide following benefits.
+  - better uptime
+  - more performance
+  - less chance to be shutdown
+- **ThreeFold will reach out to own network and help with crowd funding**
+
+
+## Phase 1.1
+
+Decentralized the current solution with minimal change for the appl developers, aim is to support 10m people.
+
+- operational requirements
+  - good backups on current DB
+  - automatic daily restore on 2 chosen locations, these DB's are available but read only, so we know backup works
+- technical improvements
+  - use geo DNS to make sure customers have best possible accesstime
+  - use redis as pub/sub mechanism, help developers to make change
+  - install decentralized redis (so available in all locations)
+  - host web front ends on +20 location capable to deal with load upto 10m people
+  - roll out our own CDN on +20 locations
+
+## Phase 1.2
+
+Help developers to create the solution for 2.0 which will provide all required benefits.
+
+Help RedZ with legal and financial advice, see which structures to create to provide safety for the team. Use legal team who is already working with TF.
+
+## Phase 2.0
+
+Introduce the Digital Twin concept and roll out the solution of the future which will introduce unlimited freedom while maintaining minimal required responsibility.
+
+We believe phase 2 has the biggest chance to resolve the issues as mentioned before.
+
+> [see solution in more detail here](redz/solution/solution_vs_issues.md)

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+
+# Solutions in relation to Issues
+
+## high CDN cost = Content Delivery
+
+- cost goes to 10 USD at start, from v2.0 can be even lower.
+ 
+## High cost of operations
+
+- ThreeFold has developed a self healing capable system which can be adjusted for the operrations of RedZ.
+
+## Ability to be shut down on the public cloud
+
+- from v2.0 it will be extremely difficult to shutdown this service.
+
+## App not ready to scale
+
+- There is no scalability limit to v2.0, it can scale to billions.
+
+## Ability to shutdown the mobile apps
+
+- one app will be called TFConnect and will be the app running the peer2peer network Mycelium, identity management, reputation management, reliable message bus, geo dns, content caching,... TFConnect will be available for all major desktop and mobile platforms.
+- Then there will be multiple apps which can be native and web, the apps will talk to TFConnect on the device or desktop.
+- We suggest to also develop a rich web app which connects on the Phone to TFConnect, this cannot be blocked and would be ideal fall back solution in case the native mobile app gets blocked. Current web technology can be made in such a way it would act almost the same compared to native, thanks to TFConnect it would still be fast and highly responsive.
+
+## GDPR
+
+- By design resolved in 2.0, all data is owned by the user.
+
+## Legal potential trouble
+
+- Resolved by consultancy from TF, it can be done but is not trivial.
+
+## Redundancy / Uptime
+
+- v2.0 is 100% redundant and should never be able to go down.
+
+## Performance
+
+- v2.0 works as local as it can, providing best possible performance, as the network grows performance will be better for the users.
+
+## protect against human error
+
+- good procedures and using more of our self healing tech might help here.
+
+
+