info_tfgrid/collections/threefold/threefold_cooperative.md
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ThreeFold Cooperative

Any organization who helps a TF Farmer to become active on the TF Grid.

A Cooperative can supply any or all of the following services:

  • Selling required hardware kit for the Farming Pool (compute, storage, networking) to the TF Farmer (and logistics around it).
  • Installing & testing the TF Operating System on the chosen hardware.
  • Burn in testing of the chosen hardware: make sure the hardware is reliable and works following expectations.
  • Configuration & Installation of the ThreeFold Farming Pool.
  • Registration & Initialization of the ThreeFold Farming Pool.
  • Delivering & Executing of hardware Warranty as specified on contract.
  • Creation and Delivery of the ThreeFold Mobile App for the TF Farmer (allow people worldwide to order capacity using TFTs for the Farming Pool.
  • Software support for the Farming Pool
  • Training of the TF Farmer about TF Concepts
    • How to use the TF Wallet
    • How to safely store the TFTs
    • How to go from TFTs to fiat currency like USD/EUR (and visa versa)
    • How to register pricing info on the TF Grid
    • How to integrate a fiat currency payment gateway into existing e-commerce website for the sales of TFTs or TF IT Capacity (e.g. integration with Stripe or other payment mechanism)
    • How to consult/register information on the TF Chain
  • Hosting Services
    • All services related to connectivity to the internet (routing, denial of service, firewalling, ...)
    • Rackspace & other data center services
    • Monitoring of the infrastructure (hardware and software).
  • For Managed Capacity a Cooperative or TF Farmer will have to make an agreement with GIG.Tech to get the required software required to create a Managed Capacity Farming Pool (see below).

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