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Enabling Common-Good Infrastructure at University/College Blockchain Clubs Across the World
4 years ago
I am a professor in engineering at the University of Texas of Austin. I am proposing an effort that enables infrastructure for the benefit of the community. This infrastructure will be managed by University/College based Blockchain clubs from across the world, beginning with clubs in the USA and India. Please find the proposal here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vG0\_mdUj9R-K6HvcavhTvoEw-IPR1XRFy6XWGjvSmT4/edit?usp=sharing I would greatly appreciate your feedback on this proposal.
Comments (4)
I love the idea of university clubs getting into blockchain and commend the proposal. If the focus of project is to bring S3 like storage to the blockchain then it sounds similar to something like Crust Network, which had to go through a slot auction. I'm not too familiar with how much more of a need we have to take and store snapshots so maybe its more important than I'm thinking right now. What I would like to know more of is how this common good infrastructure would differ from current or already proposed solutions (again going back to something like Crust)
Thank you for the feedback and question. The biggest difference is that it would be storage, compute to student-centric University/College clubs, and enable them to build new projects and prototype ideas on this infrastructure. Our goal is to enable greater participation from them into Web3 while simultaneously enhancing infrastructure for Web3 at the same time.
I like this idea in theory, although I haven't had a chance to look deeply into it yet. (although, as a CMU alumnus and former lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh, please fix the typo - Pittsburg is a city in Kansas, Pittsburgh is the city in Pennsylvania =) )
Thank you for catching the typo! We will make sure to fix it in the onchain submission.