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Glossary

  • term - short explanation

Definitions

Assets:

Work-product (document, software application, drawing (diagram), picture) that was created and can be:

  • stored,
  • used (executed, applied to), or
  • exchanged (ownership transfer: lend/borrow, inheritance, etc.)

Value:

The intrinsic 'cost' of producing and using a given asset

  • universal unit of credit: cost (node operation cost)
  • present value: (development + production cost)
  • future value: (service cost) -- reputation based

Transaction (Asset (Credits or Debts)-value Transfer):

  • Blockchain->Browser->Distributed File-System->Local File-System->Blockchain->Remote File-System
  1. User->Client (Application)
  2. Client->Browser
  3. Browser (Peer)-to-(Peer)-Network (Blockchain)
  4. ...

Credits:

credit - a given amount granted in exchange of local-resource-time (normally computing power or manual labour) consumption/usage

  • run a service in a remote:node

Debits:

debit - crediting unit referring the used time during required computation

  • debiting-time - time used during computation * fix cost (internet, electricity)
  • visibility (production cost, service price), e.g. (2,34)

Services:

service - an action executed virtually (software) or physically (hardware)

  • eg. (software:x386:server) hashvalueof bigfile.bin
  • (hardware:raspberrypi:io) getoutsidetemp