PrivateNESS starategy

Aleksej Sokolov
4 min readJul 21, 2024

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A WORD FROM NEW CEO

Greetings Everyone.

I am the new CEO of PRIVATENESS, Aleksej Sokolov. I was elected as a CEO by PrivateNess general council. Previous CEO, Jeff Bouchard remains my deputy and CTO.

WHO WANTS YOUR INFORMATION

We live in a world where everyone want to own and monetize your private information.

Systems like BIG DATA collects all information available about your person and sells it to the maximum amount of interested companies or persons. And those are only legal information collectors.

Government and supranational organizations experiencing increasing will to power and control, they want to collect all your data available including data of your body. They also push you to use certain unreliable technologies such as smartphones and SMS to communicate with outer world. These technologies are unreliable in many ways but they make it easier to track and control you. They have unlimited resources to bend you to their will and they rely in the first place on intelligence and information gathering.

WHAT IS PRIVATENESS

You are living in the world where you are transparent to the system and the system is completely private to you. And in this world, privateness is most valuable product, if you have not realized it yet, you will realize it soon.

In the first place privateness is your own skills to secure your information. We, or any other people or company can only provide a piece of a complete privacy system build by your own hands and mind.

WHO WE ARE

We are a small team of privateness enthusiasts, who want to help the people to secure their private life.

HOW WE CAN HELP YOU TO SECURE YOUR PRIVACY

Our aim is to provide you an open-source based technology and currency for independent data storage services.

WHY MICROSERVICES

NO CENTRAL AUTHORITY

  • No central server
  • No central system
  • No central authority
  • Blockchain is only central authority.

AUTHORIZATION THROUGH BLOCKCHAIN

All users and nodes are registered in blockchain. All communication between user and node is signed and encrypted using “public key encryption” (PKI).

NO CENTRAL POINT OF FAILURE

If there is no central server, there is no central point of failure.

EVEN A SMALL DEVICE CAN HANDLE IT

Even a Raspberry PI 3 or any comparable device can handle it.

A PART OF A BIGGER SYSTEM

You can connect many small microservices to a one big service. For example you can connect many small file storage services to a one big cloud storage, or you can connect file storage service and database service to a web server.

WHAT IS ALREADY DONE

Conception

Simple service and complicated client

That means, all the logic is stored on the client and you can always change the logic by changing the client and leaving the whole infrastructure unchanged.

New PKI

New public key infrastructure using standardized JSON files for keypair and other data storage on client. <WORM> format for public key and other data storage on blockchain.

Blockchain user registration

All user and service nodes are registered in blockchain using <WORM> format. There are also higher level of blockchain records — entities. Entity can be a human or company and it can be connected to service node through signature (service node belongs to human or company).

Codebase

Working service node with file-service

We have working service node with file service and UHE-PRNG service.

Console client (Privateness Tools)

We have simple console client for all our infrastructure

  • Key generation
  • Key management
  • Listing and searching service nodes
  • Connecting and communicating with service node
  • Working with file service (file encrypting, uploading, downloading, decrypting, listing, and other operations with files and directories).
  • Keys backup

WHAT WE PLAN

FURTHER DEV AND TESTING

Development is a continuous process consisting of debug, refactoring and support.

Mobile Client

Mobile client for file service with file encryption, uploading, downloading, decryption, directory structure management, nodes listing and management, backup on node.

WHAT WE NEED

Development and marketing budget

Development Team

We need Python and PHP coders

  • Python: Kivy, PyNacl, Threading, Mobile development experience will be an advantage 3+ coders
  • PHP: libSodium 1+ coders
  • Experience the more the better

Marketing

We are planning to spend on marketing at least half of our budget.

INVESTMENT PLAN

Total plan

We are planning to gather 10 BTC for development and marketing.

Initial price

Initial price is 0.000001 BTC (100 satosies) for 1 NESS.

The price will increase and follow the market price, so as faster you will buy NESS as more NESS you will get for a smaller price.

Advantage

You can buy large amount of NESS for a fixed price without raising the price up.

You have a great opportunity to become a father-founder and join PrivateNess fund.

PrivateNess Fund

33 biggest NESS owners will join Privateness Fund.

The P.F. or a board of directors will become a core of a large PrivateNess community.

The P.F. will decide the future strategy of PrivateNess, where to invest, which actions to take and which people to support.

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