This morning as the mist rises through the valley above Mestia, yet to reveal the majestic Greater Caucuses, the calendar rolls over marking my one year anniversary at CoW DAO as a "Core Contributor". It's a fitting place to mark this milestone - though it's not my permanent place of abode - it is the place where important milestones have intersected between CoW DAO and myself. It's also quite appropriate considering this village is synonymous with the literal cows that are known to roam its charming medieval streets.

This is a deep-dive on the Swarm Storage Incentives. Contained within is guidance on how to optimise performance in the "Schelling Game" - the core component of the storage incentives. The article includes details for using tools to optimise this performance. There is NO tl;dr - understanding how to optimise performance REQUIRES knowledge of some Swarm primitives. If you're in for the long haul, read on enthusiastic bee 🐝...

In 2014, it was hypothesised that a decentralised web3 could result in removing the need to have servers at all. This gave birth to the holy trinity of web3:

Use OpenBZZ, a permissionless, censorship resistant dapp Hosted on Swarm to:

Blockchain sits at the fore-front of novel, technological development, with most software being written by specialists, with little attention given to the end user experience - out-of-date documentation (when the documentation actually exists!) and howtos attempting to guide people through being able to actually use the software.