Technology & Choice, and SAFE Crossroads podcasts John Ferguson

It is a delight to have back two previous guests, Nikita Baksalyar and Lionel Faber, for a wide-ranging conversation that touches on many advances in SAFE Network development. Centering around the recently released Vault program library, we explore the implications of other advances, including new data types, how they relate to each other, safecoin integration, and a lot more.

The concept of the Perpetual Web--private, secure and free--takes on much greater clarity.

Enjoy.

Music

Safe Crossroads Beta, an original piece composed and performed by Nicholas Koteskey of Two Faced Heroes

Links

[New Release: Phase 1 Vaults -- Medium article](https://medium.com/safenetwork/new-release-phase-1-vaults-9c0d24661c1)

[maidsafe.net](https://maidsafe.net/)

[safenetwork.tech](https://safenetwork.tech/) -- The best place to start to get an understand of the SAFE Network as a whole

[SAFE Network Forum](https://safenetforum.org/) -- SAFE Network community forum

[safecrossroads.net](https://safecrossroads.net) -- Home site for this podcast

The SAFE Network is a project of such large scope, doing things that have never been done, it can be hard to wrap one's head around the whole thing without a lot of work. But in the end it is for people to use. It needs to be easily adopted and made to work by everyone.

As core development progresses rapidly towards beta launch, tracking the evolution of the user experience (UX) development can help everyone understand the potentialities for this vast project from a practical, people-empowering perspective.

To help us with that we talk to Jim Collinson, a UX Designer at MaidSafe. He walks us through some of the approaches and priorities of UX design in general, and shares insights about the process of evolving UX in parallel to the core team putting final form to the networks basic functionality.

MUSIC

*Safe Crossroads Beta*, an original piece composed and performed by Nicholas Koteskey of Two Faced Heroes

LINKS

https://maidsafe.net

https://safenetwork.tech -- The best place to start to get an understand of the SAFE Network as a whole

Designing the New Internet: SAFE Network UX Roadmap --https://safenetforum.org/t/designing-the-new-internet-safe-network-ux-roadmap/29089 -- Article under discussion, part one

Designing the New Internet: How We’ll Get There -- https://safenetforum.org/t/designing-the-new-internet-how-well-get-there/29095 -- Article under discussion, part two

Safecoin: The best thing to do is just forget about it --https://safecrossroads.net/articles/safecoin-the-best-thing-to-do-is-just-forget-about-it/ -- Previous article about Safecoin not being the primary focus of the SAFE Network project

https://safenetforum.org -- SAFE Network community forum
https://safecrossroads.net -- Home site for this podcast

MaidSafe's Crust (Connections in Rust) program library was necessary due to lack of existing tech to do what was needed for the SAFE Network.

The QUIC protocol has evolved and now provides a connection solution which the whole internet will likely be moving to--really great for the internet at large, and really handy for the SAFE Network's development. The SAFE project will be an early adopter, because the protocol already contains the needed functionality to make further development of Crust unnecessary.

We talk about this move, the nature of both Crust and QUIC, and more, with MaidSafe's back-end lead, Spandan Shamar. As usual Spandan is very helpful in breaking this all down for us simple folks, but hopefully being informative to dev types, as well.

MUSIC *Safe Crossroads Beta*, an original piece composed and performed by Nicholas Koteskey of Two Faced Heroes

LINKS
safenetwork.tech - https://safenetwork.tech

SAFE Crossroads Podcast #22 SAFE School, Class V, Connecting All - https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/safe-crossroads-podcast-22-safe-school-class-v-connecting-all/

SAFE Crossroads #46, Connection Needs of an Autonomous Network, with Spandan Sharma - https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/safe-crossroads-46-connection-needs-of-an-autonomous-network-with-spandan-sharma

QUIC, Quinn and Crust: an Update - https://safenetforum.org/t/quic-quinn-crust-an-update/28455

Post re SAFE Network Project Plan/Roadmap - https://safenetforum.org/t/the-2019-safe-network-roadmap-project-plan/28533