Blockstack Pauses App Mining Pilot Because of Running Challenges
Blockstack’s privacy-centric computing network and app ecosystem have halted its pilot for the App Mining due to a number of challenges. Let’s check to Blockstack Pauses App Mining Pilot Because of Running Challenges.
The App Mining project rolled out in 2018, is designed to encourage developers to build Blockstack applications. Though the startup has recently seen a healthy device growth during 2019 — from 46 to over 400 apps so far — it has acknowledged a number of difficulties in managing a platform of growing size and complexity, according to a Feb. 10 blog post.
Three major challenges to resolve
As such, Blockstack has agreed to pause the pilot until it addresses key issues, including unbiased fair distribution, analytics that protect privacy and decentralization. Blockstack aims to produce better rating metrics used to reward apps that provide user experience of the highest quality and place users in charge of their data and privacy.
In addition, the company is expected to create a tool to monitor user activity of an app that does not use data and privacy from the users. Such a quality metric will allow Blockstack to assess how good an application is. Finally, the company faces the challenge of deciding what possible independent entity or resource will reasonably distribute Stacks (STX) tokens to participants in the App Mining.
“Blockstack PBC will no longer run the App Mining program. We’re calling for a major overhaul of the App Mining program and not incremental improvements. Any new version of App Mining will be driven by individuals or entities other than Blockstack PBC and likely will not launch until Stacks 2.0 is operational,” the post pointed out.
Recent developments at Blockstack
Blockstack partnered with Lambda School last August to enable students enrolled in the program to learn how to code Blockstack apps and earn monthly income through their App Mining Program.
Blockstack also intended to provide a range of tools for quality control at the time. That student-developed, decentralized application was set for review and extensive user-testing videos.
Blockstack has received approval from SEC for its $28 million public token bid. That was the first offer under Regulation A+ approved by the SEC which would offer a token rather than a share.
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Published at Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:41:57 +0000
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