RE: Introducing PlayMaker Chain - A Blockchain and IoT-Based Solution for Sports Business
Looks promising, although a couple of questions come instantly to mind.
Before anything else though, since you came to post here, I'm curious whether you did a comparative analysis of building on VechainThor versus building on Steem instead ?
I confess that, despite the fact that I bought quite a bunch of VET tokens, I don't know much about VeChain Thor. Went to github and read that is "compatible with the ethereum ecosystem" which to me counts as a negative.
Haven't seen much in terms of dApps built for VeChain aside from a wallet, which is not a good sign either
Do VeChain transactions have fees ? If yes, that's a BIG issue as it seriously impacts usability
I don't quite see in the use case you detail why you'd need "trustless computation" (i.e. "ethereum-style smart contracts").
Anyway, have a look at steem, we have built https://eftg.eu from a steem fork in record time, see details here
As you can read in the above post, we were helped a lot by the steem community. Does VeChainThor have a similarly helpful community of developers with aligned interests ?
Hey, Sorin!
Sorry for a delayed reply.
Here is how things stand on our side...
Our choice to go with a fork of VeChain instead of Steem is largely due to the inbuilt IoT capabilities. IoT was the biggest factor as ours is an IoT heavy solution.
Regarding the "ethereum ecosystem compatibility," we will be deploying different smart contracts that will facilitate various functions of the network. Until we've established a PlayMaker smart contract framework the Ethereum compatibility will be a great compliment.
VeChain has launched several dApps the most common being the OceanX Decentralized Exchange. You'd have to do more research on that if its something you'd like to know more. We've also found the VeChain as helpful, I agree it would have been a challenge if they weren't.
Thanks for the Steem suggestion - perhaps we'll look into it to find solutions we could incorporate into PlayMaker.
In the meantime, since you have given us good feedback regarding what we should explain more thoroughly, we have composed an article about why we have chosen VeChain. You can read it here: https://steemit.com/blockchain/@playmakerchain/why-is-playmaker-building-on-vechain-architecture
Cheers! ;-)