Evaluate TUDelft Trustchain software

[synctext]

@datafluisteraar indicated you are doing great work on identity and blockchain in general. For the past decade we've deployed and improved ledger technology and are working with the government to deploy legally-valid self-sovereign identity solutions.

We would like to work together with Zuidhorn municipality to have a medical doctor create a cryptographically validated claim-of-birth. see our exploratory work with 4 students.

Could you please evaluate our technology and perhaps consider trying it out? Our scalable blockchain can do 10k transactions per second, without servers. Pointers:

• stats for big claim, TUDelft is home to largest European lab
• identity reports of 15 students on identity and account recovery
• lab overview in general: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki
• our IETF standard draft

[jamalv]

@synctext thx for reaching out! Maybe a good first step is to add trust chain to the platform comparison? See: https://github.com/teamforus/research-and-development/issues/29 / readme

@maxvisser

[MaartenForus]

Hello @synctext! I have asked @datafluisteraar for your contact information. I will send an email to discuss cooperation and will inform Zuidhorn.

[bkaptijn]

Like to add to this that this really fits Discipl. See our latest pitch (note that this is still a concept):

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MwfuZd1rYBDqp3kTlQ7T8P-VlYAeRLlHqBWVMNa8RNU/edit?usp=sharing

We are creating a verifiable claims API on top of the platforms already mentioned in the comparison mentioned above (IOTA, Ethereum, Trustchain, ...). We add to this a so called Discipl Pattern and Discipl vision (originating from the one at the hackathon). We've several projects starting soon with municipalities as well as organisations like DUO / UWV / ministry of finance with which all this may get kickstarted. We (Steven, me, ICTU) would like to collaborate on this with both forus as TU Delft.

[maxvisser]

@bkaptijn @synctext will look at Trustchain whitepaper and add it to our platform comparison PoC.

Are there any known implementations of Trustchain? Any information you can provide for me to make a good comparison will help.

[bkaptijn]

Well Tribler itself (a sort of decentralised youtube) is their main example. But it is a steep learning curve (?). I still need to look into it myself; short of time. So to overcome this I intent to designate one of our Discipl projects (with a little budget from a client of ours) to develop a solution using a Discipl core - binding implementation to trustchain, just like we dit with IOTA for the municipality of Haarlem. Learn by doing. Hope that Forus and TU Delft is willing to join in this effort.

[maxvisser]

"Could you please evaluate our technology and perhaps consider trying it out? Our scalable blockchain can do 10k transactions per second, without servers. " @synctext If what @bkaptijn says is true, how do you expect me to try the software out?

I looked at the Discipl core (https://github.com/discipl/core). The concept looks promising, the code looks not really fully fleshed out yet.

[bkaptijn]

About the discipl code: Thats right. We've just started. About trustchain: I didn't say it can't be tried out, just that I didn't had time for it and it just doesn't seem to be really easy (to find where to look). So i propose to build a discipl binding in context of a (paid) pilot project just to try out trustchain.

[maxvisser]

Thanks @bkaptijn for a clarification. We will email you to discuss this even more and maybe plan a meeting. I will look into trustchain and will update this issue with the results.