Integration to Microsoft Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service?

General
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Hello,

More and more blockchains are integrated to Azure, almost 30 now:

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Source: p.89 on the slide here: http://www.coindesk.com/state-of-blockchain-q1-2016/
(This is a very data-rich report from coindesk on blockchain trends in general BTW)

This guy at microsoft is in charge of coordinating integration into Azure BaaS:

If someone close enough to the Peercoin community could take time some time to coordinate with him, it would be great.

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Do you have any idea what this integration actually means?

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BaaS integration served as trigger for PnD for several coins, notably Bitshares, Emercoin, Primecoin, Blackcoin. After few hours some pockets were a bit heavier and that is it. I did not notice any long term effects.

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I don’t understand what service is delivered.

With Ethereum I can imagine that they provide an easy way to issue assets and smart contracts.
However, I still do not see where Azure is needed in that story.

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If you dont want to host a node yourself and just want to provide your (web)service on top of that, e.g. peerassets, it kinda makes sense.

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Exactly. BaaS integration is useful to blockchain which can offer some kind of service. If Peerassets takes of, we should integrate Peercoin to Azure.

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Fixed that for you. :wink:

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Thanks for everybody’s answer. What about the Peershares project?

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The Peershares project is not maintained anymore.
And on top of that, people capable of running a Peershares project are more than capable to set up a node themselves.

However, I agree that this would be the best candidate to integrate into Azure right now.
As it might draw some attention into POS chains.

If you need a developer helping to work out the project, feel free to contact me. I’ve set up a Peershares project already and worked with the code.
However, I’m not doing the marketing or business stuff.

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Thanks for your suggestion.
I thought that NuBits and B&C Echange projects were based on it. Did they switch to something else? Maybe I’m not up-to-date :slight_smile:

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[quote=“colin, post:10, topic:3909”]Thanks for your suggestion.
I thought that NuBits and B&C Echange projects were based on it. Did they switch to something else? Maybe I’m not up-to-date :)[/quote]

They are based on it. The Nu/B&C devs first created Peershares and built Nu and B&C on top, leaving the Peershares project unmaintained.
Peershares is still a solid base code wise.
But it’s protocol is still peercoin’s protocol v0.3 while peercoin is now on v0.5.
So security wise an upgrade to v0.5 might be a good idea.

I did such an upgrade already, but is insufficiently tested.
And as I’m now helping with PeerAssets as I see that as a good fit for my project, I won’t continue the work on Peershares.

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I see. OK, good luck with PeerAssets! Looking forward for the roadmap.