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Introduction

The Revolution Network / Bright Block Soup / BrightChain

Hi, I'm Jessica Mulein. I spent a number of years essentially in the dark reinventing the blockchain- a little like Leibniz and Newton developing calculus independently. I work at Microsoft on the blockchain now and I've been assembling a number of years of ideas and separate projects into essentially one big project which I'm about to describe.

It has previously been called a few things:

• The Cryptographic Theme Park Protocol
• The Revolution Network
• Bright Block Soup (the underlying block store)
• Five by Five Social (the social aspect)

All of these provide analogies to describe the total picture. After having hashed out several analogies, Bright Block Soup makes the most sense for me to use in explaining what the Revolution Network is. I will use it to try and explain.

I think ultimately what is going to shake out is this:

• BrightChain is the technology (like BlockChain) used behind The Revolution Network
• Five by Five social is likely going to be the front-end/face of the Revolution Network
• People will access blocks from brightchain.net
• People will access the site from fivebyfive.social
• Site info/splash pages will be at brightchain.net/therevolution.network

At its core, the Revolution Network is not an app or any one app. It is a protocol/network. It provides an incentive driven ecosystem that inherently is designed to bring out the best collaborators in the network. Users are incentivized by the algorithms of the network to be philanthropic, collaborative, and provide content and resources to the network. It also provides a unique and, prior to this, proprietary mechanism to provide true anonymity while still maintaining an ability to moderate the network. Aberrant behaviors in the network are disincentivized and penalized.

How is this accomplished? Let's move on to Architecture.