📞 Join us tomorrow for our monthly Community Call! This session will tackle our website UX, outreach, and making it easier overall for people to join in on the project and take action! More info here:

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The power of decentralization lies in its ability to remove intermediaries and create direct relationships between individuals.

🎥 Kubernetes on ThreeFold: A Mini Video Series Jakub created a mini video series about using Kubernetes on the ThreeFold grid. It is suited mainly for beginners looking to deploy their first workload on the Grid using Kubernetes. The three videos part of this series focus on : 1️⃣ The playground, initial setup & dashboard 2️⃣ The deployment of nginx 3️⃣ The replication & distribution on multiple nodes Check it out and don't forget to give him some feedback! Thanks a lot to Jakub for producing this helpful resource!

Technology is a powerful tool, but with great power comes great responsibility. Let's use it to make a positive impact on the world.

🤖 Farmerbot: A Basic Guide for QAnet Check out this post with all the information shared so far about the Farmerbot, including how to prepare your farm and move it to QAnet for testing, and setting it all up. This is your go-to resource to get started with our new power-saving feature! While Mik took the time to compile all the information available, it was really a community-effort guide as he summarized great advice from other farmers too! While you're diving into this topic, check out our latest blog about it: 'A Power-Saving Feature on the Grid – For Our People and Our Planet'.

Exciting news! 🎉 We are delighted to share that our first vendor outside of the Threefold marketplace has opened their own official webshop for certified 3nodes in Europe! 🌍 Check it out @ https://t.co/r3eKhX1fgQ! They are celebrating by offering FREE SHIPPING in Europe!

🎥 Introducing: ThreeFold Guides! Mik has been busy producing short & digestible video tutorials (between ~1 and 6 minutes) guiding you through the basic steps to get started with ThreeFold! We gathered the first batch of videos on the ThreeFold YouTube channel within a designated playlist. Here are the different topics covered so far: 💡 Create a TF Connect Account & Wallet 💡 How to buy TFT on Lobstr 💡 Adding the Polkadot Extension to the ThreeFold Dashboard 💡 Create an Account on ThreeFold Dashboard 💡 How to Recover your ThreeFold Connect Account 💡 How to Deploy a FUll VM on the ThreeFold Playground 💡 ThreeFold Playground: Full VM, Umbrel, Nostr Relay & Tailscale These will be especially useful to newcomers within the project! Dive in and explore! Thanks a lot to Mik for producing this great content! More coming soon.

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⏰ Reminder: TF DMCC (Grid Commercial Offering) Brainstorm Today A quick reminder that our second brainstorm around the topic of ThreeFold DMCC and grid commercial offerings will happen today at 17:00 CET / 12:00 EDT. Hope you will join us for this important discussion! - Dig into the first brainstorm - Call link for today

👩‍🌾 Farmerbot Testing & a New Node Shop in Europe We are pleased to share two exciting updates on the farming side! 1. The long-awaited Farmerbot feature is now ready for testing on QA Net. Get involved in testing and offering feedback to help the push to mainnet. Thanks to the team for the release and to the community for your patience. 2. The first 3Node webshop outside of the marketplace opened today in Europe. Kudos to Robert / HostService for the launch. From Robert: "We thank the Threefold team for their trust and applaud them for decentralising their project even more with this step. This allows us to provide even better and more efficient services and we are celebrating this by offering FREE SHIPPING in Europe."

🗓 Save the date for March's Community Call Join us next week, on Tuesday 21st at 17:00 CET / 12:00 EDT for March's Community Call! This session will be focused on going over relevant topics discussed in our main chat recently: our website UX, outreach, and making it easier overall for people to join in on the project and take action. We expect input from community members and invite you to join with your ideas and suggestions, and perhaps even expert knowledge in the field, so we can have a fruitful open discussion! Besides, don't forget to join us tomorrow for Brainstorm Session #2 about ThreeFold DMCC & Grid Commercialization at 17:00 CET / 12:00 EDT. Looking forward to interesting conversations during these two upcoming meetings, see you there! Ps: Let us know if you'll be joining us via the polls within the links above.

🔥 Hot on the Forum this week Catching you up with the latest activity on the forum, here we go! 🧠 Brainstorm sessions around the topic of ThreeFold DMCC and Grid Commercialization (GC): Watch the recording of GC brainstorm session #1 or read the notes from the call to be fully caught up, and save the date for GC brainstorm session #2, Wednesday March 15th at 17:00 CET / 12:00 EDT. 🤖 Here are some guidelines to set up your nodes and their networking for Farmerbot! 🎛 Cloud-console will be coming soon to Zero-OS machines! 🌟 Give input on how we should proceed with setting up a referral program for Threefold. 🔒 It seems we are approaching a consensus on how to proceed regarding locking TFT value during deployments. 🪙 The thread replies to the proposal of decommissioning the BSC bridge point toward the fact that the community wants TFT to stay on BSC, at least until we can have another major chain supporting TFT. 🎥 Thanks to Jakub for creating a mini video series about using Kubernetes on the ThreeFold Grid. 💡 Mik experimented and found it was easy to deploy Nostr relays on the Grid via Umbrel. Tutorials coming soon! 📈 View the latest Grid Stats update to see the newest additions to the Grid and its utilization metrics! 📚 If you’re interested in contributing to the ThreeFold Manual, Mik expanded on his simple guide about adding content. 📊 How did you learn about ThreeFold? Let us know via this poll! So far, it seems most people got acquainted through friends or word of mouth. Thanks to all of you creating and engaging with content form the forum! This is our town hall - you can ask questions, find answers, make proposals, share your opinion and discuss any ThreeFold-related topic. We love seeing it active! Each Friday, we send key highlights to our community about the latest news and activity in the ThreeFold ecosystem. You can receive them directly in your mailbox by signing up for our newsletter!

🧠 TF DMCC (Grid Commercialization) Brainstorm Update Last week, we had a great brainstorm with the community around ThreeFold DMCC and different possible options for grid commercial offerings. Today we are happy to share the recording of that call and the notes / recap (below). Additionally, we’re announcing the second brainstorm, which will take place next Wednesday, March 15th, at 17:00 CET / 12:00 EDT.

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For this week, let’s use the forum post and the notes document to build on or add ideas, and we’ll reconvene next week to push this important effort forward. We’re planning the session for ~two hours. Looking forward to seeing you then! Note: We had to reschedule from Tuesday to Wednesday because of the availability of our team members. Hopefully you can make it then!

📝 How to Prepare Your Farm for Farmerbot with WOL With farmerbot coming very soon, Bert took the time to explain “how to set up the technical environment where the farmerbot will operate.” Please take a look here for instructions and use the forum post for questions and feedback. & if all goes well, the team is hoping to open community testing tomorrow.

📚 Learn About Full VMs, Micro VMs, and Containers on ThreeFold Scott is back, this time with an informational / educational presentation about full virtual machines, micro virtual machines, and containers. He explores how these three technologies are at play on the grid, how you can use each of them in deployments, and some of their advantages and quirks. A great resource for grid users and those looking to get started on the grid! Note: This is an informational video, rather than a demo or tutorial. For more info on how to work with micro VM images, see this recent video from Scott

Peer-to-peer technology is enabling new forms of online collaboration and community building.

💡 Using Tailscale Inside of Grid VMs Check out how a VM image with Tailscale integrated can make private networking and SSH super simple on the Grid. Join Scott for a demo and walk through of the features in this video, or check out the written guide in the forum.

Doesn't "ThreeFold Referral Program" sound cool? 😎 Mik thought about a way to use the solution provider program and the Proof-of-Utilization distribution to build a referral program for Threefold. I guess he's the cool one for thinking about it! 🧵

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Join the ongoing discussion about making farming on the ThreeFold Grid more sustainable on the Forum! 🔗https://t.co/oYHVaoNegt

The ThreeFold Law states that any good you do will return to you threefold in this lifetime. By making our technology actionable, we energize a collective approach towards 1 mission – empowering humanity while regenerating our planet in all authenticity.

🔔 Reminder: Grid Commercialisation Brainstorm Call Join us tomorrow, Tuesday February 28th at 17:00 CET / 11:00 EST, to discuss ideas regarding commercial uses of the Grid. Please watch this part of February’s Community Call beforehand, where you'll find a preview of the topic at hand. Find all the details & let us know if you'll join us in this forum post.

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Hey everybody, a number of services including GraphQL, Grid Proxy, Explorer, and Playground are down. I've alerted our operations team, but it's likely that no one will be awake to look at it until morning in Europe. For farmers, this means there won't be any way to check node status remotely for now. There's no need to reboot your nodes. Thanks for your patience until services are restored 🙏🏻

Some discussions are going strong on our Forum. Here are two that caught our attention! 🧵

☎️ Grid Commercialisation Brainstorm Call: Save the Date! Following the interest given to Kristof's message in the main chat last week, we have scheduled a call to discuss ideas regarding commercial uses of the Grid. It will be held on Tuesday February 28th, at 17:00 CET / 11:00 EST. We encourage you to watch this part of February’s Community Call beforehand, where Kristof gives a preview of existing ideas around the topic at hand. Find all the details & let us know if you'll join us in this forum post.

Please provide a warm welcome to our new RMB version! RMB stands for Reliable Message Bus, & Thabet explains what it does best: “It’s the backbone of the communication between the nodes and the users on Threefold grid infrastructure.” More details here:

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As technology advances, it's our responsibility to consider the long-term effects on privacy, security, and civil liberties.

💻 Working with Micro VM Images on the TF Grid Scott demonstrates how to create and manipulate micro VM images for deployment on the ThreeFold Grid in the video linked below! 🔗 Forum post about this topic:

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Starting a series of ‘Fun facts about the internet’! You'll find new one added to this thread every Thursday. Here’s #1: The internet was originally called the ARPANET and was developed by the United States Department of Defense.

What is Zero-OS? Zero-OS is a lightweight and efficient operating system. There is no shell, local nor remote (unless when run in debug mode). It supports a small number of primitives; the low-level functions it could perform natively in the operating system.

As a follow up to today’s post, there were some small unexpected delays with the upgrade to mainnet. The upgrade will resume and finish tomorrow. 🙏

As a decentralized project, we continuously strive to improve our documentation, making it easier for anyone who wants to pitch in the project - and it just got a little better! 📚 More info here:

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Decentralization is the future of data privacy and control over personal information.

People 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 & Planet 🌍 first. That is part of our mission. We have always believed that technology can help some of humanity’s greatest challenges – for example by providing the foundation for an interconnected world that can enable abundance to spread.

RT @bl0ckchainspace: Top 5 Gainers Of The Week 📈 19.02.2023 1️⃣ $WELT +138% 2️⃣ $TFT +48% 3️⃣ $FEG +40% 4️⃣ $ZEE +39% 5️⃣ $LFG +36% #BTC…

The ThreeFold Grid is an open-source Internet infrastructure leveraging autonomous cloud and high-performance, permissionless blockchain tech. It is the first full-stack, decentralized, P2P Internet infrastructure in the world with compute, storage & network capacity all-in-one.

Hello to those just finding out about us. Library 📚

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ThreeFold is a big project. So much has been done already. Dig in. Ask. & welcome to the fold.

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Technology has the power to (re)shape our world, so it is crucial that we use it responsibly and with consideration for its impact on society.

RT @PC_rickk: @JakeGagain @threefold_io team behind is solid usecase is solid its a work in progress 2024 1000x Incoming

🤖 Farmerbot Feature Testing Update Here's the latest update from Brandon: "We have been testing the farmerbot the last couple of days. The farmerbot was able to shutdown 2 nodes on its own which is a good thing. But we noticed that shutting down the second node took over 30 minutes which is not what we expected. After some investigation we noticed a small issue that we are fixing right now. Thank you for your patience. We will be continuing our tests once this issue is fixed and keep you up to date." Stay updated about the progress of this feature via this thread.

Join us next week, on Tuesday 21st @ 17:00 CET/11:00 EST, for our Community Call! We will be answering all of your ThreeFold-related questions. If you have something to ask, do so via the link below and they will be covered during our call. 🔗

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You can host your Mastodon instance on the ThreeFold Grid, and easily deploy it via

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Our first rollout of Digital Twin technology is FreeFlow Twin, which offers a suite of experiences on top of the Grid. It is ready for testing in its current beta version at https://t.co/NyDA1HKBYa! Check it out using your TF connect account and let us know what you think👇

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What is a Digital Twin? 👯 It is a user-centric technological platform to build efficient, sovereign and secure digital experiences. Digital Twin technology empowers people and businesses to exchange information and value without any intermediaries.

☝️ Cast your DAO votes ASAP While all farm owners are called to vote for Grid 3.8 to go live on mainnet by February 17th, there is another ongoing DAO vote. From Dylan's post: "This morning we launched a DAO proposal to approve Zonaris as a solution provider on Tfchain mainnet! Voting ends on Wednesday February 22nd at 09:57:06 GMT+1" To all those concerned, please make sure to vote ASAP. You can vote by logging into the dashboard, selecting your farm and clicking on ‘Dao’ under the Portal menu.

Peer-to-peer technology is empowering individuals and communities to take back control of their digital lives.

RT @beiricordi: @threefold_io Love all the info and transparency. Great work guys. Honest works will be blessed.

What is a Digital Twin? 👯 It is a user-centric technological platform to build efficient, sovereign and secure digital experiences. Digital Twin technology empowers people and businesses to exchange information and value without any intermediaries.

What is a 3Node Gateway? 🤔🧵 "A 3node becomes a gateway when a Threefold farmer adds a public IP address to the node itself on the Threefold Dashboard."