On the first day of EOS sidechain launch, the old cat confronts the team and nodes behind it

The star public chain EOS, which ushered in the DApp explosion in 2018, began to slow down at the end of the year due to the aggressiveness of its competitor "Tron".

Perhaps seeing the "powerlessness" of the EOS main chain, a recent project called "Born for DApp"BOS(Business Operating System)The new side chain project of EOS is quite popular in the EOS community.

Although it was only launched on January 17, BOS obviously has its own traffic. The ecological partners on its official website include many well-known EOS nodes, wallets, mining pools and DApp development teams. The BOS DApp zone has also followed up in time.

Adding to its popularity is today (January 18) Laomao posted on its official accountA call to action.

Lao Mao pointed out that he questioned BOS for three reasons: one is that the token distribution method introduced by the official website seems to be incompatible with decentralization; , EOS has undergone major upgrades since then, and there are risks in simultaneous transplantation.

Then, he believes that there may be three reasons why the initiator of BOS is supported by many EOS election nodes: 1. The bear market has been too long, and the income of many BPs has dropped sharply, so they need to hold together to keep warm; The bribery node alliance built by nodes has formed a community of interests; 3. The development of EOSIO is too slow, and some technical BPs cannot bear it, so they test the water on BOS

Finally, Laomao also made it clear that "he does not think that a project made by a technical team and sponsor who dare not show up can really change the world", and that he and the EOSLaoMao node will not participate in any link of BOS at all.

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What is BOS?

In fact, the solution of side chain is not created by EOS. The first side chain on the blockchain is considered to be the side chain technology BTC-Relay launched by the ConsenSys team that can connect Ethereum and Bitcoin networks in a secure decentralized form, in order to solve the problem of Bitcoin block capacity , There are also teams such as blockstream launching the side chain Liquid.

But why are there so many BOS controversies? It is necessary to disassemble the white paper of BOS:

In the technical white paper of BOS, the pain points of the current EOS are pointed out: the limitation of the resource model (CPU, RAM) leads to high costs for users and developers; the key technology IBC is required to achieve millions of TPS in EOS , has not been promoted; in addition, the current Pipeline-DPOS consensus mechanism is not perfect enough, and fast payment can only focus on small transfers.

In this regard, BOS pointed out: For the consensus algorithm problem, BOS will use PBFT (Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance[2]) to replace Pipelined BFT, so that BP can confirm it in real time, and shorten the credible time of a transaction from minutes to seconds class. In addition, a lightning node will also be set up, similar to the lightning network, transactions on this node are completed in a local network and part of the balance needs to be locked.

Regarding cross-chain, BOS announced that it will adopt "inter-chain communication" as a solution to achieve high concurrency. In addition to mutual anchoring with EOS, another vision of BOS is that through this trusted channel, BTC and ETH can be exchanged on BOS. Easy cross-chain circulation.

In response to the shortage of EOS CPU resources and the need to pay for the main network account, BOS also proposed a subsidy plan, including providing a certain amount of free CPU and free accounts.

In addition, BOS also proposed a series of solutions, including more secure random number solutions, oracles, node configuration on-chain, more plugins and other comprehensive adjustment solutions.

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Talk to each other?

Facing Lao Mao's questioning, BOS officials did not respond. Instead, the "First Letter from BOSCORE" was published this afternoon. The article congratulated the release of the BOS mainnet and mentioned: "BOS has realized contract interaction and asset transfer between chains, laying the foundation for standardized cross-chain protocols." With a new resource model, BOS has changed the problems of high access threshold for users, difficult asset conversion, expensive resources, etc., and it is even expected to shorten the confirmation of irreversible blocks to 1/50 of the original. To choke" means.

In response to this controversy, the reporter interviewed Sun Yushi, the co-founder of EOS Beijing, the ecological partner of BOS. Sun Yushi believes that actively exploring side chains is a beneficial thing for the ecology, and the future EOS is likely to be a multi-chain ecology.

Regarding the question of whether there will be a danger of splitting the community, Sun Yushi said: "As long as there is two-way communication with the main chain, then this problem does not exist. B1's definition of EOS is actually a commercial system, that is, To B's System, To C matters can be handed over to DApp, handed over to the side chain, there is no contradiction. If the side chain is equivalent to a secondary distributor or a brokerage, its traffic is for the top-level service, but it seems that the top-level No more frequent exposure and direct contact with the C-end.”

Hello EOS Zi Cen also gave different opinions. He said: "The EOS main network has formed an indescribable, relatively stable, and subtle interest pattern, game and check and balance. Try to promote changes in the bear market and forcibly break the existing The consequences may be disastrous. Building a sidechain ecosystem, such as BOS, is the safest, or even the only safe optimization path.”

"Fighting gods", OracleChain founder Lao Lang said about this controversy. At present, the BOS main network has just been launched, and it seems too early to stand in line too early, but the old cat concluded that "whether BOS can bring value to the development of EOS is a question that needs to be considered by every BP. ’ Still food for thought. However, whether it is the first referendum that started in January this year, or the BOS sidechain incident this time, "EOS, which is plagued by chronic diseases, seems to be experiencing a new undercurrent.