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Hi, I’m Mike.
I’m an engineer on the CI Automation team at Dropbox.
Before Dropbox I worked on the carrier platform at Auctane, and the pharmacy and radiology management applications at Epic.
Before Epic, I went to Washington and Lee University and got a degree in Math with a minor in Computer Science.
This weekend I released the initial version of offerpool, an open-source, peer to peer, decentralized Chia Network offer sharing platform. I think it’s the best solution for sharing offer files, and I am happy to make it available for the Chia community. That’s a lot of buzzwords, so I wanted to break down each one and convince you offerpool is worth your time and offer files. Open-source - The source code for offerpool is up on GitHub and released under the Apache License v2. Anyone can audit the code, run their own node and evaluate offers as they are posted, or create an awesome UI for offers without being limited to only the offers uploaded to their site, all for free. Peer to peer - The underlying data structure used to store offers is a eventually consistent append only OrbitDB table which anyone can write to. If an offer is added to one node it will be published to all nodes thanks to OrbitDB and the underlying IPFS swarm. Decentralized - offerpool the application does not rely on offerpool.io or any centralized party to function. I could fall off the face of the earth and the network of nodes would continue to sync with each other without me. When I first heard about offers, I had the idea that I could write a magic arbitrage algorithm that would pull together offers and create spend bundles that printed money. The big problem (besides the magic algorithm) was that I didn’t have access to all available offers. I could have scraped all the known offer sharing sites, but to build the best bundles I would have had to scrape the sites an irresponsible number of times per day, which I didn’t want to do. ...
Chia recently introduced offers, but there’s no good API for getting all the offers currently available. Centralized offers databases are okay, but in the spirit of defi it feels right to have a decentralized backend of offers that isn’t controlled by a single party. Once the backend is in place folks can get creative with how they present the offers to end users. It should be possible to build a decentralized pool of offers, similar to a mempool. ...