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With the ongoing growth of the ecosystem around the Epic Blockchain protocol, we created this guide as a reference so people know what to expect from us. We believe in “I hear what you say, but I see what you do,” so don’t take our word for it, notice the design choices embedded in the architecture of our networks:
Our Values
We build systems with the following design goals:
Antifragility / Resilience
Censorship Resistance
Confiscation Resistance
Centralization Resistance
Fractional Reserve Resistance
Immutability
Permissionlessness
Scarcity
Trustlessness
Our Priorities
We build our technology this way because we believe these properties are important:
Liberty
Property
Privacy
Security
Reliability
Practices & Protocols
We ensure these outcomes by the application of proven methods and first-principles thinking:
Bitcoin Standard Emission
21 million coins, quadrennial halvings - protects value of already-existing coins through enforced future scarcity
Community Governance
Fair Launch
High Assurance Engineering
Appropriate Languages
F#
Haskell
Rust
Automated Test Coverage - Cucumber
Documentation
Open Source
Peer Review
Safety Orientation
Simplicity
Iterative Development
Liftoff
Nakamoto Consensus
Open Forums
Regulatory Compatibility - design for compatibility with present & future securities law
Test in Production (on a chaosnet)