DigiByte

2017 - 2035 Roadmap

By
Jared Tate
DigiByte Founder

Note: This document is intended to be a living first draft to get further
input from the DigiByte community at large and to lay a detailed
framework for the future of DGB.

It is our pleasure to announce DigiByte as of block 3,764,559 is now
officially three years old and is one of the longest, if not the longest
blockchains in the world! DigiBytes life began on January 10th, 2014
when the headline "USA Today: 10/Jan/2014, Target: Data stolen from
up to 110M customers" was hashed into the Genesis block. Three years
later this headline still holds as much importance as ever with almost
daily security breaches of companies continuing to occur across the
globe. The cryptocurrency and blockchain world has changed
dramatically since January 2014. And with that DigiByte will continue to
grow, adapt and innovate moving into the 2020s. We would like to
sincerely thank everyone who has been around and supported DGB over
the past three years! It has been an amazing journey that is now just
really getting started. We invite everyone to begin contributing in a
variety ways to help make DigiByte a continued success. Because
without all of you in over 82 + countries DigiByte would not be possible.

DigiByte Purpose: To make DigiByte the fastest, most secure & scalable
blockchain in the world well in to the 2030's driven by real world utility
and successful use cases.

DigiByte Vision: DigiByte will continue growing into a multi billion-dollar
worldwide financial, cyber security and data protection public
blockchain with security incentivized by the DigiByte cryptocurrency.

Core Areas of Focus
Security
Security will remain our #1 area of focus well into the future. By
security we mean the absolute integrity of the DigiByte
blockchain, transactions and real world applications such as Digi-
ID, Digi-2FA and more. We will continue demonstrating to the
 broader global business community the cyber security benefits
the DigiByte blockchain offers to their existing businesses.
Community
Without the global DigiByte community DGB would not be able to
survive. It is absolutely essential to continue growing the DigiByte
community through projects such as GitHub, Digis4commits and
platforms such as DigiByte Gaming, DigiByte Hub and more.
Transparency
DigiByte will always remain a completely public, decentralized and
open source project. This allows for the greatest transparency
and long-term viability for any global project. This provides
companies, countries and developers with a stable blockchain to
use as a base layer for their applications, side chains and more.
Efficiency
We will continue or emphasis on making DigiByte as efficient as
possible through proven, secure protocol upgrades. We will also
continue being ambassadors to the traditional business
community by showing them the efficiency improvements in their
own businesses they can achieve by utilizing the benefits of the
DigiByte blockchain.

Speed & Scalability
DigiByte scalability will continue to be improved, tested and
refined to maintain DGBs existing speed and scalability well into
when the last DigiBytes are minted in the year 2035.

DigiByte Fun Facts 2017

- DigiByte is now the longest public blockchain in existence and
is a pioneer to all blockchains for speed & scalability
- DigiByte has 5 independent mining algorithms for greater
decentralization and security
- DigiByte has 15 Second Blocks
- DigiByte can currently handle 300 TPS and will match Visa by
2021
- DigiByte is much more resistant to a 51% attack than Bitcoin
- DigiByte pioneered DigiShield & MultiShield now used by
numerous blockchains
- DigiByte is used in over 82+ countries

 DigiByte Projects Underway
Digis4Commits
It is our pleasure to introduce Digi4Commits to the DigiByte
community. In an effort to further DigiByte and take our
blockchain technology to the next level we realize this cannot be
accomplish by any one person alone. DigiByte is surrounded by an
amazing group of people who are willing to help DigiByte grow to
the next level. Digis4commits provides central hub for the
community to organize and crowd fund projects. Check it out
here: https://digis4commits.com/

DigiByte Roundtable
Beginning later this evening we will conduct the first DigiByte
Roundtable meeting of the community on Google Hangouts. We
will begin conducting DigiByte Roundtables on at least a bi-weekly
level where we discuss all things DigiByte as well as blockchain
related topics. We would like to invite DigiByte and other
blockchain enthusiast to submit questions and topics they would
like to see discussed during the course of these roundtable
discussions.

DigiByte.co Website
We will be making many updates to the DigiByte website over the
next several months. We would like to invite members of the
community to help us make guides, guest posts, updates and
more. If you have suggestions and would like to get involved
please let us know.

DigiByte Foundation
We would like to set up a community foundation in 2017. As
DigiByte grows it has become apparent we can use a foundation
with set roles and responsibilities to help promote the global use
of DigiByte. We would like to start an active discussion on the best
possible location to set the foundation up. Some suggestions
have been the US, Switzerland, The Netherlands and other
countries. We happily invite the community to post your
suggestions on the best way to do this and for someone to step
forward to help make it happen.

DiguSign
 Trade Applications
Real-estate Applications
Insurance Applications
IOT Applications
Security Applications

Digi-ID
Digi-ID is an identity system for securing and logging into websites
we have been testing in a variety of ways for the past few months.
The idea is simple, if you have a DigiByte wallet it should be able
to be used to manage logins and other services on a variety of
web applications in a decentralized manner.

Digi-2FA
Digi-2FA is a part of Digi-ID that allows a user to login to a website
simply using their DigiByte address and private keys. A manual
version of this is already live on the DigiByte Gaming website and
can be used with the core wallet. A more advanced and
streamlined version of this is currently under development for the
DigiByte Gaming Wallet.

DigiByte Gaming
DigiByte Gaming has now reached over 40,000 League of Legends
and CS:GO gamers. This has brought a whole new generation of
people into the world of cryptocurrencies. Throughout 2017 we
plan on putting on several more events and promotions as well as
updating the DigiByte Gaming wallet with new features for
gamers. We would like for DigiByte to become the go to
cryptocurrency for millennial gamers. We invite to the community
to give us any suggestions or feedback on this projects. We are
actively seeking developers to work on gaming projects as well.

DigiHash
DigiHash is has been the default developers pool for a couple
years now. We are looking for developers to help update
DigiHash with integration into a new easy miner for gamers.

DigiExplorer
Throughout 2017 we would like to expand the blockchain
analytics and information available through DigiExplorer. This
 includes more specific details on each algorithm as well as metrics
to help improve future releases of the DigiByte protocol. If you
are a developer who would like to help with these improvements
let us know or create a project on Digis4Commits.

DigiByte Gaming Wallet
The DigiByte Gaming wallet has become the easiest wallet for a
new DGB user to use. We have been working on several new
features to the wallet including Digi-ID. Digi-ID allows a user to
log in to websites such as DigiByte Gaming and in the future
DiguSign. Think of this as blockchain 2fa.

Microsoft Partnership
Microsoft has been very generous to DigiByte in 2016 with the
addition of DigiByte templates to Azure as well as nominating
DigiByte Holdings of Hong Kong to their Biz Spark Plus program.
This includes $120,000 USD of Azure credits. If you have an idea
for an innovative DigiByte platform let us know and we can help
get you some server space.

Trade Partnerships
DGB Holdings of Hong Kong has partnered with several trade
companies to begin rolling out the DiguSign platform for beta
testing through Q1 & Q2 of 2017. More information will become
available as the year continues.

Future Partnerships
Throughout 2017 we will be actively seeking corporate
partnerships to increase the use of the DigiByte blockchain. If you
have any suggestions or know any interested parties please get in
touch with us. Please also note we would like to actively
encourage the creation of other companies that are built on top
of creating applications on top of the DigiByte blockchain. We
would like to see a DigiByte consortium of companies form by the
end of 2017 beginning of 2018.

DigiStats
DigiStats is a community driven project led by Esotercizm and
Alaniz to provide several advanced statistics on the DigiByte
network. This project also includes a live node map of the global
 DigiByte network. To contribute to this project check out the
Digis4Commits page for Digistats.


Core Protocol Improvements & Thoughts

4.1.3 Core Release
The next major release of DigiByte will be version 4.1.3. This
version will bring DigiByte on to par with the latest version of
Bitcoin core 0.13. This release will include several speed and
scalability improvements as well as other security improvements
that will allow DigiByte to be a faster more secure blockchain.

Note: We had originally anticipated a beta release by the third
anniversary but do to complications with our multi-algo
implementation we were not able to get a fully stable version
developed. We would like to invite the community to participate
in the 4.1.3 development and release over the next few months.
We also have recently put the majority of our core development
resources into the new DiguSign platform and are actively looking
for other developers to assist with 4.1.3 testing.

Potential Algo Swap
We would like to begin a community discussion on a potential
future algo swap of 1 of the 5 or more DigiByte algorithms. We
feel this decision should be based on hard data to support greater
decentralized mining. We would love to get feedback from the
community on some of the options that exist for this future swap.
We also would like to get some more solid statistics built into
DigiExplorer on each mining algo throughout 2017. If anyone has
some suggestions here please reach out or post on the
DigiExplorer Github repo.

Side-Chains, Sub-Chains & More
As the DigiByte blockchain grows in global user adoption the need
will probably arise for private chains to be anchored into the
public DigiByte chain for advanced scalability. There are several
possible blueprints for how to do this. We also like the concept of
a sub chain that allows for lower priority transactions such as
 documents and other administrative transactions. We will be
hosting a future Digi Roundtable on this discussion.

SegWit Adoption
We are exploring the possibilities of integrating SegWit into the
DigiByte blockchain for enhanced scalability. However we are not
yet convinced this is the appropriate path for DigiByte to take for
long term scalability to remain a truly secure, decentralized
blockchain. We welcome the communities input and suggestions
on this issue.

Smart Contracts
The blockchain buzzword of 2016 was by far the word smart
contract.
However it became quickly apparent most companies and
businesses we spoke with as well as developers all seem to have
different definitions as to what exactly a smart contract is. We
believe with the released of core 4.1.3 and check time lock verify
it will be possible to execute rigid smart contracts on the
DigiByte blockchain. We welcome the communitys input on this
issue.
Community Projects
DigiBot
The DigiByte Official Telegram chat has grown rapidly and has now
effectively replaced the BitcoinTalk thread as the main community
hub. Thanks to the hard work of Alaniz the Digibot has gone along
way to help enhance the experience of the chat. Make sure to
check out the Telegram chat and use the DigiBot.

Android SPV Wallet
We would like to find a new maintainer for the core Android SPV
Wallet. If anyone is interested in this please contact us and start a
Digis4Commit project. The wallet still works but can be updated
with the latest versions of bitcoinj.

iOS SPV Wallet
Regrettably Apple made the decision to remove the DigiByte iOS
wallet from the iTunes store a few months back as well as the
majority of all other cryptocurrency wallets. We would like to get
it back on the store as soon as possible. If anyone has any
 suggestions on how we might be able to make this happen please
let us all know. Apple refused to tell us why they removed the
wallet and rejected all our appeals to keep it on the store.

Electrum Wallet
We would like to thank Protonn and Esotercizm for all the hard
work getting the electrum server up again and running along with
the wallet. Please reference Digis4Commits to help this project
continue its development.

Mining Pools
We would like to thank all the mining pool providers who have
kept their DGB pools going over the past three years. We would
like to invite all other who are interested in running a DigiByte
mining pool to do so. We will continue our emphasis on multi-
algo, multi-device and multi-hardware mining to encourage a
broader, more decentralized mining community. Our vision is to
always allow your average PC gamer to be able to mine & earn
DGB.

Mine That Digi
Mine That Digi is a project dedicated to bringing DigiByte to the
mine craft community. Check out Digis 4 Commits to find out
more about this platform.

Future Projects & Ideas For Community Collaboration

Easy Miner v2.0
We would like to get the community involved to continue the
development of the DigiByte Easy Miner. By creating an easy to
use multi-algo miner that your average desktop gamer can
download and install we will be able to continue brining many
new people into the DigiByte ecosystem while at the same time
helping to further secure the DGB blockchain. We have explored
numerous ideas and options and believe that the easy miner can
be built on top of the Electron stack fairly easily.

Digi AI
With the ongoing emergence of new open source artificial
intelligence libraries we see a future where blockchain tech meets
 AI. We would like to invite the community to begin a discussion
on what this might look at. Some ideas we are exploring include
smart transaction routing between nodes, network automated
block sizing, smart adaptive mining algorithms and more. Look for
more DigiByte Roundtable discussions on this in the future.

Digi DNS
As recently witnessed the current global DNS system is fraught
with security vulnerabilities and inefficiencies. We are 100%
confident blockchains such as DigiByte and their related
applications can be applied to create a much more secure internet
experience for users across the globe. The blueprint for this and
how it can be applied is found with the original Namecoin
blockchain and its implementation for a blockchain based domain
system.

Digi SSL
Fundamentally a basic DGB transaction from one party to another
has all the basic security requirements for establishing a secure
method of encrypted communications. We believe further
development of the DigiMan Browser or potential collaboration
with the open source Brave browser project could allow for a
more secure SSL system built on top of DigiByte that does not rely
on the shortcomings of the root certificate authority system.

DigiMan Browser
The DigiMan Browser is a fork of the open source brave browser
project. The purpose of the DigiMan Browser is to provide a much
more secure browsing experience for users that incorporates a
DigiByte Wallet, Digi-ID, Digi-2FA and additional security
enhancements and privacy settings. We believe the DigiMan
Browser will also allow for a new era of the Internet attention
Economy where users are directly rewarded in DigiBytes by ad
providers for looking at their advertisements, if they so chose.

DigiMessenger
The DigiByte blockchain allows for the foundation of a unique
secure messaging platform to be built. This platform can be
decentralized, anonymous and highly secure and resistant to
censorship and attacks. We are looking for members of the