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AKASH Rises to Divinity Where All are Welcome

In the 19th Century modern time religions began declining and in their place arose spiritualism and many non-traditional Western/European religious beliefs and caused quite the confrontation as the Roman Catholic Church was already battling a rising Evangelical and Protestant belief source. Many years on and the world consists of a broad range of beliefs and religions.

One of the rising beliefs comes from traditional Indian cosmology and one in which has lent it's name to a recently launched block chain, Akash. Depending on the religion the work takes different meaning but all similar in Hindu philosophy it means space, sky or ether source In some beliefs it can also mean where things are written permanently for all eternity.

Now I have no idea of the religious beliefs or origins of Akash but the use of the name for this Multi-Cloud Block Chain where as we know on Block Chains things are permanently stored and can never be removed, so long as the block chain still exists so to will the information it holds. Furthermore, being Multi-Cloud it really is up there in the ether and a place where all things are created and return to. But let's take a deeper dive into AKASH and what Multi-Cloud blockchain is.

What is a Multi-Cloud Blockchain?

To understand what Akash is and what they are attempting to do you first need to understand what a Multi-Cloud Blockchain is. First of all in order to operate a blockchain you need computer power and you need a lot of it for all the tasks associated with operations. From processing transactions and validation, to building things onto it. Quite often no one computer is capable of providing enough computer power to undertake everything that is needed and if it did, then it wouldn't be a decentralised blockchain it would most likely be centralised.

What has emerged recently is the use of cloud computing which is just a nice way of framing a lot of computers all over the place working together to undertake a task or multiple tasks. As the internet is not a physical thing but rather a connection the information collated by all the participants is often stored in a shared place or accessible at any time. This is in effect what is referred to as the "Cloud". In summary, just a bunch of computers, data storage services and machines all working together.

Cloud computing has a significant amount of benefits especially for new and emerging businesses who require a range of online tools which, if they were to go out and purchase the items would cost tens of thousands of dollars. Where for a small fee people or businesses can pay for only what they use source you also would have recently heard of cloud mining or even Amazon lending out it's cloud services to enable people to mine Ethereum or Bitcoin. This creates a pool of miners that have better odds than working on their own. This part is important for a little later below.

The rise of Multi-Cloud services is due to the fact that technology is always changing and what we need today will most likely hold us back tomorrow. So Multi-Clouds are simply put a range of different cloud service provides offering different products, services and resources to support a clients needs.

What does Multi-Cloud mean for Blockchains?

All block chains are pretty much built on their own private cloud servers which is what people call "Networks" to bridge block chains together which has been a focus lately to achieve "Interoperability" API's need to be created with burn/mint functions, wrapped version of tokens need to be minted etc. But with Multi-Cloud computing all this could and will be a thing of the past. There is a really good explanation of it HERE

Sounds great? hold up because to get to this level there are a lot of exploits that will need to be closed off first. With such a large ecosystem there is a lot of ground to cover and hackers have a lot of space to run around in looking for exploits. A clear and easy exploit in this form of computing is for a hacker to establish their own cloud to connect to the main Multi-Cloud. Once connected malicious code can be integrated if the blockchain isn't performing due diligence and it would put every chain in it at risk.

Governance is also a clear issue that arises, if all blockchains become one who operates them and how will the balance of power play out?

Speed... or lack of. If you have a number of users engage the Multi-cloud and it isn't powerful enough to sustain the network congestion things can come to a stalling halt.

but this might be getting a little ahead of ourselves for what is currently being built and is available. Also, to be fully interoperable it would require other networks to provide access to the Multi-Cloud so lets just take a look at Multi-Cloud in AKASH perspective.

AKASH

So you're looking at deploying a dApp or build your own blockchain currently this is an expensive endeavour and cloud computing is dominated by Google, Apple, Amazon etc so to become operational one must approach one of the centralised organisations.

Enter AKASH

AKASH will be the first decentralised open source Multi-Cloud platform that will enable you to deploy dApps seamlessly without the need to recode the entire internet. If you're already operating a node or participating as a validator you'll be able to lease a cloud to continue your work at a cheaper rate. You can also become a cloud provider if you have significant storage and unused capacity just sitting idle and you want to make a few extra bucks you can lease it to ANKASH. Or maybe you want to deploy dApps to existing block chains or even just start one of your own AKASH will provide you with cheaper options source.

As Akash is built on a Multi-Cloud blockchain it will seamlessly and effortlessly connect with any other cloud out there currently which means existing businesses or companies can choose to pivot easily and cost effectively into the realm of blockchain technology.

Akash could potentially reshape blockchains and the way the internet currently operates and it is a project to keep in your sights to see how the market will react.

What are your thoughts on AKASH?

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