A short introduction of Status history
Status was officially announced to the public on May 29, 2017. Co-founders Carl Bennetts and Jarrad Hope shows a presentation exposing the plans for their Ethereum light client which held at DevCon2, an annual conference for developers on the Ethereum blockchain way back 2016 of September.
Based on the data, nearly 14,000 people around the world downloaded Staus alpha, and 50,000 people are on the current alpha waitlist after the announcement.
(Definition & Benefits of Status)
Status is a mobile Ethereum OS application wherein you can securely transact and send messages thru chat, it also access a world of DApps on the decentralized Web. Ultimately Status is much more than a messenger. It combines asset management with the crypto wallet and also the decentralized applications.
As you can see, Status is different from other messaging applications. It does not requires or any involvement of personal information for you to get started unlike some traditional messengers that requires lots of personal information to sign up. The good thing about this is it doesn't have knowledge about who is contacting whom, nor about the content of your messages. It's only you can view your messages. For you to try to test the Status app, this will run on devices such as iOS 13+ and on Android 7+. No payment is needed to use Status' core features, the best thing about it is it helps to hold the cryptocurrencies ETH (Ethereum) and SNT (Status Network Token).
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If you are thinking about how does Status connect to the blockchain. Status is implemented on top of go - Ethereum, which it connects to the Ethereum network via devp2p. All you need to do is just run the Status App to connect the Ethereum. A few reminder, that only the wallet and browser interact with the Ethereum blockchain and messages are not stored on the blockchain.
For someone who's interested to contribute to the project, they can visit the ambassadors.page to start since Status is an open project, they welcome all contributions either technical or non-technical.
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