Thanks for the update. I'm curious to hear more as this project goes forward. My philosophy on blockchain in its current stage is more cooperative than competitive — that is, I believe there is room for a large number of different protocols operating in a symbiotic manner. "A rising tide carries all ships." I like to see the movement towards digital sovereignty being developed in a wide, distributed network where anyone with the desire and know-how can attempt to build something.
HIVE is capable of interoperating with other chains in exciting ways and I'm happy to hear the Koinos team is keeping the community in mind during the development process. Anyway, I gave my email on Openorchard.io and I'll look forward to following along.
Absolutely! I always believed that there was no such thing as competition when it comes to open source software. There is only more options, more tools, more solutions that everyone can use to build better applications. In fact, I had assumed this was part of the fundamental ethos of open source software development. Interestingly, by introducing money into the equation, blockchains seem to have set this philosophy back a bit.