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+## Circles Overview
+
+Please see all current active circles on our Circles Tool: https://circles.threefold.me/discover

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+```mermaid
+graph TD
+
+    subgraph TF[ThreeFold = The Internet Machine]
+    TFT
+    Grid[Grow Grid]
+    Tech[Use Opensource Technology]
+    NFP[Not For Profit]
+    operate[Operate from PFA]
+    apps2[Apps grow utilization]
+    end    
+
+    subgraph TFtech[TFTech]
+    IP[Tech Ownership = IP, opensource]
+    Exit[Exit in 1 year, also to support PFA]
+    Location[Europe Company]
+    Funding[50m Funding round to support Exit]
+    Tokens[Buy Back and Support TFT]
+    end    
+
+    Exit --> funding
+
+    subgraph PFA[Planet First Accelerator]
+    funding[Funding from TFTech exit, OmniSphere, Investors...]
+    comp[+20 projects]
+    ExitNever[Not For Profit]
+    apps[Create apps for ThreeFold Grid]
+    end    
+
+    apps --> apps2
+
+
+    
+  
+```

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+![](img/strategy.png)
+
+# Strategy
+
+### ThreeFold is Ready to Take Off
+
+?> **Strategy document (Q1, 2022)**, see it [HERE](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wk5U8udNYK2ythRHSZZnUst1dDx2A4fqMc51Ud-jYpk/edit?usp=sharing)
+
+<!-- - [Strategy Headlines](strategy_headlines)
+- [How to get TFT to FLY](question_how_will_tft_become_liquid): needs work
+- [What is Success](freeflow:success) -->

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+# Strategy/Tactics Headlines
+
+Only the top important headlines are listed here.
+
+## make the grid operational
+
+![](img/grid_operational.png)
+
+We are the antidote for the crypto world !!!!
+
+- our TFT will be valuable because of utilization and size of network
+- our technology is usable and has huge potential
+- the market we operate in is huge and real
+- we don't do fake hype, pum/dump or any of the other crypto nonsense
+
+To get to the next phase we need the grid to be operational.
+
+Necessary Requirements
+
+- 100% blockchain based
+- Wisdom Council is our protection mechanism in this phase (NO DAO chec)
+- We dare to be different, but need to be more vocal about it.
+- We have a small team, doing this with the amount of people is hard, but we will and need to manage. We need super focus.
+- Enough farmers online with IP addresses and good enough network and their own operational processes
+
+Importan Deliverable
+
+- Deliver the 1200 nodes we sold
+
+What do we bring life and when
+
+- 2 items
+  - The grid primitives: vmachine, vkube, planetary network, zdb
+  - QSFS usecase (D3 partner)
+- TODO: link to the new wiki with all specs
+- working by end of summer, production end of Sept which is super fast
+
+## Planet First Accelerator
+
+The accelerator main income = twin for life.
+
+- [accelerator](tsc:accelerator_home)
+- passwd: planetfirst
+
+Necessary Requirements
+
+- create a group of fundraisers
+- have good presentation, make sure everyone's pitch is aligned
+- finalize the wiki (is already quit good)
+- make the deals with all related companies
+- check tbe business/finance side of the pitch
+
+Why
+
+- this is huge value creation for ThreeFold and other related projects
+   - accelerator will create the usecases on top
+- otherwise we will loose some incredible projects TAG, ... because they will have to go elsewhere to fund their funding for survival
+- time seems to be now, we have people who want to help and even fund, but needs to become more tangible
+
+Question
+
+- can we do it with resources/time we have
+
+## ThreeFold Emotions 
+
+Today we are the most unknown project ever, its good we have a strong set of values but a minimal hype needs to be created.
+So far we have not been very good at it.
+
+The perception needs to change
+
+- we are not a small too tech project
+- we are the most exciting chance for a new internet
+- we need to be out there...
+
+Necessary Requirements
+
+- execution, execution, execution...
+- a strong executable story, what are we for who, and then repeat, repeat, repeat...
+- demo projects alive (each of them with a wiki is already good enough to start with and just a demo is good)
+  - artheon
+  - treefold world
+  - kutana
+  - threefold chat
+  - aydo
+  - threefold browser (jimber)
+- easier content, better structure in website, wiki, ... 
+- actionable items
+  - install threefold app
+  - refer friends and earn TFT
+- leverage the networks/partners we have
+
+
+Nice To Have Requirements
+
+- partner commitments
+  - D3
+  - OwnCloud
+
+Anti Requirements
+
+- better design (more fancy)
+- more content, more or new blogs, we have enough stories, its already exciting enough
+- yet another complete restructuring of the websites, wikis, ...
+- more decentralization
+- more people
+- more public exchanges (our story need to counter this)
+
+## find funding for the grid = TFT tokens
+
+![](img/tokens_fund.png)
+
+There is absolutely no reason why we can't complete on a fundraise for our tokens
+
+- token marketcap is low
+- value of what we build is huge
+- utilization partners are coming in, and proof is there: quite some MOU
+- the farming model is sound & healthy
+- the scarcity model is sound (staking for discounts)
+
+We need +5m USD asap... this allows us to
+
+- buy TFT back till we are back on 0.12
+- have funds for marketing
+- build a proper team in Dubai
+
+Necessary Requirements
+
+- 2-3 MOU (almost there)
+- more demo usecase life (see above)
+- good funding wiki (like we did for TFTech)
+- good presentation
+- create fundraising team
+- tbd ...
+
+Anti Requirements
+
+- an even nicer website (design)
+- even more content
+- more decentralization for decision taking (at this point lets just get it to work)
+
+
+
+## Digital Twin for Life (or FreeFlow) ???
+
+Questions
+
+- Is this realistic at this point, do we have a team to pull this off?
+
+> TODO need more info
+
+Why
+
+- this could easily be easiest way how to get the TFT to fly, each twin for life costs +-1000 TFT
+
+Necessary Requirements
+
+- website where people can understand 
+  - why web4.0 is needed and relevant
+  - how does the twin work and how different compared to client server
+  - partners who will build on us
+  - team
+  - demos
+  - explain the FFFL  or Twin For Life program

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+|                                             | ThreeFold |    DFinity     |   Filecoin   | Google |
+| ------------------------------------------- | :-------: | :------------: | :----------: | :----: |
+| Usable for all IT workloads                 |     V     | Mainly Compute | Storage only |   V    |
+| Ability to host blockchains and nodes |     V     |       -        |      -       |   V    |
+| Ability to host edge workloads              |     V     |       V        |      -       |   -    |
+| Smart Contract for IT                       |     V     |       -        |      -       |   -    |
+| Unbreakable Storage                         |     V     |       -        |      -       |   -    |
+| Decentralized Infrastructure                |     V     |       V        |      V       |   -    |
+| Planet Positive                             |     V     |       -        |      -       |   +-   |

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+# ThreeFold Vision / Positioning
+
+![](img/header_tf.jpg)
+
+## Our Team
+
+ThreeFold co-founders have worked on Internet Storage and Cloud Technology since the ‘90s, and after many successful exits, they realized that the only way to have a truly sovereign, secure, and energy-efficient Internet, was to start from scratch. So we did. 
+
+5 years down the line, we created a new operating system, a smart contract for IT and a peer-to-peer network that can be scaled anywhere by anyone.
+
+## Why does ThreeFold exist?
+
+### Our Mission
+
+Our mission is to build and expand a data sovereign and planet-positive Internet owned by the people, for the people.
+
+### Our Vision
+
+A planet-positive Internet that provides equal chances to learn, partake and succeed, to everyone, everywhere.
+
+### Our principles/ values/ mantras
+
+- **Sovereignty / Protecting users**
+  - We believe that everyone should own their data, and no one else, not even ThreeFold. 
+  - Our Peer-to-Peer technology allows every user to be data sovereign -  giving them 100% control over their data. 
+- **Sustainability**
+  - We unify our practices, partnerships, and products around a single mission - to heal our planet. By making our technology actionable, we enable a collective approach to have an impact together.
+- **Equality**
+  - We believe that everyone should be given equal chances to learn, partake and succeed. 
+  - Internet access is a human right, and at ThreeFold we commit to scale our technology to new regions to empower the unconnected. 
+
+
+## Brand attributes
+
+- **Purposeful**
+  - ThreeFold exists to help humanity thrive. Our mission is bold and motivates every step we take. We adapt to our evolving environment and passionately strive for excellence.
+- **Empowering**
+  - ThreeFold helps people find themselves and do what they love. We provide support to people and projects that help build a better world, whether they have moonshot visions or down-to-earth ambitions. We aren’t the hero of our story - they are.  
+- **Approachable**
+  - ThreeFold keeps it real. We’re open and honest, avoid upstage corporate language and phony marketing spins. 
+  - We don’t see ourselves as a company, but more like humans helping other humans. So being genuine, friendly and loving comes naturally. 
+
+## What is ThreeFold?
+
+### The People’s Internet
+
+- Powered by ThreeFold’s Open Source Technology, The People’s Internet is the engine for a data sovereign and planet-positive peer-to-peer infrastructure - owned by humanity. 
+- The People’s Internet is formed by individuals and organizations from all around the world that connect Internet capacity to the ThreeFold Grid. 
+- Together, we expand a data sovereign and planet positive Internet infrastructure, owned by the people. 
+
+> Join the movement
+
+- **Say Goodbye to Data Centers**
+  - Farming TFT eliminates the need to build expensive and power-hungry data centers.
+- **A People Run Internet**
+  - TFNodes work together to form a new global Internet infrastructure and provide ‘Proof-of-Capacity’
+  - delivered by all for everyone
+- **Farming is easy**
+  - Any Intel or AMD chip server-like hardware can be turned into a TFNode. 
+  - Buy everywhere in the world.
+
+> The ThreeFold Grid is Live <BR>
+> View the Explorer: [https://explorer.threefold.io/](https://explorer.threefold.io/) 
+
+The ThreeFold Grid is the world’s most advanced peer-to-peer Internet infrastructure. It can scale limitlessly, and brings a more performant, secure and sustainable Internet to host humanity’s data and workloads.
+
+
+### Become a farmer for the People's Internet
+
+- Positioning: 
+  - **Option 1: The new way to provide Internet**
+  - **Option 2: The new way to Mine Crypto**
+
+By connecting a TFNode (server-type hardware) in your home or office, you can empower your city, village, or community with a data sovereign and planet positive Internet infrastructure that can host the data of millions of people and earn income for it, - TFT.
+
+#### 3 levels how TFT can be earned
+
+- Farming = **Proof-of-Capacity**
+  - TFNodes are automatically detected by the operating system, verify the authenticity of the Internet provider and adds it to the network.
+  - Capacity=  compute, storage & network generates TFT for the farmer
+  - The more Internet capacity is connected, the more is earned.
+  - The more IP address avaiable the more is earned as well.
+- Utilization = **proof of utilization**
+- **Reputation**
+  - By being authenticated by other Farmers and providing more accessibility such as connectivity, IPs & location -- reputation and rewards increase. This has not been implemented yet
+
+
+### Use the People's Internet
+
+**Game-Changing Peer-to-Peer technology**
+
+- Many developers and companies are already building on the People’s Internet - the world’s largest and most advanced Peer-to-Peer Internet.
+- Anyone can easily store their data and build applications on an Internet that combines the most secure and powerful technologies in the world.
+
+#### Why
+
+- **An Open Alternative**
+    - The People’s Internet technology stack was built from scratch. 
+    - All its technology is made open source for humanity to expand its potential.
+- **Scalable & Affordable**
+    - On ThreeFold, technologies can scale limitlessly and at a fraction of today’s cost thanks to peer-to-peer technology.
+- **Fully Compatible**
+    - All the solutions built on ThreeFold are compatible with the most used developer tools and protocols.
+    - Any javascript developer can develop on top of Digital Twin
+    - Any system administrator can deploy and workload compatible with Linux
+
+
+#### Main Benefits 
+
+- **Everywhere in the World = Global Coverage**
+    - countless farmers & locations allow you to host your apps
+    - The largest and most distributed peer-to-peer Internet infrastructure in the world, available in 30+ countries and growing fast.
+- **Data Sovereignty**
+    - Connection is ultra-secure and truly private, providing full control over the access rights and location of data and workloads.
+- **Planet Positive**
+    - The Infrastructure is 10x more efficient and the carbon footprint is offseted 3x in the form of carbon credits to regenerate our planet. 
+
+#### Who is already building on us
+
+*   **Empowering Climate Action Education - TAG Story**
+*   **Building the World’s Largest Art database - Artheon Story**
+*   **Enabling a Circular Coffee Economy - Spinn Story**
+*   **Powering Value-Backed Token Economies - Ubuntu Story**
+*   **Building Secure Enterprise Solutions - DigiByte Story**
+*   **Creating the Solution to the Social Dilemma - Digital Twin**
+
+
+See currently active [**Projects**](projects_toc) building on top of us.
+
+
+## Are we different?
+
+!!!wiki.include:tf_comparison_highlevel
+
+>TODO: complete by linking to a document for each part
+
+
+## ThreeFold Tech
+
+**ZeroOS**
+
+> TODO:
+
+**Smart Contract for IT**
+
+Any IT expert can create new smart contracts to automate the deployment and operation of IT workloads. By storing the Smart Contracts in the blockchain database, it also becomes available to other users of the grid. 
+
+The Smart contract for IT brings a peer-to-peer and limitless approach to Internet capacity provisioning. The infrastructure will autonomously orchestrate upon the smart contract.
+
+**Planetary Network**
+
+ThreeFold’s Peer-to-Peer Network was designed to find the shortest possible path between peers and to encrypt the connection end-to-end. It allows for peer-to-peer links like in meshed wireless networks.
+
+Planetary Network works with a web gateway mechanism that allows the exposure of services to the open Internet without allowing incoming connections to keep applications and storage secure at all times.
+
+
+See: [TFTech overview](tf_vision_tech).
+
+
+!!!alias tfvision

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+
+# ThreeFold Technology
+
+> TODO: complete
+
+ThreeFold’s Technology allows anyone to build powerful, cost-effective and energy-efficient peer-to-peer Internet infrastructures in an entirely new paradigm that benefits everyone.
+
+_“The ThreeFold vision is the most advanced we ever came across in the IT industry. They started from scratch on the linux kernel and built the most decentralized, efficient and secure Internet Infrastructure ever. And it can scale limitlessly.”_
+
+**ThreeFold is a better way to build the Internet's infrastructure.**
+
+The People’s Internet is the world’s first peer-to-peer Internet infrastructure that provides an ultra-secure, cost-effective and energy-efficient way for people and companies to store their data and run their applications.
+
+<br/>
+
+## ThreeFold's documentation 
+
+*   **Private & Secure**
+
+    _By using blockchain, autonomous technology and dispersed storage, your data remains unbreakable at all times._
+
+*   **Reliable & Scalable**
+
+    _Our autonomous infrastructure and blockchain database makes it easy for anyone to scale securely and easily._
+
+*   **Energy-Efficient**
+
+    _By eliminating all the unnecessary layers of complexity from the model, we enable up-to 10x energy-savings._
+
+*   **Open Source**
+
+    _ThreeFold commits to open collaboration and making everything we do available to the open-source community._
+
+
+<br/>
+
+## Operating System
+
+ThreeFold’s Zero OS was built from the ground up on a Linux Kernel to have the most secure, lightweight and efficient Internet infrastructure.
+
+It has no shell, local or remote, making it impossible for Farmers to access data on a hardware level. Files are deduped and fingerprinted, meaning no more data duplication and minimal hacking footprint.
+
+> [Read More](threefold:zos)
+
+<br/>
+
+## Proof of Capacity
+
+Proof-of-Capacity (PoC) is a unique algorithm that detects the Internet capacity available on the Threefold Grid, verifies the authenticity of the connection and stores it in the blockchain database.
+
+The PoC records CPU, RAM, SSD/HDD to define the total capacity of the grid before driving the minting consensus and allowing minting to happen.
+
+> Read More (to be added)

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+# The ThreeFold Token
+
+![](img/tft.png)
+
+## The New Internet Economy
+
+The People’s Internet creates an entirely new P2P Internet and Cloud economy that is owned by all of us and makes the traditional cloud model of building data centers obsolete.
+
+> [CoinMarketCap/CoinGecko](https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/threefold-token)
+
+## Earn TFT
+
+TFT is earned when TFNodes provide Internet capacity and keep it connected to the People’s Internet to store data and run workloads over the grid. Every month, Farmers are rewarded according to the proof-of-capacity.
+
+## Use TFT
+
+TFT is used by people and companies to store their files and run their applications on the grid. When using ThreeFold, data can be tied to a single-user or consensus, and can be retrieved only via smart_contract_it .
+
+## What is TFT?
+
+TFT represents a unit of Internet capacity on the People’s Internet. It allows people and companies to reserve and use Internet capacity on the Threefold Grid without any intermediaries. 
+
+To buy TFT, users can go to exchanges or accredited Farmers. Like most digital currencies, TFT is transferable to any other compatible wallet. 
+
+> [How to Buy & Sell TFT](threefold:how_to_buy) 
+
+## TFT Distribution
+
+Year 1 breakdown (launched March 2020)
+
+*   Community and Team ( %)
+*   Farming Infrastructure ( %)
+*   ThreeFold Foundation ( %)
+*   Investors to the project ( %)
+
+> [TFT Overview](threefold:token_overview)
+
+**TFT distribution over time**
+
+The distribution of TFT will evolve over time to align with the vision of the Threefold Foundation and the needs of the grid.
+
+In the early days, a higher proportion of TFT was allocated to Farmers to incentivize the growth of the ThreeFold Grid and empower the Foundation. 
+
+As the grid grows, Farmers will earn less for expanding the infrastructure and more from utilization… 
+
+When using TFT, 50% of the transaction goes to Solution Providers and Sales Channels, 10% to the ThreeFold Foundation, 5% to staking pool and the rest is burnt to ensure scarcity and deflation.
+
+**Maximum Supply of 4B TFT**
+
+TFT supply comes from farming with compatible TFNodes that both farm TFT and provide Internet capacity for people and companies.