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End Users<br />

As end users join the SAFE network anonymously, they will start a vault (a data storage<br />

and management location). This vault will add itself automatically to the network and start<br />

providing resources. These vaults require no setup and administration, they are a simple<br />

download and install. The network is designed to self-manage these resources and reward<br />

these 'farmers'(vault owners) accordingly in a random fashion, uniformly distributed across<br />

the network, thereby securing the network’s data.<br />

The earning speed is based on the storage space contributed to and verified by the<br />

network. For details of the calculation, please see Appendix ‘Token System on MaidSafe<br />

Network’. Note the developer and crowd sale lines are obscured by the IP pool.<br />

If people were to try and game the system by providing farmers to store data and then<br />

switch them off, they will simply remove their ability to earn. At some time in the future it is<br />

envisaged the network will be able to detect such data and remove it from the network. In

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