Selling data
On /sell you drop your own data: notes, documents, chat or social exports, anything that is text. Everything that identifies the file happens in your browser; the pool receives sentences with vectors, and nothing that names you.
What your browser does
- Reads
.txt,.md,.pdf,.csvand.jsonexports (string values are pulled out of JSON archives). - Scrubs emails, wallet addresses, IBANs, card and phone numbers (on by default), then cuts the text into sentence fragments.
- Embeds every fragment on your own GPU with the pool's model, colours the lanes so neighbours never share one, shuffles, and lists.
- Keeps the consignment id, its secret and your file names in local storage. The pool never sees file names.
What the pool keeps
A consignment: a random id, the SHA-256 of its secret, and its fragments with their lanes and vectors. No wallet, no IP address, no account. One network can list up to 6,000 fragments a day, and a consignment holds up to 2,000.
The check
A random sample of each consignment, 10 % of it with 3 to 24 fragments, goes to the miners as an ordinary job under fresh ids. When it is done, the pool compares the miners' vectors with yours: 90 % of the sample must match at a cosine of 0.99. A consignment that fails is delisted and its unminted earnings are void. Earnings become notes only after the check passes.
When a buyer pays
Buyers pay 0.001 USDG per fragment. 80 % of it is yours: every 5 fragments sold is one note worth 0.004 USDG. A buyer gets one lane of your consignment and at most 12 of its fragments, for life: no buyer ever holds two of your sentences that sat next to each other.
Getting paid
The sell page checks your consignments, mints notes blind as soon as they are earned, and keeps them in the same wallet as mining notes. Withdraw to any address; see Blind notes. You can take a consignment off the market at any time; what was already sold stays sold and its earnings stay yours.
Be careful with what you sell
The scrub catches patterns, not names or secrets written in prose. Read what you drop. Sell only data that is yours to sell.