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**Introduction**
Computer science and technology has revolutionised every aspect of our lives. We are what we are because of the computer sciences and the development computer engineering, and, as of now the computer research is particularly dominated by three fields - the blockchain, Artificial intelligence and Cloud computing. Blockchain gave the computer world something that was considered impossible before its introduction - *A **secure**, decentralized and transparent network*. It allowed computer scientists and developers to make transparent, decentralized platforms and still conduct transactions in one of the most secure manner possible. Blockchain has had massive criticism in the past but the world today, has realized its potential and now the blockchain is revolutionizing computer sciences for the betterment of the society.
**What is Sparkster?**
Sparkster is an upcoming blockchain based platform that will create the world's first *decentralized cloud* for application development. The cloud computing now is dominated by centralized software giants like Amazon®, Microsoft®, Google® and IBM®, they set prices, make decisions and the customers have no option but to comply with the prices that the centralized companies decide. The Sparkster team believes in a future where decentralized cloud computing will be cheaper than the centralized computing.
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The above graph shows the possible costs of the decentralized cloud computing in comparison to the present day centralized cloud computing. As the Sparkster software grows popular the costs of using the software decreases exponentially.
The Sparkster platform will have its users choose between personal and business account. A personal account will let you make applications and play around the platform but to create an actual working platform and to use an app server the users will have to upgrade to a business account and have their application hosted.
**Features of the platform**
- **Data privacy:** All the data stored on the platform is defragmented to segments and encrypted and distributed across the network such that only you can see your data but to some node, it will be of no meaningful value.
- **Security:** Being on the blockchain, all your data is undoubtedly secure. There is absolutely no way, a node can corrupt such data.
- **Performance:** The transaction latency on the Sparkster platform will be similar to the traditional platforms but the overall throughput, that is, the number of transactions processed per second will me massive.
- **Easy development:** The Sparkster platform will allow users to develop decentralized applications over their platform in almost plain English and an intuitive UI. The users thus, will have absolutely no need to have a technical knowledge in the matter.
o Drag and drop interface for users to create decentralized webApps.
o Define application behaviour and write smart contracts in plain English for the less-than-tech-savvy users.
o Integration option for the application testing in an actual real-world realty
**The Sparkster token and ICO:**
The sparkster platform is powered by the SPARK token. The pre-ICO for SPARK tokens, starts from May 3, 2018, till July 1, 2018
**SPARK Token distribution:**
- Sold during the sale- 69%
- Initial Investors- 20%
- Sparkster team- 10%
- Sparkster's Dreamers charity- 1%
**ICO Details**
Token symbol- SPARK
Price= 1 SPARK=0.15 USD
Hard Cap- $30 million
Soft Cap- $ 5 million
The platform further has around 30% bonus for early investors.
**Conclusion:**
Sparkster platform is a great idea that is set to revolutionize the cloud computing industry but there have been many other applications with similar objectives even big upcoming blockchain giants like the Ethereum and Aeternity. However, the Sparkster platform aims to provide a programing language equivalent to plain English which is a major plus point.
Sparkster will thus be somewhat like the WordPress for the decentralized world. Even if there are many languages and frameworks that can be used to develop websites, WordPress is still used and around 40% of the websites across the globe are WordPress, simply because of its drag and drop UI and a simple interface to make full fledges web platforms.
The Sparkster platform has a tough competition -- Ethereum, which is well set in the market, but given the drag and drop UI and the ability to code in plain English the platform can attract many non-tech-savvy users who, instead of paying money to developers would like to prefer building applications themselves.
**Website** - <https://sparkster.be/index.htm>
**Whitepaper** - <http://bit.ly/SparksterWhitepaperV0_4>
**Telegram** - <https://t.me/SparksterICO>
**ANN** - <https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4350911.0>
**Published by** - dannywhelan
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