XYO BREAKDOWN - Who Is A Sentinel?

If you try a dictionary definition, you'll come up with something like a sentry or a guard.
But to really understand the functions of a sentinel in the XYO Network, let's talk a little about maths

Mathematics. The subject we all love to hate. Well not all of us. Certainly, some freaks of nature among us claim to actually love it. I'm not one of those. I belong to the general population. I never liked mathematics as a child. Nor as an adult. It's one of the few things that growing up doesn't change.

And not that I had a bad teacher, no, I had a great teacher who always tried to come up with ways to make math interesting and I still remember how he (successfully) made me fall in love with Cartesian planes.

(this is what a Cartesian plane looks like.)

The line going up is the y-axis. It goes up and down to infinity. The one sideways is the x-axis. It goes sideways to infinity. You See the beauty of Cartesian planes is that if two inputs are given, one on X and the other on Y axis, then you can find any point in space. For example, if the X input of a point is 4 and the Y input Is 2, then the point will be exactly the same, no matter how many times you try to find it.

This always fascinated me as a kid and our teacher found better ways to make us indulge in it. You see by just giving us coordinates, he made us figure out all the points in the plane, which when connected together usually come up with interesting designs and some really cool art. What really got me was how everyone had the same exact drawing, even though we all worked seperately. This is what it looked like, I found this cool example online, and is called 'cartesian art'

Now why am I going on and on about X and Y coordinates?. Well I came across a project that uses blockchain to turn the entire world into a Cartesian plane. The XYO Network.

How?

Now considering you can triangulate the precise location of a point in a Cartesian plane by simply getting input from X and Y axes, why not implement this on a larger scale, in real life?. If you have not two, but hundreds of sources of location information on an item in space, each giving you details on its own axis, how accurate do you think the location information would be?. Very accurate I suppose, and in real time too!

This is the function of the "sentinels" in the XYO Network, these are verified data collection parties that gather the location heuristics which are the raw location data, (the X and Y inputs for the data). They are literally location witnesses. The data from these sentinels can be confirmed to be true because of the Proof of Origin that is added to the data to ensure its coming from the same source.

Now almost everyone can offer to be a sentinel. All you have to do is be able to have a device that can accurately provide location witness data and proof of origin, that will then be used by someone to solve a problem. You will in turn be rewarded as a sentinel, If the location data you provide is used to solve a problem, with the utility tokens of the XYO Network, the XYO tokens.

Personally, I think this is a cool implementation of one of the only branches of mathematics that I didn't hate. 😄

The whitepaper has more information on this and you can read it here. (https://xyo.network/whitepaper/)

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