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= 4. Business Context =

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== 4.1 Stakeholder Profiles ==

Table 2: Stakeholder Profiles

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Stakeholder
! Major Value
! Attitudes
! Major Interests
! Constraints
|-
| Dissidents &amp; Activists
| Personal liberty
| Protective
| Censorship resistance
| Physical security
|-
| Journalists
| Press freedom
| Investigative
| Secure communications
| Source protection
|-
| High Net Worth Individuals
| Financial privacy
| Cautious
| Economic autonomy
| Regulatory compliance
|-
| Civil Society Members
| Community building
| Supportive
| Alternative institutions
| Learning curve
|-
| Marginalized Groups
| Group autonomy
| Collaborative
| Self-governance
| Resource access
|-
| Developers
| Technical innovation
| Experimental
| Building applications
| Development skills
|-
| Node Operators
| Infrastructure
| Technical
| Network resilience
| Resource costs
|-
| Community Organizers
| Parallel organizing
| Engaged
| Local chapter building
| Time commitment
|-
| Service Providers
| Value delivery
| Entrepreneurial
| Real-world solutions
| Market adoption
|}

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== 4.2 Project Priorities ==

The following priorities are listed in order of importance, with higher priorities taking precedence over lower ones when trade-offs are necessary:

# Free Software Implementation
#* Essential freedoms preserved
#* Source code transparency
#* Community auditability
# Minimal Information Disclosure
#* User control over data sharing
#* Selective disclosure mechanisms
#* Privacy by default
# Byzantine Fault Tolerance
#* Decentralized operation
#* Survival under hostile conditions
#* Graceful security degradation
# Explicit Trust Relationships
#* Clear security boundaries
#* Trust minimization
#* Transparent dependencies
# Compartmentalization
#* Isolation of sensitive data
#* Modular security domains
#* Failure containment
# Network Openness
#* Permissionless participation
#* Protocol extensibility
#* Interoperability standards
# Self-Organization
#* No central administration
#* Autonomous operation
#* Emergent coordination
# Application Diversity
#* Multiple use cases
#* Protocol flexibility
#* Hardware adaptability
# System Scalability
#* Resource efficiency
#* Performance optimization
#* Cost-effectiveness
# Contribution Incentives
#* Resource sharing rewards
#* Network effects
#* Economic sustainability

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== 4.3 Operating Environment ==

Network Environment:
* Hostile state-level adversaries with surveillance capabilities
* National firewalls and censorship infrastructure
* Varying network conditions and connectivity
* Diverse hardware platforms (servers, desktops, mobile devices)

Institutional Environment:
* Competing sovereign claims over cyberspace
* Informal relationships between states and cloud providers
* Extra-legal enforcement through private companies
* Increasing economic capture through CBDCs and Global Financial Integration initiatives
* Transnational nature of modern challenges

Social Environment:
* Need for genuine popular legitimacy
* Importance of real-world value delivery
* Community-driven parallel organizing
* Cultural and linguistic diversity
* Varying levels of technical literacy

Security Environment:
* State-level surveillance and monitoring
* Legal and extra-legal censorship attempts
* Network-level attacks and interference
* Infrastructure vulnerabilities
* Identity and privacy risks