The Token Disconnect

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Gnosis Safe

#Cryptocurrencies #Crypto #Cryptocurrency Wallets 50 social mentions

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FileCoin

Helium (https://www.helium.com/); a decentralized mobile internet network operator which enables anyone to host radios and earn tokens for usage, without compromising the connection security of endpoint users. Filecoin (https://filecoin.io/); an incentive layer on top of IPFS to create a decentralized long-term object storage system. Tradelens (https://www.tradelens.com/); in development, AP Moller Maersk's enterprise container logistics/coordination blockchain. Anytime someone says "blockchains don't do anything which centralized systems can't do", I mentally interpret that as someone in 1995 saying "email can't do anything fax machines can't do". In the sense that: its kind of true, in that they accomplish a similar goal of sending a document from one person to another over wire, but it discounts as irrelevant the most critical, foundational thrust of why this new technology is interesting. For email: that it is all-digital. For blockchain: that it is decentralized. In the 90s, the people who still clung to fax machines didn't understand why an all-digital future was important or would matter. They had spent their entire lives living in physicality, working with paper and file cabinets, and it was fine. The fax machine made sense. Email didn't. Sure, centralized systems can do many of these things better. But they do so with the sacrifice of being centralized! Some critics inexplicably gloss over this like its an irrelevant, minor part of the argument. They've spent their entire lives among big tech billion dollar centralized multinational conglomerates, and its been fine. More centralization makes sense; email, I mean, decentralization, doesn't. The point is not to make a better system, in every way; the point is making a functional system that is decentralized, so it can operate in a trustless, geo-distributed, multi-party way.

#Blockchain #Cloud Storage #Decentralized Storage 75 social mentions

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DuckDuckGo

Okay, laugh at that all you want. I see a community of people that raised $41M in a permissionless, open source way. Ethereum gas fees have been higher than ever recently, which does make micro-payments impractical on layer 1, but the ETH community is currently migrating to layer 2s, such as Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, zkSync, and StarkNet, which will make micro-payments feasible again. This is an early, early attempt at collective bidding. The next iteration on something similar will get better and better. The PEOPLE token also shot up 2000% over the past few days, so anyone that held their tokens has more than made up for gas costs as the remaining community members will likely spin up a new DAO for a different purpose. Other similar DAOs, like Pleasr, have been successful at bidding for works of art, such as the unreleased Wu-Tang Album (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pleasrdao+wutang&t=brave&ia=web) and the Edward Snowden Stay Free NFT (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22388548/edward-snowden-nft-freedom-of-the-press-stay-free). Stay tuned, my friend. You might miss the whole revolution if you blink.

#Search Engine #Web Search #Internet Search 1669 social mentions