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Let's learn about via these 77 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the to find the most read stories about any technology. Decentralized Web /Learn Repo 1. dWeb Goes Mainstream: 7 Websites that are Better on the Blockchain You can now update your settings in Chrome or Firefox to connect to blockchain domains. Check out these seven examples to use for your decentralized websites. 2. Essential Guide to Building a Decentralized eCommerce Platform with React and Solidity (Part 1) The demand for Web3.0 solutions is at an all-time high, but there isn't enough material available to usher in the army of developers required to fill the job op 3. The Illusion of Decentralization Back in the 1990’s, then-chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan used the phrase “irrational exuberance” to describe the rapid and relentless rise of stock markets amidst a preponderance of data that should have tempered market mania. Setting aside Greenspan’s role in stimulating such “irrational exuberance” via interest rate driven monetary policy, it seems as though his phrase is ripe for recycling when looking at the current fever for “decentralization”; particularly, decentralization as it would apply to blockchain, Web 3.0, and cryptocurrencies. Can blockchain as a foundation of Web 3.0 really be decentralized? 4. A Man Who Fell To Earth: Decentralized Software is Here to Stay The Man Who Fell To Earth : The future of human curiosity is decentralized and open source. 5. Browsers Are the Gatekeepers of The Decentralized Web The internet that most of the world sees is essentially identical. It’s called DNS, and most people understand this system to be the "legitimate" internet. This system is run by ICANN, a non-profit charged with determining who has the right to launch a domain extension (like a .com). 6. An Introduction to Skynet's Homescreen for Managing DeFi and DWeb Apps Interview David Vorick CEO of Skynet Labs about trends, pitfalls, why it’s important to own the data and how Homescreen's going to change the way we use the Web 7. Decentralized Web (DeWeb Tokens) 101 – The next big thing? Over the last years, but especially the last months, DeFi (Decentralized Finance) emerged to a popular and highly hyped niche within the crypto space. 8. 4 Entrepreneurs are Betting Big on Polkadot: Meet Their Projects Touted by some as the “Ethereum Killer”, Polkadot has over 250 projects building on it’s ever-growing ecosystem 9. The Main Challenges of Decentralization Decentralization stands in opposition to centralization and is currently rapidly breaking into the world order of the modern world. 10. The Decentralization Era [Part 1]: The History of Decentralization Why decentralization will allow a more fair and decent allocation of wealth, information, and opportunities. 11. 4 Reasons Why Artists Should Create Art NFTs Many artists hesitate to create NFTs, here's why they should. 12. Decentralized Digital Identity: Is it the Future of the Web? Why is Decentralized Digital Identity the future of the web? Blockchain-based identity 13. 3.6 Million Websites Went Offline Due To a Fire: Decentralization Prevents That Recently, the cloud computing company and hosting provider OVH has had  a fire that caused nearly 3.6 million websites to go offline. Some of the websites effected was a government site for the French government, and even a cryptocurrency exchange. According to Reuters, many of those sites were told to, "activate their disaster recovery plans following the blaze." 14. Decentralized Media in the Web3 Era You will discover how Web 3 can improve the future for media users and media buyers within 3 minutes. 15. Democratic Internet: Decentralized Web Gives More Control to Users Picture this:  The internet is no longer neutral. It has been taken over by large corporations who can now control what we see and what we don't on social media 16. Explaining Decentralized Storage to Your Grandma Have you ever been visiting your grandparents and tried to explain tech concepts, like decentralized storage? 17. Lonero Needs the Hackernoon Community's Help Hello World! It is about time, time that we asked you guys for help! I'm not talking about e-begging. What I'm talking about is that we want to stage a new site on StackOverFlow, but nobody knows about our proposal yet! 18. IPFS – The New Internet's Protocol IPFS can be seen as a new decentralized Internet infrastructure on which various applications can be built in a secure & resilient way. 19. A Promising Future with More Opportunities: Decentralized Internet Interview with Kushagra This interview is part of the #Decentralized-Internet writing contest! 20. Clarion: A Project for Freedom of Expression Let's dig in this new decentralized project about social media. 21. Inery Aims to Eliminate Entry Barriers to Web3, Blockchain Web3 Infrastructure is seriously lacking in one department - data systems. Inery addresses the issues of centralized data management 22. 'Decentralization Fosters Group Cohesion': Interview with Devendra Singh Khati Decentralized internet interview with Devendra Singh Khati. 23. Outside The Bitcoin Echo Chamber: Here's Why I'm Not Stacking Sats I spent a year and $10,000 on Bitcoin so you don't have to before I stopped.
Here’s what I learned about buying crypto and Bitcoin living up to the hype. 24. SHACAL-2: A Poem Like density launch, bandwidth's ascent steps past the satellite's single geostationary hall, the stage's third and one of disintegrated constellations... 25. #Decentralized-Internet Writing Competition 2021: November Results Announced! Hey Hackers! This is the second last announcement of the HackerNoon Decentralized Internet Contest, 2021. 26. #Decentralized-Internet Writing Contest: May/June Results Announced Hackers rejoice! Here we are again with the #Decentralized-Internet writing contest winners for the month of May and June! 27. Importance of a Gratitude Journal Gratitude works its magic by serving as an antidote to negative emotions. It’s like white blood cells for the soul, protecting us from cynicism, entitlement, anger, and resignation. — Arianna Huffington, Thrive. 28. Decentralized Web Writing Competition 2022: January Results Announced! Welcome to another announcement of the HackerNoon Decentralized Web Writing Contest! 29. Major Updates and Going over Lonero's Goals for 2021 A summary of some of Lonero's biggest updates during 2020 and plans for 2021 regarding progress. 30. What is the Difference Between Web2 vs Web3 In this article, we will discuss the major differences in Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. 31. Here’s Everything That Web2 Developers Need to Know About Web3 Web3, by definition, is a decentralized online ecosystem built on the blockchain intended to bring about a new generation of networked societies and commerce. 32. What Does a Decentralized VPN Look Like? As far as the Internet is concerned one of the most significant hot-button issues has got to be the issue of privacy and restrictions. Currently, everyone seems to have an opinion over the prospect of providing restrictions and keeping other people from having access to some portions of the Internet-technology which, ideally, should have been for us all. 33. How Blockchain Technology Can Improve DevOps Practices in Web3 Current DevOps tools and practices can help develop applications on top of blockchains, and a more mature blockchain adoption can improve the DevOps practices. 34. Deeper Network's Connect And IDO Launch: the Latest News Deeper Network, which is building the decentralized internet infrastructure for the Web 3.0, has broken Indiegogo records by raising over $1 million to become the most successful blockchain project in the history of the crowdfunding platform. 35. What Good is a Metaverse in Which You Do Not Truly Own Your Assets? If you can tokenize a deed of ownership, why not tokenize documentation like driver licenses, passports, insurance policies, memberships, etc? 36. DeFi Isn’t the Only Place Where Innovations Are Happening DeFi has been the leading narrative in the crypto space in 2020 with its pulsating innovation and stellar growth. Not only has the entire concept of financial services been turned on its head but we've also witnessed some of the speediest development in tech of all time. In the savage unforgiving decentralized landscape, competition is fierce and protocols are required to iterate almost daily to survive. 37. Eliminating Polarization in Web3 A decentralized Sybil-resistant social media network could soothe the polarization issue and clarify how the community truly thinks and feels 38. Is Building a Real-Time Blockchain Infrastructure Possible? Blockchain has gained popularity to remain on the tongue-tips of the majority. However, will this innovation change the manner in which we execute later on? 39. Why The Metaverse Is Already Broken (And How To Fix It — Chapter Two) Let's dive straight into Chapter Two of why the metaverse is broken and let's find out if we can fix it! 40. DeData Studios: Helping Users Take Back Control of Their Data Gone are the days when big tech companies like Meta decide when and how to monetize your personal information. Or are they? 41. The Personal Platform: The Next Big Thing? Momentous technologies often look useless. Especially information-related technologies. Why did we need the printing press, when most people were illiterate? Plus, the priest could already read aloud from a hand-copied Bible. Why did we need the personal computer, when people already had filing cabinets, type-writers, and TVs? Computers were for wealthy corporations. 42. An Introduction to Web5: A New Decentralized Web Venture Web3 Vs Web5 | Web3 To Web5 Evolution: Web5 Development the New Decentralized Web Venture. Web5 or Web3 which is better? 43. Why the Decentralisation of Data Is Crucial in Today's World Decentralizing data management is the process of collecting, storing, organizing, retrieving, and processing data. 44. What Does 2020 Hold for Decentralized Social Networks? The race for the next decentralized social network has officially begun, following this tweet from Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey. 45. AllianceBlock is Launching On-Chain  Trustless Identity Verification Alliance Block's Trustless Identity Verification (TIDV) addresses the issue of trustless distribution of authenticated data. 46. List of Awesome Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Projects I probably don’t need to introduce you to Decentralized Finance (DeFi) or Open Finance. DeFi is here to change traditional finance, creating an open ecosystem of financial products. It’s here to stay. 47. TheOoL DAO: Web3 Darknet The Oracle of Liberty DAO or TheOoL.net is a super secure, censorship resistant and distributed information ecosystem. 48. The Digital Identity Phantom Menace Is decentralization of your digital identity possible, or is it yet another delusion being promoted by Web 3.0 cheerleaders? 49. #Decentralized-Intenet Writing Contest: December Results Announced With the December announcement, HackerNoon & Everscale bring you a surprise gift. We are extending the decentralized internet writing contest for 3  months. 50. Where You Can Go To Create Value And Earn Money With The Blockchain There are websites you can use to build your reputation and stack cryptocurrency by working on Blockchain projects both as a bounty hunter or contributor. 51. How To Decentralize Virtual Communities? The widespread use of social media has changed the way we communicate, however, not everyone thinks these changes are positive. For example, the lack of strict moderation of social media content has contributed to the spread of misinformation during the COVID-19 outbreak.Even before COVID-19, many users were unsatisfied of how social media platforms were addressing disinformation, censorship, privacy, political neutrality, user control, and malicious activity. Decentralized social networks and communities are more flexible than centralized ones, but they provide more opportunities for the disadvantages that are suppressed in centralized communities. This is the small paradox of decentralized communities. 52. "Technology is much more advanced than that of 10-year-old blockchains," says Mr. Grygoriy Sytenko Grygoriy Sytenko, the CEO of crypto wallet OWNR Wallet, gives an insider’s view on what’s going on in the niche of Decentralized Finance. 53. Everything You Don’t Know About the Evolution of Web: Web1.0 to Web3.0 From web 1.0 through 2.0, things are about to turn around as a transition into the third phase of the web is unfolding. 54. GraphQL, the Universal Query Protocol, and the Free TON Blockchain What is the universal query protocol GraphQL  and its application in modern blockchain platforms on the example of Free TON 55. "DApps!" A New Buzzword, or Here to Stay for Good? For the last few months, there’s been a new hot topic in crypto circles: DApps!  Even as someone with a beginner’s understanding of blockchains, cryptocurrencies and its related environments, I hadn’t heard of the term ‘DApp’ until quite recently. But ever since, I’ve been deeply intrigued by them and their potential to change the way we perceive and interact with apps. 56. Social Media Networks are Coming to the Blockchain Learn what decentralized social media networks mean, how they work, and what benefits they offer to users. 57. Our Social Media is Broken & No One Knows How to Fix It While I sit down to write, like any procrastinating writer of our times, I look for excuses that will keep me from the task at hand. It could be the windows and the weather (perhaps I need a pullover) or the more modern version of it – social media. 58. A Simple Guide to Understanding DAOs And Why They are a Force in 2022 To understand what a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) means is to dissect the three keywords: decentralization, autonomy, and organization. 59. The Rising Tempo: An Intro to Music NFTs Find out about the rise of music NFTs, why musicians are minting Music NFTs, and how the music industry could be transformed with platforms like HEN Radio. 60. Evolving Web2 to Web3: 3 New Approaches from 3 New Companies It’s time for Web2 to evolve to its next stage: Web3. 61. When you’re blocked online, can you just DIY your own internet? The internet is public infrastructure that has been highjacked by corporations and governments. Let's change that. 62. Decentralized Web vs DFINITY: Comparing 2 Decentralization Flavors Decentralized web project vs. DFINITY project - 2 decentralization implementations; a 'little' secret discovered; comparing - identity, network, communication. 63. Aleph.im: Recap of 2020 2020 was quite the year and this is especially true for aleph.im and the wider crypto space that saw significant growth and interest... 64. A Learner's Introduction to The Decentralized Internet The decentralized internet is a topic of discussion for every internet user. Find out why Web 3.0 is most talked about and why it is significant in tech. 65. Decentralized domains on the EOS blockchain: An Overview How to run a website on EOS blockchain 66. How To Fix Everything That's Wrong With the Internet What do Google, Facebook, Youtube, Amazon, Uber and a phone book have in common? They are indexes — searchable lists of stuff. Google is a list of keywords mapped to the websites they appear in. Facebook is a list of profiles, posts, private messages, events and other types of information. Youtube has users, videos and comments. Amazon: merchants and items. Uber: drivers, customers and ride requests. 67. Decentralized Metaverse Versus All-in-one Web3 Hub Comparing the significance of decentralized metaverses and web 3 hubs in the evolution of decentralized technology. 68. The Beautiful Double Helix of High Responsiveness and Decentralized Storage in the Web3.0 Era However, as Web3 technology evolves and matures, it will support deeper verticals such as manufacturing, engineering and smart cities. 69. Getting Started with Infura's Ethereum API [A Step by Step Guide] Infura provides developers and enterprises with simple, reliable access to Web3 tools and infrastructure. Our Ethereum and IPFS API suite serves and supports thousands of decentralized applications every day. 70. Three Constraints of the Metaverse Is the Metaverse going to end up little more than the video chat of the 21st Century, or does this idea, like Meta's most recent avatars, have legs? 71. Kickoff Your Application With js-libp2p I want to welcome you to libp2p! This guide will walk you through setting up a fully functional libp2p node, so that you can take control of the spacecraft 🚀 from that point on and build your application. 72. How to Set Up Aleph.im Virtual Machines Nearing the end of 2021, most blockchain dApps still have large parts of their stack that are centralized. With Aleph VMs, you can decentralize the rest. 73. Ankr's Kev Silk Discusses Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Decentralization The decentralized web brings with it some interesting challenges and opportunities. 74. What is Web 3.0 and Why Do We Need It? (Podcast Transcript) What is Web 3.0 and why should you care? 🤨 Amy Tom talks to Jaro Šatkevic, Head of Product at Mysterium Network, about the evolution of the web and Web 3.0. 75. Fake News Vs. Censorship in the Battle for the Internet In 2020, world events like the US general election and COVID-19 pandemic have shown us how both censorship and misinformation can become a political weapon. With lessons learned, how do we balance freedom of speech in 2021? Decentralizing online governance may be the answer. 76. Realigning Online Incentives Written with help from Nir Kabessa and Professor Dan Rubenstein. 77. Build Your First Dapp on Tezos Everything you need to know to create a simple Dapp on Tezos Thank you for checking out the 77 most read stories about Decentralized Web on HackerNoon. to find the most read stories about any technology. Visit the /Learn Repo

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During the Mainnet 2021 conference week in NYC, I had an opportunity to attend the Homescreen Day Spa, hosted by Skynet Labs. The event celebrated the launch of their latest product — , the first and only dashboard for managing DeFi and DWeb apps in-browser. Homescreen Skynet Labs is building software infrastructure for the decentralized internet. This includes Sia, the leading decentralized cloud storage platform, and Skynet, a content hosting and application development platform. I had the opportunity to interview , founder and CEO of Skynet Labs, about when and how he joined crypto, Skynet’s new product, and how it’s going to change the way we use the Web. He also covers trends and current pitfalls in Web3 as well as why it’s important for users to own their data and more. David Vorick Please introduce yourself. How and when did you join the crypto space? My name is David Vorick, CEO of Skynet Labs and I've been in crypto for about 10 years. My journey started when a roommate of mine popped his head into my dorm room and said: “Hey, David! I think you would really enjoy learning about Bitcoin.” I got sucked down into the deepest rabbit hole of my life and I’m still diving into that rabbit hole today. I joined IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Channels with Bitcoin and dived in around 2013. After that in 2014, I started actively building the Sia blockchain network, and its parent company Nebulous. We launched the blockchain itself in 2015 and we launched Skynet in 2020. On , it says that Skynet is a "decentralized internet for a free future". How does that mission fit into what you're working on? siasky.net I'd say the major goal of Skynet is to take out entities like Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and Snapchat. During quarantine, I really started to notice when all these YouTube creators would refuse to say the word “COVID-19” because there was a belief that the algorithm would demonetize the video and then stop showing it in the search results. So we had a global pandemic that’s affecting the entire population and at least within the sphere of YouTube, nobody's even willing to talk about it. That was wrong! We shouldn't be afraid to talk about global events simply because the unelected faceless corporation has put down rules that we don't understand, about what we are not allowed to say. I feel we need to move to a decentralized world where there is no overlord. Where content creators can feel confident that corporations are not controlling their relationship with their audience, and creators don't have to have these arbitrary rules imposed on them that neither they nor their audience agrees with. What’s Skynet Homescreen? How does it work? Homescreen is a platform for decentralized DeFi front ends and any web front ends. The idea is that instead of loading a front end like Uniswap from we would load the front end from your personal decentralized cloud storage. When you add an app to Homescreen, it is actually matching that app, downloading all the assets of that code, and storing it on your personal storage. In the future when you click on that app, you're loading it from your decentralized storage. In other words, you’re getting a fully end-to-end decentralized experience. uniswap.org How was the idea of uniting DeFi and DWeb apps on one dashboard born? I think it just kind of fell out really naturally. We made Homescreen for DeFi when we knew that a lot of companies in the space were dealing with this problem of having to host themselves for various reasons. They really didn't want to do this and wanted an alternative. So we built Homescreen for DeFi but Homescreen also works perfectly fine with all other in-browser decentralized apps as well. It seemed like a great point to introduce some of the other Skynet applications and to get the ecosystem familiar with Skynet applications as well. You explained Homescreen as a way to protect both users and developers — can you elaborate? The goal of Homescreen is to protect users by giving them control over the code that they're running. We want to give the user complete control over the platform that they are using and over the software that they depend on. Homescreen is really about the users but it has a side benefit of protecting developers as well. Every server that you run, every CryptoKitties that you have is a piece of exposure. Regulators, hackers, or just malicious people can attack and find weak points. So as a developer if you are worried about being a focal point for bad energy it helps to reduce the service area as much as possible. And for things like Uniswap or NFTs, the reward to a hacker for successfully attacking a developer server could be hundreds of millions of dollars so it's really a high-stakes game. If a developer can reduce the number of ways that they are exposed to hackers when you have a hundred million dollars on the line, that's a good thing. Why else should developers care about Homescreen? Because it's a way to get a more complete amount of decentralization into their applications. On the other hand, it’s a user experience. It gives users just a single page! Users can click on their favorite front-page or crypto application knowing that it's decentralized and they only need a single sign-in. So users are not tracking a lot of different pages anymore when they use many different apps on a screen. Instead, we’ve simplified their experience by unifying everything into a single setup. What sort of trends in Web3 do you believe we’ll see over the near term future? NFTs are just getting started and we will see them take off a lot more. We're going to see more and more people switching over to decentralization for storing data in general. Because the decentralized way of storing data just makes it cheaper for the developers, it puts the cost on the users instead. Therefore it makes it easier to launch applications and less expensive to scale one. But it also makes it a lot easier for other developers to build on your work and the activity from other users. It's a much more powerful way to build the web. People who participate in that way of building the web will have stronger applications and be more competitive overall. What pitfalls does Web3 have now? The biggest pitfall is UX today. You need browser extensions like Metamask. The Cryptocurrency bits are front-and-center, and nobody knows how to use a seed. There are a lot of ways that Web3 is different for the rest of the world. We haven't spent a ton of time refining the user experience to bring that vision to life. We're far far away but with enough energy and research we can make Web3 substantially more intuitive and essentially simpler for users than on the current web. The only way that we need to be different from Web2 is in signing in (via a decentralized identity). Other than that, everything else can be almost identical. While we’re not there yet, Web3 is different in many more ways than just seeds. We're moving towards simplified UX and we'll get pretty far in the next 2-3 years. How will decentralized apps and Homescreen change our lives? I hope we get to a point where content creators and audiences feel comfortable just saying what they think their audience will like. And as audiences, you can follow people — without worrying about the giant algorithm that's following you back, trying to learn your past personality, feed you ads, and creating rules in Terms of Service that you should be following. I think in general it's just focusing on freedom. How will Web3 change the way user data is treated today? The biggest thing is Web2 ended up in this end-state where data is in a ton of silos. Facebook knows social graphs, Instagram has all the photos, YouTube has all the videos, Twitch has all the live streaming, Snapchat has a lot of the messaging and none of these data can talk to other data. You have a super fragmented user experience where your friends on Facebook may not be your friends on Snapchat, friends in your contact book may not see comments on YouTube, and so on. Another thing is in order to make an improvement in the application, you really have to be at that company and have enough clout to suggest an improvement. For example, you think Twitter could be better but you have no ability to make a better interface or design for Twitter because all that data is locked away. So innovation is really locked into Twitter's vision. But when we open the data up and allow anyone to access any piece of data, anyone can innovate on that. You don't have to be part of the Twitter team anymore to make innovations to the core Twitter experience. If you make a superior Twitter experience, users can just switch over. So I think it’ll be a really powerful shift. Once we unlock this data, the silos will just kind of fall apart because Web2 tech companies will realize that they're completely uncompetitive. They can't make products to keep up with everything else that is happening in Web3. Why do users need to own their data and will we be able to maybe earn money from it one day? I think the big reason that you want to own your data is so that it doesn't get locked into silos. Take my data on Facebook, for example. I spent maybe 100 hours finding friends, adding them, uploading images, and commenting on stuff, probably more than a hundred, hundreds of hours. I’ve given Facebook all this data on me that's really useful to the rest of my life and the rest of my digital experience because Facebook owns the data. I can't take all that work that I did and apply to any other platform on the web. That work only exists within the walled garden on Facebook. So the reason users should have their own data is because it's your data! You're the one who put work into it. If you want that data to follow you on Twitter, that is certainly a reasonable request. If you own your data, you'll be able to make that happen. About monetization. It's not so much that you'll be able to monetize your own data. Monetization will come from finding things that are valuable. If you create something valuable: take an excellent photo or make an excellent blog post and people consume that in high volume, that's what you’ll be able to monetize. So we're not really looking to monetize your friend graph necessarily, but we're more looking to identify places where value has been created, where other people appreciate stuff that you've done, and to monetize that. What are Skynet’s plans for the next year? We plan on focusing deeply on Homescreen. This is a great opportunity to create a web browser for crypto. A lot of people have been asking: “What's the big moment of crypto?” Personally, it doesn't feel like it's had its Netscape Navigator moment yet, and I think Homescreen is that moment. So we're going to be putting a lot of energy into Homescreen. This is an amazing opportunity for us and for crypto. We also are putting our engineering efforts into decentralizing Skynet further, as well as cleaning up the user experience. There are a bunch of user experience-related hiccups with using Skynet today, and we are very motivated to eliminate those hiccups. We want using Skynet to be better and more smooth than using Web2. We're not quite there yet, but we know several things that we can build and several changes that we can make. Skynet will have a much more seamless experience for users soon, so we are planning to be posting a lot on that as well. Finally, we have some monetization plans in the works. We're not ready to talk about it yet but they're getting very close to the final. We're very excited about that soon.

An Introduction to Skynet's Homescreen for Managing DeFi and DWeb Apps 

Skynet is an open protocol for building and hosting decentralized applications. It is built on Sia, a decentralized storage network. Today, the Skynet Labs team introduces new paid accounts, setting the stage for recursive content monetization. The first 100 Hackernoon readers to sign up at http://siasky.net receive a free Skynet Plus account. The giveaway comes with 1 TB data storage and accelerated speeds for 1 year. Use code: HACKERNOON100 at the checkout to redeem. Through accounts, application developers will soon be able to monetize their web applications in real-time. By attaching a price tag per use, developers can finally be compensated fairly and transparently in crypto for their work. This recursive content monetization frees developers to focus on building and meeting their users' needs, not on appealing to traditional advertisers. Per David Vorick, Skynet Labs CEO and Lead Developer: “We believe that developers and content creators alike should be able to earn income off of their hard work so long as they have users that appreciate what they do.” Like developers, content creators will be able to set the price per view or download of their work and earn directly from their blogs, photos, and videos. How do premium accounts support monetization? When users pay for premium accounts in fiat, they provide a steady revenue stream from which to pay out content creators. Skynet Labs believes that application developers and content creators deserve fairer opportunities for advancement. Therefore, paid premium accounts are not only a functional means to that end, but are an important symbolic one: Paid account users are standing up against the massive disparity between a developer's app popularity and their earnings. Creators and developers deserve better. Skynet Labs has always been committed to the freedom of expression, information, and importantly, access. Therefore, Skynet’s Free account tier supporting up to 100 GB of data, seeks to ensure that financial barriers never prohibit users and developers from participating in the Skynet ecosystem. Once a user meets their data cap, service on Skynet will continue but at reduced speeds, in a way similar to data plans for smartphones. Overall, users can opt for one of three paid tiers: $5/mo that gives users improved speeds up to 1 TB of data stored $20/mo that gives users accelerated speeds up to 4 TB of data stored $80/mo that gives users extreme speeds up to 20 TB of data stored. Skynet Premium also comes with significant performance boosts: users will be able to pin content and browse Skynet faster, in particular any pages with monetized content. The benefits of a premium account are not purely in performance—these users are actively fueling a new creator economy, and a revolution that gives creators and developers everywhere the power they deserve.

Web Monetization In Crypto: The Skynet Way

Monero (XMR) and ZCash (ZEC) are the two most popular privacy-centric peer-to-peer crypto-networks of confidential value circulation (or crypto- , if you will). Although both in practice conceal sender, receiver, amounts and balances, they implement very different mechanisms and protocols and work in altogether different ways to achieve that. We've already covered both in two separate articles, but below we'll make a brief comparison between the two to get a better understanding of their properties in order to make more informed choices when to use which and the particular purposes best suited for each one of them. hawalas Monero First released in 2014, Monero's protocol involves highly sophisticated cryptographic schemes, apparently designed and developed by professional cryptographers and is perhaps the most -ish crypto project out there. It is sometimes even referred to as what Bitcoin had been intended to function as (but does not, since the ledger is public and auditable, as well as immutable, transactions traceable and prone to analyses which could link them to real-life identities, etc.) cypherpunk Another reason Monero is sometimes referred to as "the real Bitcoin" is its continuous efforts to maintain egalitarian decentralization of mining and rewards distribution, geared towards CPU-mining (as Bitcoin had initially been) and ASIC-resistance. The latest version of Monero currently implements a unique consensus PoW algorithm called RandomX, described in more technical detail . here Monero's strong security and privacy properties have made it a popular cybercrime tool when it comes to money laundering (such as, for example, in the case of the , the Bitcoins from which were then flipped to Monero, breaking the audit trail and making it possible to basically launder the funds - , the well-known cryptocurrency converter, which didn't require any registration or implement any KYC/AML policies at the time, as it does now). It is also the preferred method of payment in the Darknet and underground online markets where the purchase and sale of illicit goods and services takes place (such as illegal drugs, stolen personal and credit card information, arms, malware and bot nets for rent, etc.) WannaCry ransomware using Shapeshift at the time All this also makes Monero difficult to conform with much of regulatory compliance, making its listing on exchanges more difficult. But it could be said, nonetheless, that Monero is one of the most successful as such, not least insofar as fulfilling the original purpose of what Bitcoin was meant to function as (as it makes little sense to trade and keep decentralized assets on centralized exchanges, while at the same time completely revealing ones' identity and person information in order to do so). cryptocurrencies For more in depth technical description and explanation, as well as history and background of Monero, the community co-written book is highly recommended and available for free in PDF format . "Mastering Monero" here Mining Monero Monero's RandomX algorithm is specifically tailored for ASIC-resistance and egalitarian CPU mining, as mentioned already. It would be even be mined using a web miner, as described in a previous article comparing Monero and Masari (two somewhat similar privacy-oriented coins). The caveat here is that those properties allow for easily spreading Monero-based crypto mining malware, as also described on the : Monero mining software Github page Unfortunately some bot herders point their botnets to download miners directly from github, which leads them to be flagged by antivirus software. If you want to use the pre-built binaries, you might need to add them as an exception in your antivirus. Another way to prevent antivirus flagging is to compile the code yourself. Antivirus / browser warnings As with other mining operations, mining Monero is usually mined in pools and in the cloud. The best known Monero cloud mining services at the moment are and . Minergate CCG Being mostly CPU-based, Monero's mining process is much less intensive in terms of processing and computing power consumption. To get started with mining Monero, visit their mining section and follow the instructions. official site's Links and Resources: . Official site Monero . Mattermost chat Monero . official Telegram . Monero StackExchange Monero on . Bitcointalk . Monero reddit . Monero mining reddit . Monero mining calculator Monero analytics and review at . cryptocompare ZCash ZCash (initially known as ZeroCash), on the other hand, started out as a modified Bitcoin fork which additionally implemented in how transactions are carried out across the network. Being in many ways more of a research-invested and involved experiment, with potential for a very wide variety of application implementations beyond just cryptocurrency (having academic cryptographers and institutions involved in the R&D, such as - which, when thought about, also makes a lot of sense, given Israel) - as already witnessed by the wide spread implementation of its (Succinct Non-Interactive ARguments of Knowledge) protocol in other cryptocurrency applications (e.g., Ethereum and others). This is unlike Monero, which is more of a community run project and also the reason why such a large portion of the mining rewards from ZCash go to the founders in order to finance further core scientific research (another example would be the hashing function developed by ZCash founder Zooko Wilcox and others in January 2020, which is significantly faster than MD5 and SHA-1/2/3, additionally implementing some other very useful properties as it is itself a on the inside). zero-knowledge cryptography Israel's famous Institute of Technology, Technion ZkSNARKs BLAKE3 Merkle tree Development work on Zcash began in 2013 by Johns Hopkins and some of his graduate students at Johns Hopkins University, and was completed by the for-profit ZCash Company, led by (well-known figure in the crypto space), raising over $3 million from Silicon Valley venture capitalists for the purpose. It was first mined in October of 2016 and currently implements an equihash type Proof-of-Work consensus algorithm. professor Matthew Green Zooko Wilcox ZCash supports both transparent and shielded transactions (in their respective pools). Transparent transactions function pretty much in identical fashion as regular Bitcoin transactions do, while shielded transactions are concealed, utilizing ZCash's zero-knowledge cryptographic protocol known as ZkSNARKs. Shielded, or private transactions could also be revealed if necessary (for the purpose of audits, proofs or some regulatory compliance reason or other, by the owner of the address/wallet himself). But while only as little as 6% of ZCash's transactions seem to be carried out as shielded, transactions on Monero are, on the other hand, are always 100% anonymouys. The weakest point in the ZCash's zkSNARK scheme is its dependence on an initial trusted setup phase (or "ceremony", as it is called) that could in theory be potentially compromised. In addition to that, zkSNARKs are vulnerable to quantum attacks since they rely on elliptic curve cryptography. Which is why ZCash also works on developing a different ZK construction to substitute zkSNARKs eventually, called (Zero-Knowledge Scalable Transparent ARguments of Knowledge). ZkSTARK is said to be much faster, cheaper and most importantly, quantum-proof (as quantum computers and something already existing and expected to make much of the current cryptographic schemes and algorithms today obsolete tomorrow) without relying on any trusted setup ceremony. As Zk-SNARKs researcher Professor from Technion : zkSTARKs Eli Ben-Sasson explains zk-SNARKs use asymmetric public key cryptography to establish security. zk-STARKs instead requires a leaner symmetric cryptography, namely, collision resistant hash functions, and thus removes the need for a trusted setup. These same techniques also eliminate the number-theoretic assumptions of zk-SNARKs that are computationally expensive and prone to attack by quantum computers. This makes zk-STARKs both faster to generate and post-quantum secure. ZCash Mining ZCash used to be one of the most profitable coins to mine at one time and for a relatively long period, but with the advent of ASIC miners and the industrialization of the mining industry at scale ("economies of scale"), it is today much less profitable and approximating profits in the medium or long-term involves too many variables to be reliably predictable. Such variables that factor in include difficulty, hash rate, ZEC/USD exchange rate, rewards per block and pool fees, hardware costss and power cost per kWh (perhaps the most crucial point, which means that Zcash mining is most profitable when having access to cheap electricity and cool environment). As with other PoW-based cryptocurrencies, the total hash rate reflects the amount of computing power dedicated to processing transactions. Average block time is 2.5 minutes and, as with Bitcoin, Zcash difficulty is automatically calibrated to stay within that range no matter how much processing power is invested in mining the coin. When choosing a GPU card for mining ZCash, one should go for the ZCash NVIDIA miner (which is best suitable for mining ZCash on the Equihash algorithm (whereas AMD cards are better suitable and more profitable for mining on Ethereum) - Equihash having the reputation of being one of the most ASIC-resistant hashing algorithms in the industry. ZCash mostly uses the Zcash Claymore ZEC Miner, available for download . Hardware-wise, ZEC miners could be GPU rigs or farms, or even equihash-specific ASICs. here There is also a for the purpose where one can get the latest updates. Needless to say, it is useless and futile to try with ZCash CPU miner, whether solo or in a Zcash mining pool. The Zcash and ZCash are the most popular ones, with Nanopool also offering pools for Monero, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic and others. A step-by-step Zcash mining guide to get one started (with ZEC or any of the other currencies supported) can be found . Flypool on the other hand also mines ETH and ETC (as well as the lesser known YEC, RVN and BEAM). The current ZCash difficulty chart can be found (among other analytics providing sites). More detailed information and resources regarding the best current ZCash mining hardware can be . dedicated Zcash reddit Flypool Nanopool here here here The way how to mine ZCash doesn't differ much from how other similar currencies are mined - once everything is put together, assembled, set and configured, one chooses one of the available ZCash mining pools and joins, sharing in the profits in proportion to the computational resources allocated for the purpose. A Zcash mining and profit calculator for roughly approximating costs, profits and ROIs within the range of current parameters as they are can be found (one among many available, and as already emphasized, the common denominator in proof-of-work mining is always electricity costs). here Otherwise, one can (using fiat via credit or debit card or swapping with other cryptocurrencies listed by Coinbase). Binance, CEX.io and eToro are other reliable options one can use to buy Zcash, trade or exchange it on the markets (where Coinbase and CEX.io act more as sellers and custodians, Binance and eToro are actual exchanges, with Binance even offering .) buy ZCash from Coinbase Zcash futures contracts Links and Resources: community chat. Discord Official community . Zcash forum and discussion boards Unofficial . Zcash reddit . ZEC miners reddit Another . ZCash mining calculator ZEC overview at . cryptocompare is a site which works as a Zcash faucent and dispenses small amounts of free ZCash every 24 hours. Some free Zcash was also offered by Coinbase's Earn program until recently, where one is offered to watch and listen to lectures explaining the purpose and workings of Zcash and answer a few simple questions after to get 5 dollars' worth of ZEC in return (however, ). pipeflare.io all the ZEC has been claimed by now Conclusion: Monero Vs. ZCash - Which to Use or Mine, When and What For? Bitcoin transactions, given the immutability of its public records in the ledger, can result in some bitcoins (UTXOs) to become "tainted", or otherwise associated with a particular hack, ransom or illicit exchange (of, say, illegal goods) - which may lead to their further spending along the audit trail be traced and blacklisted by some services, exchanges or users (or at the very least, come into suspicion or closer scrutiny). This is where Monero, ZCash and other privacy-oriented alternatives come in. And it is their anonymity (as opposed to Bitcoin's pseudonymity) that actually does make them . fungible Overall, for the purposes of private, unlinkable transactions, Monero tends to be preferred over ZCash (when comparing ZCash vs. Monero), while ZCash appears to be more focused on cryptography research and development, using its peer-to-peer crypto-network as something of a testing ground in real life (as seen also by the amount of shielded transactions actually taking place in ZCash). ZCash may also be much more prone to centralization, as Zooko Wilcox himself confirms, citing David Vorick's blog post, (dated May 13, 2018). However, it would appear that the ZCash team are less concerned with the practical applications of their cryptocurrency than they are with the research, development, innovation and other practical implementations of ZK constructions (and have contributed enormously to the space overall by doing so). "The State of Cryptocurrency Mining" Also importantly, while Monero relies mostly on volunteer developers and donations to subsidize it (i.e., is community run enterprise), ZCash effectively funds its development budget by taking some 20% of the miners' rewards (15% going to the group of founders and early investors and 5% towards funding developers to further improve the protocol and its implementation). From a regulatory standpoint, however, both Monero and ZCash may face some difficulties in the future, but appear to be operating more or less under the radar for the time being. Finally, one of the easiest way to acquire and store both Monero and ZCash is by using the , which supports a very wide range of available cryptocurrencies ( is also a blog entry from their official site, discussing ZCash and Monero). Alternatively, both Zcash and Monero provide their own respective wallets ( and ). Exodus desktop wallet here ZECWallet Monero GUI, CLI, mobile and hardware wallets

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The State Of The Market — October 7, 2018 BTC : $6,562.60 (-0.41%) : $223.33 (-0.67%) : $0.475 (-3.68%) ETH XRP The Cryptocurrency market has been very slow this week, with Bitcoin still moving between $6,400 and $6,600. Most cryptocurrencies moved by less than 1% on a daily basis. Ethereum is still stable at $223, going down by just $1 this week. However, XRP posted significant losses after it failed to meet the hype for its Swell event. XRP went from $0.6 to $0.47, losing more than 21% of its value. In other news, the Ethereum Enterprise Alliance (EEA) has with Hyperledger to accelerate blockchain adoption and cryptocurrency exchange to US clients due to regulations. announced a partnership Poloniex will no longer offer margin trading services Tiger Global, which recently invested $245 million in payments service provider Stripe, plans to invest $500 million in the exchange valued at $8 billion. Although Coinbase has not commented on the proposal, the capital would be used to buy out shareholders. The exchange is backed by several organizations including Battery Ventures, Draper Associates, Spark Capital and Ribbit Capital. Tiger Global is an investor in other large companies like Flipkart, Ola and Spotify. ( ) 1) Tiger Global hedge fund is planning to invest in US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. Read More A trio of firms, Mercury FX, Cuallix and Catalyst Corporate Federal Credit Union, will be the maiden Ripple customers “to make on-demand cross-border payments” on the RippleNet platform with the XRP cryptocurrency, according to a tweet by the blockchain startup. Ripple executives alluded to this development in recent weeks, and the company tied in its Swell conference with the announcement. ( ) 2) Ripple announced on Twitter that its xRapid product is going into commercial production. Read More David Vorick of Nebulous recently announced that hardware manufactured by Nebulous will now serve as the primary method of mining SIA. According to Vorick, the hard fork is “better than resisting ASICs altogether” but he added that “we don’t believe that a cryptocurrency needs to embrace a parasitic or abusive ASIC monopoly.” Vorick also mentioned that a vote was held in a Reddit thread and the decision to fork received nearly 100% agreement. ( ) 3) SIA has decided to block big mining companies by enacting a software update that will prevent certain types of mining hardware from mining on the platform. Read More Subscribe to the Berminal Brief Newsletter Download Berminal App for Free The Berminal Website Berminal Official Telegram Berminal Twitter

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Today was another slow day for the market, as Bitcoin went from $6,500 to $6,610, only to fall back to $6,500 once again. The 24-hour change for is just -0.16%. Ethereum has also been stable at $228. However, XRP, which went up by more than 100% last week in anticipation of its invite-only event which took place today, did not move. It is still at $0.56, though the company announced new partnerships at the event for its xRapid product. The State of The Market: Bitcoin Ripple announced on Twitter that its xRapid product is going into commercial production. A trio of firms, Mercury FX, Cuallix and Catalyst Corporate Federal Credit Union, will be the maiden Ripple customers “to make on-demand cross-border payments” on the RippleNet platform with the XRP cryptocurrency, according to a tweet by the blockchain startup. Ripple executives alluded to this development in recent weeks, and the company tied in its Swell conference with the announcement ( ). read more The Ethereum Enterprise Alliance (EEA), which has over 100 enterprise members has announced a partnership with Hyperledger. EEA is an organization to help enterprises use the Ethereum blockchain, while Hyperledger develops open-source blockchain solutions. The goal of this partnership is to drive blockchain adoption. Hyperledger developers will now be able to join EEA and acquire EEA certification required for compliance. Ethereum Enterprise Alliance has some of the biggest names in the industry, like JP Morgan, Intel, Microsoft, CME Group, Accenture, Ernst & Young, and Infosys ( ). read more SIA has decided to block big mining companies by enacting a software update that will prevent certain types of mining hardware from mining on the platform. David Vorick of Nebulous recently announced that hardware manufactured by Nebulous will now serve as the primary method of mining SIA. According to Vorick, the hard fork is “better than resisting ASICs altogether” but he added that “we don’t believe that a cryptocurrency needs to embrace a parasitic or abusive ASIC monopoly.” Vorick also mentioned that a vote was held in a Reddit thread and the decision to fork is nearly 100 percent agreed ( ). read more Subscribe to the Berminal Brief Newsletter Download Berminal for Free The Berminal Website Berminal Official Telegram Berminal Twitter

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For my first review I will be going over Sia — one of the players in the decentralized storage space. The cloud storage industry is massive and companies like Sia are hoping to put a dent in the dominance Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have enjoyed over the past decade. _Sia's decentralized cloud is on average 10x less expensive than current cloud storage providers. Storing 1TB on Sia…_sia.tech Sia It took a while but I am finally picking back up on my crypto review series. If you haven't read my previous articles, please check out my intro to . bitcoin _How to dip your toes in from a non-technical perspective…_medium.com Getting Started With Bitcoin And my intro to the crypto review series _“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here…_medium.com Crypto Review Series — Introduction I will write about coins I am interested in, most likely I will own some (I own ~40 different coins now so that doesnt make them particularly special) but in no way is this investment advice — it is generally a way for me to align my thoughts — do your own research before investing!! What is Sia? Basically storage — think dropbox, google drive, etc. The shtick is that it is decentralized, encrypted, peer to peer storage — although, no one party is holding the information you are storing — it is encrypted, multiplied, chopped into little bits, and then all those little bits are sent around to a bunch of different hosts. When you want access to your file, the appropriate bits are recompiled and you get your file. Think of your file as being in a T-1000 type state. “Please SIA, can I have my photo of aunt Judy?” Sia: “One moment” ::ominous noises:: By building the framework and outsourcing the storage to anyone with a hard drive and an internet connection Sia has reduced overhead dramatically and can charge a much lower fee. They multiply the bits in case a node holding a piece of your file happens to be offline (even though they are incentivized not to be). Now for some due diligence People Sia was created by David Vorick and Luke Champine of Nebulous Inc, a VC-funded startup in Boston.The idea of Sia was originally conceived at HackMIT 2013. There really isnt much out there on David Vorick but not in the way that some of these scam coins have shady founders but more in the way where I am assuming he is more head down, focusing on the product. The VC firm seems legit but there isnt really any other crypto (when i checked) in their portfolio. It seems like they could use a marketing/evangelist type. David’s online presence basically boils down to his medium posts and some youtube videos. This one also had the added benefit of talking through the different storage protocols. David jumps in at min 13. I like his tone for as much as thats worth. blockchain Product They have a product & users!! There are two components that set Sia apart from other decentralized storage (STORJ, IPFS) on the pricing side. I have a reasonable understanding of STORJ, still looking into IPFS so these assumptions may not be 100%. Price — Host (those with storage) sets the price they want. Its good because ideally market forces will find the price. Not good because it adds a step and could turn some users off. File Contract — (Jump to min 29 in vid for their revenue model in relation to this) The structure makes a lot of sense, although I think it sacrifices some ease of use for a better incentive structure. I think we may be seeing a theme with Sia……… Product details can be picked up from their website but my take is that they are taking the whole decentralized thing to the max. This is great for decentralization maximalists but I do think it may limit the extent of their adoption. They also tout the redundancy they get from storing file bits across multiple machines and incentivizing hosts to stay online. A blockchain company with a live product? something is amiss I haven't stored anything yet but but this shed some interesting light on the structure. You need to lock some funds up that you can then use to secure storage at whatever rate you are comfortable with. As adoption picks up a lot of the coins will be off the exchanges and locked up. Could lead to volatility of those outstanding or it may just find a nice equilibrium. Something to keep an eye on. Coin Duh Biggest question with all these projects is — Do they reeeeeeeeally need their own token? Sia is issued on the blockchain where they issue the smart contracts. Im sure there are some more nitty gritty details that lay it out but it seems like a reasonable enough reason for a separate currency. Financials Heres what they are touting, directly from their front page Now, this is really only a projection because the host(those with HD space to rent) set their own price (because its decentralized!!!) It looks like from a list of active hosts that the going rate is ~2k SC per TB per month which at current rates (.00000570 BTC @ BTC = 2700 USD) comes out to a bit over $30. I think this is mostly because of the massive increase in price SC has seen over the past month (roughly 6x increase against USD, 4x against bitcoin) and my assumption that these are longer term contracts. I imagine the longer its out the more stable the price will become but as you can see it is truly global in scope so some volatility against USD will remain. I do think their claim in the chart above is a little misleading though since they are assuming hosts will be willing to be paid at that rate. Coin creation There are 26 billion or so SC now, and there will eventually by around 48 billion in 2023. The faster minting is a bit of a concern now but they seem to be gaining adoption at a decent clip. At the current price of 2k SC per terabyte per month when all 48,460,000,000 coins are mined they will have a capacity of 24.23 exabytes. totally knew that I couldn’t find information on exactly how much Amazon is storing total these days but I don’t think this is that crazy of a number. Driverless car, Image recognition, VR, AI, machine learning, other cool buzzwords — what do they all have in common? a need for massive amounts of data. Activity/Transparency Love this — a public Trello board with their roadmap _Organize anything, together. Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance…_trello.com Trello There is a lot of useful information on their like the distribution of hosts. Pulse Site and the current prices (I believe those are monthly) They also seem very active in slack answering questions. It seems like David is making the rounds more now but to make the jump they will likely need to bring in some marketing folks. They are VERY open with the project which the community appreciates so if they deliver Im sure we will continue to hear more from them. Conclusion The next step for Sia in my opinion is landing a big partner or some applications built on it to gain some notoriety. My guess is STORJ will be more consumer focused, IPFS is going to land the enterprise projects, and Sia will fall somewhere in between but be popular with the projects striving for true full stack decentralization. I really think some of the “Next 6 Months” items could trigger a jump — video streaming gets people excited, automatic host pricing will make it less manual, and supporting over 10 TB at a time should allow for more applications to be built on it. Feel free to recommend a coin to dive into next, and as always, please do your own research and only invest as much as you can afford to lose. Happy Investing!

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