#Decentralized-Internet Writing Competition 2021: November Results Announced!

Hey Hackers!

This is the second last announcement of the HackerNoon Decentralized Internet Contest. HackerNoon has partnered with Everscale to give away monthly prizes to the best HackerNoon#Decentralized-Internet stories!

Top 15 Nominations

As usual, we picked all the stories tagged with #Decentralized-Internet on HackerNoon, published in November 2021. Then we chose the top 15 stories using 60:30:10 weightage respectively to:

• Number of hours read

• Number of people reached

• The freshness of the content

  
  

Here is the list of our top 15 contenders:

1. Understanding Metaverse: A Basic Explanation by @sergey-baloyan
2. DeFi on Bitcoin: How Sovryn is Answering The Final Criticism Against Bitcoin by @mickey-maler
3. Play2Earn for Beginners: Where to Start by @sergey-baloyan
4. ThoughtSlime on Why All NFTs are a Scam by @justin-roberti
5. I Stopped Developing iOS Apps and Switched to Web App Development After 12 Years on The App Store by @rosano
6. My Favourite Scams these days (Cryptocurrencies, Mining, Forex, and NFT scams) — 2021 deep dive by @jernej
7. Top 5 NFT Play-to-Earn Marketplaces to Follow in 2022 by @CryptoAdventure
8. In the 90s, Web 1.0 was Running on a Fully Decentralized Infrastructure by @randhindi
9. This Self-Proclaimed Art Illiterate Person Builds Web3 Products for Coinbase by @gagangehani
10. Decentralized Uber: Here's How I Built It With Status.im, Waku, and Vue.js  by @thebojda
11. The Decentralized Internet and Redistribution of Power by @rohitmalekar
12. The One True Metaverse Shall Be Decentralized by @mashacryptoprlab
13. The Centralized Internet is Broken by @jmau111
14. How to Import Crypto APIs into Excel by@alfredodecandia
15. The Facebook Outage Proved a Need for Greater Decentralization by @mustaeenah

As usual, the editors voted for the top stories, and as usual, it was tough to choose the top three because you writers have set the quality bar really high!

This time something different happened! One writer has won for his two different stories!

Let’s see who won 👀

November Winners

Here are this month's results (ranked in order according to votes and algorithm):

In the first place, we have ThoughtSlime on Why All NFTs are a Scam by @justin-roberti with 15% of the votes.

A community not open to criticism is inherently a weak community. It’s important to engage with outside POVs -- it’s no longer just our baby. Blockchain belongs to the world now. Mainstreaming includes dissenting points of view.

We loved the interview @justin-roberti! No wonder Justin is now one of our first verified writers! Congratulations!

Now, people, this happened for the first time in the history of HackerNoon writing contests! A writer scored second and third position for his two stories in the same month!

Congratulations, @sergey-baloyan, for making history!

So in the second place, we have Understanding Metaverse: A Basic Explanation (Whopping 3k+ views, 11% votes)!

This is the future that we are heading towards, and only a small hint of the total impact that metaverse can have on the world. Even this already seems huge, but it is only scratching the surface, and in only a few years, or maybe decades — we expect the world to be a lot different than the one we grew up in, thanks to such massive technological leaps.

In the third place, we have Play2Earn for Beginners: Where to Start (11% votes)

The industry of blockchain and NFT games is just developing, but we can already see how the market is filled with games of various genres with their own characteristics and capabilities. In the near future, the growth of this segment of the crypto market will grow, and the number of users making money while playing will definitely increase.

Thank you, @sergey-baloyan, for sharing such insightful stories with the community.

We will contact the winners soon. All hail to decentralization… AND HackerNoon Community!