#Decentralized-Internet Writing Competition: July Results Announced

Hey Hackers! July had been a great month! We got many superb #decentalized-internet stories, and now it is time to celebrate our contributors!

YES, WE LOVE OUR WRITERS, AND WE LOVE the idea of Decentralized Internet.

That's why HackerNoon has built a partnership with Free Ton (Now Eversclae), and we're giving away monthly prizes worth $3,500 to the best HackerNoon #Decentralized-Internet stories!

Here's how you can participate:

• Set up an account on HackerNoon.
• Check out the Decentralized Internet Writing Competition's rules.
• Pen your story and submit it with #Decentralized-Internet as one of the tags.

So, are you one of the winners of #Decentralized-Internet writing contest for the month of July? 👀 Let's find out.

Our Top 15 Contenders

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

• Number of hours read
• Number of people reached
• Freshness of the content

Here is the list of our top 15 contenders:

• Risk Control Lies at the Core of Lending Platforms - Unhashed #13 by @musharraf
• Security issues in the Blockchain That Need To Be Talked About More by @induction
• The Current State of Cryptocurrencies in Africa by @Sergeenkov
• The Walled Gardens of Social Media: From the Free Web to the “Free” Web by @roxanamurariu
• My Wife: A Strong Woman, Not a Vessel by @albertocuestacanada
• What are Cross-Chain Swaps? by @Sergeenkov
• What are the differences between Bitcoin and XRP? by @panosmek
• B1 and Chintai are Mainstreaming Blockchain in Traditional Finance by @justin-roberti
• Is There a Future for Cryptocurrencies Without Privacy Features? by @alex123
• A Beginners Guide to Decentralized Internet by @bhavjyot
• Decentralization of the Internet: The Frontier of the Internet by @nich
• Learn the Blockchain Basics - Part 3 : Hashing Functions by @mickey-maler
• "Freedom of Movement is a Human Right, So Too Should be the Freedom of Information" James O Connor by @Christopher_Fowler
• The Need for a Decentralized Untainted and Uncontrolled Internet by @josefjix
• The Pros & Cons Of Anonymous Assassination Betting Sites by @rhortx

Le Democracy

We created a poll in HackerNoon's writing contest channel and asked the editors to vote. This time, there was a tie between three stories!

Each of these three got 14% of the votes. So we decided to rank them according to their overall score.

Results

And the winners are *Drumroll 🥁* :

In the first place, we have Security issues in the Blockchain That Need To Be Talked About More.

@induction wins 2,000 TON crystals.

Congratulations, an insightful article indeed!

Not all developers from all blockchain networks are trusted. Some of them can secretly adjust the system to withdraw or issue excessive amounts of coin/token without the pre-warning to investors and even a single developer can collapse the entire project. It means, even the trusted project can make the scam exit without showing any sort of the classical scam signs.

The story in the second place is My Wife: A Strong Woman, Not a Vessel.

I’ve named this Hashmask “Not a Vessel” to honor my wife and all the women who fight to preserve their identity through pregnancy.

Alberto Cuesta Cañada - we really appreciate your sentiment, and congratulations on writing a winner story!

@albertocuestacanada wins 1000 TON crystals.

The third winner of this month is A Beginners Guide to Decentralized Internet.

Congratulations, @bhavjyot! You have won 500 TON crystals

Innovative services provided by ISPs and tech giants like Google and Facebook boosted the internet's growth. But, this has resulted in power being in the hands of few and the internet being controlled by governments and tech service providers.

That's a wrap! We'll contact winners for the payments. Enjoy!