Topic: A decentralized web would give power back to the people online (Read 2071 times)

Privacy: Decentralisation forces an increased focus on data privacy. Data is distributed across the network and end-to-end encryption technologies are critical for ensuring that only authorized users can read and write. Access to the data itself is entirely controlled algorithmically by the network as opposed to more centralized networks where typically the owner of that network has full access to data, facilitating  customer profiling and ad targeting.

Data Portability: In a decentralized environment, users own their data and choose with whom they share this data. Moreover they retain control of it when they leave a given service provider (assuming the service even has the concept of service providers). This is important. If I want to move from General Motors to BMW today, why should I not be able to take my driving records with me? The same applies to chat platform history or health records.

Security: Finally, we live in a world of increased security threats. In a centralized environment, the bigger the silo, the bigger the honeypot is to attract bad actors. Decentralized environments are safer by their general nature against being hacked, infiltrated, acquired, bankrupted or otherwise compromised as they have been built to exist under public scrutiny from the outset.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/09/a-decentralized-web-would-give-power-back-to-the-people-online/

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Do you think that SHIFT has massive potential for the future?

http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/shift/

I'm all in favor of content that can't be censored, so this looks interesting.

Genuine question: Why would one buy Shift when https://ipfs.io/ does essentially the same thing for free?

When it hits mainnet it'll be huge. decentralised web is a trillion dollar market.

When it hits mainnet it'll be huge. decentralised web is a trillion dollar market.

This is the best time to buy Shift. Price is at it's lowest and product is about to hit mainnet anyday. The devs are also heavily focussed on the technology and making in the best there is, so that helps.

I just bought into shift today.. have been waiting for some tome to get in cheap and I finally made it. I believe Shift will be very huge one day. I0ve voted for the delegates and will be receiving 8 Shift per month which might be worth a lot in a year or so. Very optimistic on this one.

This delegate thing catched my eye. May you tell me more about it ? I am also believing it could be worth quite a bunch in some times, so I would like to do the same thing than you.