Topic: Heleus Core, an ecosystem for (free) services and apps that respect your privacy (Read 208 times)

Hi everyone,

I would like to introduce you to Heleus Core, our blockchain based ecosystem for apps and services. Let me please tell you the idea and motivation behind Heleus Core and why I think it not just another useless crypto currency.

I am a passionate software developer, already as a child, I did programming on my C64 and I like my privacy. I don't want to share all my life with Facebook or Google. In the last years, more and more bigger or smaller data scandals about Facebook oder any other company were revealed (Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Your period-tracking app could be sharing intimate details with all of Facebook, and many more).

Out of curiosity, not a lot of people care about this shit, but I do. And with the rise of the blockchain and cryptocurrencies, I thought, there must be a way to change this and the idea of Heleus Core was born. Here's an excerpt from the website, https://heleuscore.com:

The users must have 100% control of their data and privacy
We want to build an ecosystem for (free) services and apps that respect the privacy of the users. We understand that developers need to pay their bills at the end of the day like everyone else. But the users were conditioned in the last decades, that digital services should be free. Honestly, would you pay $10 a month for a messenger or a social network? You probably wouldn't. But developing something like that costs a lot of money.

And the easiest way to make money to pay the bills is to collect all your data and meta data, link all this data to build a personal profile and finally use this against you. Like using psychological tricks and algorithms to let you buy stuff that you don't need or sell illegally your personal data to other external companies for billions of profit.

We at Heleus Core don't want this anymore. We want to break free. Users should not pay anymore with their loss of privacy. We provide a new and better way to offer (free) services that respect the privacy of the users.

The Heleus Coin is the foundation for an independent ecosystem
At the end of the day, everybody has to pay for their bills. For this reason, we developed the Heleus Coin. It's a crypto currency, but with a purpose. Usually, crypto currencies have no other purpose than being a crypto currency. But the Heleus Coin is more, it is the foundation for our independent ecosystem.

Validated Heleus Core services generate the Heleus Coin as a compensation. And the more successful a service is, the more Heleus Coins it generates. And we also let the users participate in this process as a certain amount of the generated Heleus Coins goes the users of service. And the users can use the Heleus Coins to buy premium content or subscriptions for this or another service. And the Heleus Coin is valid in every Heleus Core service, it is not coupled to one service.

As you can see, the Heleus Coin is the foundation for our independent Heleus Core ecosystem. It has a purpose. It is powered by all the Heleus Core services and the users, that use them on a daily basis. With the Heleus Coin, developers can break free. They don't have to sell the data of their users to make money. They can focus on building great apps and services with privacy in mind.

You can find much more information on our website, https://heleuscore.com.

Thank you for reading

If you have questions, critique or anything else, please let me know.

And our public beta test starts next week. If you are interested, please let us and if you like the idea of Heleus Core, please share it with your friends.

Marko