The Cypherpunk Movement
In a world dominated by GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon) and centralized database hacks and a brittle Internet, Cypherpunks are organizing to change all of the rules.
Cypherpunks are programming activists advocating widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a route to social and political change.
Anonymity, privacy, and freedom are at the heart of the cypherpunk movement and their technologies typically consist of peer-to-peer communications, strong encryption, crypto-hashing, and cryptocurrencies. Sounds familiar?
Computes Inc.’s peer-to-peer, encrypted, computing technology appears to be at the center of this movement. In addition to solving supercomputing and ambient computing demands for large enterprise companies, Computes is basically a decentralized operating system and computing platform allowing developers to build next generation decentralized apps (DApps) and Web 3.0 solutions perfect for disrupting these 800-pound, old-world incumbent companies.
As a reminder, the Computes platform does not use decade-old blockchain technology. Instead, Computes was architected to run as a next generation DAG-based DLT and decentralized queuing technology. We affectionately call our DLT and queue technology, Lattice. Lattice frees us from the slow Bitcoin/Ethereum transaction speeds and the wasted PoW mining and the requirement that every node must maintain the entire ledger. Nodes on the Computes network can come and go at will and connect, communicate, and compute on demand. This design enables cooperative computing everywhere and opens doors for many new decentralization start-up ideas that address the cypherpunk culture and movement.
To highlight some of these new blockchain 2.0 and web 3.0 ideas and use cases, we have developed Arpadyne to showcase a new peer-to-peer Internet platform with no cloud, no web servers, and no DNS. We have also demonstrated how decentralized APIs could work on a decentralized computing platform.
We should all be welcoming (and bracing ourselves for) the huge shift coming in decentralized peer-to-peer computing-powered startups. New companies such as D.Tube will rival YouTube with new peer-to-peer video streaming and no censorship.
Filecoin, Storj, and Sia will rival Box, DropBox, Google Drive, and AWS S3 storage incumbents.
Computes will rival the existing AWS and Azure cloud computing incumbents by enabling companies to leverage their idle computing capacity in their data centers, workstations/laptops, mobile devices, and edge networks.
Everyday consumers will soon be able to participate in all of these decentralized networks by donating or renting their excess computing power and/or free storage to certain causes or to customers willing to pay for these decentralized services.
Welcome to the brave new cypherpunk world!
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