Threefold - ‘World's Largest Distributed Peer-To-Peer Network’

guest · Jun 21, 2020

ThreeFold | A True Peer-to-Peer Internet

Empowering equality, autonomy and sustainability with game-changing technology built with a collaborative ecosystem.
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‘Largest Distributed Peer-To-Peer Grid’ On The Planet Laying Foundation For A Decentralized Internet
June 20, 2020
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnko...on-for-a-decentralized-internet/#73025726798f

A project to decentralize the internet that you’ve never heard of has more capacity than all other blockchain projects put together: 5-10X more, according to its founder.

The project is called ThreeFold, and it’s not your typical blockchain startup.
Instead, it’s a long-term project to rewire the internet in the image of its first incarnation: decentralized, unowned, accessible, free.

“We have 18,000 CPU cores and 90 million gigabytes, which is a lot of capacity,” founder Kristof de Spiegeleer told me recently on the TechFirst podcast. “It’s probably between five and ten times more than all of the capacity of all the blockchain projects together.”
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So instead of a Bitcoin scenario where some of the fastest computers in the world waste country-scale amounts of electricity doing arcane math to create an imaginary currency with dubious value (apologies, are my biases showing?) you have people providing actual tangible services for others in exchange for some degree of cryptocurrency reward. Which, in my (very) humble opinion, offers a lot more social utility.

ThreeFold and partners have invested more than $40 million in make it happen, de Spiegeleer says, and there are more than 30 partners working on the project or onboarding shortly.
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Get a full transcript of our conversation here.
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guest · Jun 21, 2020

Decentranet Teams Up With World’s Largest P2P Network ThreeFold
June 12, 2020
https://medium.com/the-blockchain-n...ds-largest-p2p-network-threefold-8ae80be5b53f

Investment and advisory firm DecentraNet has cut a deal with ThreeFold [...]

“The new Internet has to be democratized, neutral, and secure to provide autonomy to all its stakeholders. [...]
To have a truly decentralized network, the nodes and infrastructure need to be owned by the users, not big corporations. Threefold puts this into practice now with the largest decentralized network in the world,” says Matt McKibbin, Founder of DecentraNet.
With significant storage, compute, and network capacity available around the globe, and partnerships like Hewlett Packard and Stellar, ThreeFold is planning to replace four of the current seven layers of the Internet infrastructure, [...] with the ultimate goal of empowering equality, autonomy, and sustainability through its game-changing technology and collaborative ecosystem.
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“Currently, less than 20 companies in the world own more than 80% of the internet’s capacity. Data also resides in huge data centers, where 5 to 10% of the world’s electricity goes, a number which will grow in the coming years. Today, we don’t own our data or the applications on our phones.”
DecentraNet’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to a more decentralized future and consider ThreeFold a perfect partner in this effort.
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mirimir · Jun 22, 2020

Huh. Interesting. Orchid (VPN chains) and LokiNet (onion routing) have a privacy focus. But this, not so much, it seems. However, perhaps I'm biased.

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