How Decentralized Can We Get in The Modern World?
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English - March 26, 2021 16:00 - 55 minutes - 35.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsTechnology News Tech News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Amy Tom (a new voice on the podcast and a Hacker Noon editor!) is joined by Sharmini Ravindran, the CMO at Mysterium Network. They discuss achieving anonymity from the modern Internet, incentivizing peer-to-peer networks on a global scale to improve personal privacy and data control, and the humanitarian aspects of Internet accessibility.
In this episode, Amy and Sharmini chat about:
Whether true decentralization from the modern Internet is possible or not (20:00)
The shift towards distributed permissionless peer-peer networks (03:45)
VPN nodes that allow anonymous bandwidth sharing between peers (13:25)
The humanitarian impact of the Internet and what happens when control is taken away from the user (27:00)
The varying levels of control placed upon the Internet in different countries (11:15, 22:30)
Follow Sharmini & Mysterium Networks:
You can visit Mysterium Network's Website at mysterium.network
You can follow Sharmini on Twitter at @the_sharmini