Regulatory stick, giant "encirclement and suppression", how to save the encryption industry?

Original title: "big stick of regulation, giant" encircle and suppress ", how does encryption industry redeem itself?"

It's a PANews  affair.

On December 31, 2019, sun yuchen, founder of wave field, completed the last acquisition of the year, and the decentralized live streaming platform DLive officially joined the BitTorrent ecosystem and began to migrate to wave field. Launching DLive in 2018 with more than 5 million monthly users, he says he wants to "bring value to the world." Just over half a month ago, sun yuchen, a celebrity on the social media platform, broke his ban on sina weibo. The account of his millions of followers was suddenly blocked.

On December 25, 2019, nuggets news founder Alex Saunders wasn't in the mood for Christmas. On that day, he discovered that YouTube had removed more than 50 videos from his personal channel and labeled them "harmful or dangerous content. With more videos being deleted, Alex Saunders felt helpless. He said on twitter that he had just hired a new employee, that his wife and children needed to earn their own living, and that he had no way to complain about the videos being deleted.

In the regulatory climate, practitioners of the cryptographic world, which has yet to be properly named, have had a rough 2019. On the one hand, I am worried about being "stigmatized" and being disturbed by "rat excrement". On the other hand, I have to worry about being expelled and expelled from the platform of various giants and losing the last propaganda position.

Breaking through was extremely difficult.

O1 giant's pride and prejudice

And Alex Saunders also delete YouTube video and Canadian COINS preacher BTCSessions, currency analyst Sunny Decreate price, monetary programmers to Ivan on Tech, encryption monetary educator, Omar Bham, encryption, currency media founder Michael "Boxming Gu", etc., without exception, their works are related to encryption currency.

Hundreds of video situations in circles created quite a stir, more let bloggers are difficult to accept, not only their works were all deleted, they also received from YouTube stern warning letters, the letter said if they released a similar content again, their account will be permanently banned, and deleted as marked as most of the video and the nuggets news "the content of harmful or dangerous".

"The videos in this case were deleted by mistake. All the videos will be restored without any penalty for the deleted channel."

On December 27, Alex Saunders said that all 250 of his deleted videos had been recovered, but no one had contacted him to explain why. It is a false alarm, but there is no doubt that the crisis of confidence has become more acute.

As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Google, YouTube to some extent represents Google's attitude towards the industry. Vitalik, the founder of ethereum, also suggested that there might be a Google behind YouTube.

Similarly, on December 27th Metamask, a cryptocurrency asset wallet, suddenly tweeted that Google had removed its android app from the Google play store, claiming that it had violated Google's financial services policy of "prohibiting apps from mining cryptocurrency on devices". Metamask's team quickly appealed to Google to review its application, but was quickly dismissed.

Therefore, Metamask chief developer Dan Findlay said: "I sincerely hope that Google auditors honest admit their mistakes, but before the combination about encryption currency restrictions on youtube, this let me to Google on encryption of monetary policy, if we are to Google rely on monopoly and the wanton act to compromise, it is hard to create something better."

In fact this is not Metamask first encounter with Google from the shelves, as early as 2018 on July 25, Metamask browser plug-in version is Google online store removed, although after screening soon recovered in the shop list, but said Metamask team application doesn't have any email notification when the shelves, and after asking, Google's answer was: delete wrong operation.

History has always been surprisingly similar, and behind the repeated "misoperations" is actually the pride and prejudice displayed by Google.

Not only Google, but also apple. On August 9, 2018, more than 20,000 apps were deleted from apple's AppStore overnight. Cryptocurrency apps were also affected and several wallet apps were removed. Two months ago, apple revised the AppStore's regulations on cryptocurrencies, limiting the development of multiple types of cryptocurrency applications, including wallets, transactions, mining and icos.

Apple store on the application of the encryption currency control in China are particularly serious, even in strict accordance with the terms and conditions to submit application may not be able to greatly, practitioners have to by publishing "enterprise" and "TestFlight beta" way to circumvent the apple review is made on the application, but due to the informal online channels, "signature" problem such as "flash back" "application date" brings users a poor user experience.

On December 28, 2019, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on Reddit that apple was removing DApp from its AppStore and that Coinbase's mobile cryptocurrency Wallet, Coinbase Wallet, would remove the DApp browser to "comply with AppStore policy." Similarly, TokenPocket, a multi-link wallet service, removed its DApp browser from its apple APP earlier this year.

O2's Jack Dorsey's blue sky team

As the CEO of twitter and a longtime bitcoin enthusiast, Jack Dorsey probably understands the meaning of the blockchain and cryptocurrency industries better than most. In his days at the helm of twitter, he has learned the pitfalls of too centralised a platform.

On December 11th Jack Dorsey suddenly tweeted that he would fund a small, independent team of five "open source architects, engineers and designers" to begin exploring open, decentralised social media standards in the hope that twitter itself would benefit.

"Social media faces a number of serious challenges in the current environment," Dorsey said on twitter. Secondly, social media has gradually moved away from the basic logic of helping users publish and delete content, and started to make "intelligent recommendations" to users. In addition, social media often leads users to focus on controversial topics and violent content rather than positive information. Finally, Jack Dorsey said that blockchain technology provides an open, sustainable, governable and even token incentive model solution. Although there is still a lot of work to be done, the general framework has been formed.

  

Under the description of Jack Dorsey, this is a set of social media changes from 0 to 1, twitter didn't mean to control the whole project, but hope to be one of the great project, twitter hopes come into contact with the wider user information, and will give their recommendation algorithm to positive information, and the utopian project, the team name called by him "Bluesky (blue sky)".

After the initiative was launched, the topic caused a heated discussion, and a large number of Internet practitioners expressed support and affirmation for Jack Dorsey's idea. In the cryptocurrency industry, opinion leaders such as Vitalik, founder of eaeum, Brendan Blumer, CEO of block.one, zhao changpeng, founder of coin, sun yuchen, founder of wave field, pomp, founder of Morgan creek, Charles Hoskinson, founder of caldano, have all expressed their support.

Pomp, founder of Morgan creek, a cryptocurrency investment firm, called it a "great project" and Jack Dorsey happens to be the one with the reputation to push it.

Block. one CEO Brendan Blumer said that decentralized social media VOICE based on EOSIO has been in development for a long time and looks forward to working with the Bluesky team to advance it.

Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, said he was pleased to see twitter invest in protocols rather than platforms, which have struggled to grow, but which have good features for fair use, good behavior, and lower barriers to entry

Not only the cryptocurrency industry, but also some elites in traditional fields are also actively advising Jack Dorsey. The firefox team has expressed its goodwill, saying that it has invested heavily in exploring the free and open Internet over the past 15 years, hoping to help team blue sky. Neha Narula, director of cryptocurrency research at the Massachusetts institute of technology, provided Jack Dorsey with a 100-page report on "building decentralized social media". Tim Pastoor, founder of digital identity startup 2way, compared Jack Dorsey's approach to AT&T's 1947 grant to bell LABS, which produced the transistor, light-emitting diode, and solar cell.

Behind Jack Dorsey's call to action, people have long been dissatisfied with the monopoly giants' arbitrary infringement on users' interests, and eager to change the status quo. When people are tired of the unequal rights and obligations of the environment, leaving and rebuilding is an impeccable path.

The breakout battle of o3 encryption world

Jack Dorsey's Bluesky team is about to set sail, but the quest to decentralize social media has been going up and down for years.

Back in 2011, Bill Ottman founded Minds, an open source decentralized social network that aims to provide the world with a free, open source, sustainable social network beyond FaceBook. This seems to be in keeping with Jack Dorsey's vision of transparency, privacy and free speech. On the Minds platform, anyone is free to create and delete their own data and material. In Bill Ottman's view, open source systems will eventually become mainstream in the course of human development, just like wikipedia. Minds can be the last refuge for people when the government starts to control public opinion and impose regulatory pressure on centralised social media.

Founded in 2016, decentralized social media Steemit is perhaps the most popular social media block chain technology, and Minds for freedom of speech and resistance to review the launch of the original intention, Steemit is a driven by encryption monetary economic social networks, on its website, with four Chinese characters "far", is a reminder of the outstanding thought can be converted into tangible value.

On Steemit network, users also can publish any content and will not be deleted, but some Steemit own audit mechanism will limit the content of the spam on the website home page, if most people vote against one of the contents, the author of the weight will be reduced, continued spam content will make a "credit bankruptcy", the author even if he was still able to exercise the rights of any content, but no one will see them.

In addition to the platform based on graphic content, DTube tries to establish a decentralized video website by using the block chain system. Like Steemit platform, this website USES the cryptocurrency incentive system based on Steem main network, while IPFS decentralized storage system is used for photo and video storage.

Like other decentralized social media vision, DTube want to create a review, transparent and without permission of value network, in DTube website, won't appear on YouTube blogger was deliberately to delete video, video content entrepreneurs can put more energy on business rather than times to platform of regulation.

More than old decentralized social media platform, for the new project has been poured out, on June 1, 2019 blocks of chain and chain project EOS parent block. One june1 conference announced he was launching a Voice of decentralized social product, except with decentralized social platform usually features, Voice also introduced a concept of "UBI universal basic income", help each person can be a Voice in the chain of blocks.

Although the quest for a decentralised platform seems to have taken off, it is inherently problematic.

Under the economic incentive model of cryptocurrency, people's motivation to write articles and publish opinions is no longer pure. Plagiarism, manuscript editing and similar content are frequent. At the same time, due to the lack of strong control mechanism, the abuse of pornography, violence, advertising and other content also causes the project side to spend a lot of time and resources to solve; Moreover, due to the decentralized social media technology based on block chain, the first group of users are often block chain practitioners and users, which leads to block chain related content output ratio is much higher than that of the humanities, arts, life, etc, the platform into the high threshold and the point of cost and user growth is very slow, it is difficult to generate the user form the true social behavior.

In any case, the tide has turned and technology has given people more choices. Whether the encryption industry can break the barrier of the traditional world remains to be tested.

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