This lightning talks depicts 7 areas of decentralization that I currently find interesting. Includes tons of links to articles and a closing slide with pointers to resources that you'll want to checkout to get started writing decentralized apps.
3. Why Bitcoin is the largest Ponzi
scheme in human history
Bitcoin is a ‘dangerous
speculative bubble,’ Yale expert
says
Bitcoin Is Ridiculous.Blockchain Is Dangerous
You Do Not Need Blockchain: Eight Popular
Use Cases And Why They Do Not Work
Here's Why You Don't
Need Blockchain
7. 1. Money & Currency
crypto trading & Decentralized Finance Products (DeFi)
payment transactions
simple, transparent, international
super fast: Lightning network / Raiden
crowd funding, ICOs
3rd world micro payments, credits and banking systems
Stable Coins (DAI, Libra)
8. There are poor ideas,
bad ones and
Facebook's Libra
The Real Threat From
Facebook's Libra Coin
Facebook’s LibraCryptocurrency: Bad for
Privacy, Bad for
CompetitionWhy Facebook’s Libra
Cryptocurrency Will Be
ad For Everyone
Why Facebook’s New
Libra Coin is Good — and
Really Bad — for the
World
9. 2. Data
unlock data silos (e.g. Spotify)
decouple data sources from data sinks
create new value chains on data
near realtime, public data distribution
earn tokens for data ingestion
let others make sense of your data
see what Spotify saved about you...
… and only they can utilize! @stadolf
10. 3. Identity
maintain your very own self sovereign identity
let others prove identity fragments by verifiable claims
works across ledgers (DID)
get rid of centralized traceable user profiles
eliminate need for password authentication
only disclose data that’s mandatory for a use case
11. 4. Assets & Ownership
ERC721 / Non fungible tokens (NFT)
proof of ownership
real estate, fine arts, concert tickets, diamonds
IoT: digital twins
ticket markets / maximum price regulations
trading of unique crypto assets
“everything that you consider paying for
has a price and therefore a value”
@stadolf
12. 5. Computation
monetize idling CPUs
perfect for “serverless” computing / FaaS
earn tokens for offering computing resources
spend tokens for using resources
perform computation on encrypted data (!)
@stadolf
13. 6. Organizations
decentralized autonomous organizations (“DAOs”)
organizational transparence
minimal costs of governance
unstoppable (not even by Putin, Erdogan or Trump!)
rules are set by token holder’s votes, stakes and reputation
+ networks of DAOs can control each other
= decentralized jurisdiction (Aragon Court just out!)
@stadolf
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15. 7. Society
vote in public elections with your own identity
include people’s opinion on governments’ decisions
move public infrastructure into trusted, uncompromisable networks
healthcare, transport, insurances, ecology, public real estate,...
develop independent solutions
faster, better UX, network effects!
utilize open governmental data
@stadolf
20. Getting started
no need to deeply understand “crypto” or “consensus”
everything meaningful is built on Ethereum smart contracts
+ install Metamask, lookup OpenZeppelin, Solidity, ERC20/721
most things only require frontend skills / Javascript!
understand decentralized storage (and Oracles)
+ IPFS, Arweave, StorJ, Chainlink
earn Open Source bounties on Gitcoin
consider starting with an “out of the box” solution (Blockstack, 3box)
see what’s there: https://www.stateofthedapps.com/ /
https://app.co/