The Redecentralized Web
Muneeb Ali, co-founder and CEO of Blockstack, a decentralized computing network, joins Azeem Azhar to discuss rebuilding the internet to give control back to users.
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
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Show Notes
Data monopolies and abuses of privacy are only some of the flaws of Web 2.0. Muneeb Ali, co-founder and CEO of Blockstack, tells Azeem Azhar how the emerging Web 3.0 solves these challenges and gives users more control over their digital existence.
In this conversation, they discuss:
- Why property rights and privacy are intimately linked.
- The emergence of a novel app ecosystem on the new internet.
- The role of the new crypto economy in the transformation of the internet.
Further reading:
- “Tech Thinks It Has a Fix for the Problem it Created: Blockchain” (The New York Times, 2018)
- “The Emergence of Web 3.0” (Hackernoon, 2019)
- “Can’t Be Evil vs. Don’t Be Evil” (Exponential View newsletter, 2020)
- “Beyond Digital Gold” (Exponential View newsletter, 2020)
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