I'm holding out for some fully decentralized Maelstrom email service.
"For years now, companies have been forced to choose between cumbersome, expensive Virtual Data Rooms and decentralized, unsecure email to manage their complex transactions," Jackson said in the funding press release.
We can, and should, decentralize our email, our messaging, our social networks.
It would a huge benefit to society if we can get with social networking to where we are with email today: it is fundamentally decentralized with nobody controlling who can email whom about what, anyone can use email essentially for free, there are open source and commercial implementations available and third parties are offering value added services.
This will include a "sovereign identity" protocol, a social network, a decentralized exchange which includes peer-to-peer fiat-to-crypto, data storage, maybe even email — all decentralized, all relatively hard to use, but adopted by a tiny hardcore minority.
That's less practical for email, which by its very nature is decentralized.
On Datum, the decentralized data market, users earn between $0.50 and $5 in DAT tokens for each promotional email they opt to open, according to Roger Haenni, the company's CEO, though he did not share the details of how earnings are calculated.
How is communicating with our president that she had decentralized the current devaluation of Black life in America in a campus-wide email bullying her?
As Ray wrote to me in an email, "The main reason I believe that AI will be beneficial is that it will be decentralized and widely distributed as it is today.
Policing, however, remains decentralized.
