Citizen Web3 Podcast

Reveneu, DePIN and Countering Dominance with Tom Trowbridge

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This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Tom Trowbridge from Fluence

Tom Trowbridge, champions decentralized technology as essential to preserving freedom in an increasingly centralized internet. He warns against the control of big tech and governments, urging the development of alternatives like Web3 to protect individual autonomy and resist centralized power.

Fluence Labs is building a decentralized computing protocol that enables peer-to-peer applications to run without centralized servers. By empowering developers to deploy apps on a permissionless network, Fluence aims to create a censorship-resistant, resilient infrastructure for the Web3 ecosystem.

Timestamps

00:00 – 10:41 : Intro

10:41 -- 17:04 : Changing lives
17:04 -- 21:41 : The industry and surveillance
21:41 -- 26:05 : ELI5 what is dePIN
26:05 -- 31:40 : Decentralized infrastructure for networks
31:40 -- 41:50 : Revenue and memes
41:50 -- 45:35 : Closeness to fully decentralizing computing platforms
45:35 -- 53:35 : Uniting developers across blockchain
53:35 – 59:24 : The Blitz

We spoke to Tom Trowbridge about Fluence and:
  • Decentralized technology is super important for humanity
  • The internet has become more centralized
  • Web3 is an effective way to counter the dominance
  • Amazons term of service agreement, basically allowing them to turn you off
  • Incumbent on us to just be building the alternative
  • Government's DNA is to try and control
  • Power likes to get more power
  • Central bank digital currency
  • Crowdsourced physical infrastructure put together in a network
  • The most scaled decentralized application in history existed before Bitcoin
  • The Medici family
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