I guess it's no secret I've been spending a lot of time learning about Link and their projects.
Link is more like a company with a token like a stock rather than a cryptocurrency and they run it like a business. Their growth plan is through partnerships and providing services to various blockchain projects.
They have a plan for revenue, and I am extremely excited to hear more about how they will approach the social media side.
From the article, from here down:
Revolution Populi, a social network led by David Gelernter — a futurist and a distributed computing pioneer — is integrating Chainlink data oracles.
Revolution Populi is trying to displace Facebook by creating a social network where users can post and share information about their lives, “but advertisers pay them, not Facebook.” The network is just the first of many distributed apps that the company plans to release in the near future.
A futurist who predicted social networks and became a Unabomber target
The idea in itself does not sound novel, as there have been quite a few projects in the crypto space that have tried to return data ownership to users. However, perhaps the most interesting aspect of the project is that Gelernter serves as a chief visionary officer.
Gelernter first made a name for himself in the 1980s through his contributions to the field of parallel computing. Later, in 1991, he published the book Mirror Worlds, which foreshadowed the development of the World Wide Web, including the social networking phenomenon. The acclaim likely attracted the unwanted attention of Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber. On June 24, 1993, Gelernter was severely injured when opening a package filled with explosives.
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