Blockchain is a decentralized technology, but the goal of decentralized technology is not decentralization, but to allow individuals to freely choose centers, accelerating the decline of decaying centers and the rise of healthy centers. Human society relies on centers to operate, and monopolistic and corrupt centers dumb down, control, and exploit their believers. When everyone can freely choose centers, benign competition becomes possible. The future society is monopolistic and non-corrupt, extremely centralized, and at the same time takes into account the individual interests of everyone.
Before the development of artificial intelligence AI assistants matures, blockchain only has a few mature applications, such as cryptocurrency. The next era of the AI era is the era of blockchain.
Blockchain solves the problem of trust. The new form of trust will reconstruct social relationships and change the way of life for everyone. The development sequence of blockchain. Only when the underlying infrastructure is perfected and matured can the next level mature. Currently, applications exist at various levels, but they cannot be popularized globally because the underlying foundation is not strong enough.
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The underlying layer of blockchain should be completely free communication. Any individual can run nodes and communicate at low cost. Without the circulation of information across firewalls, everything is virtual, and individuals cannot actively choose healthy centers, but can only passively accept the exploitation of decaying centers. Once decentralized scientific Internet software matures, communication between people becomes unimpeded. Communication is the basis of trust.
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Transmission of trust. Complete freedom brings destructive dangers. Even if people are completely unimpeded in linking with each other, how can trust be obtained? The relationship between people is like a huge network. Trust can be transmitted through this network, and a friend of a friend is also a friend. Nodes with greater weight are trust centers.
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Decentralized app store. Anyone can publish their own applications, and downloading applications is unimpeded. Under the mechanism of the trust network, conservatives can only download trusted applications, thereby reducing filtering costs. More importantly, this maintains the interests of consumers and software vendors, eliminating high channel fees. The commission earned by domestic game channel operators has reached a terrifying 50%. The excessive profits earned by intermediaries are too much.
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Various decentralized platforms. Based on the decentralized app store, platforms such as ride-hailing, food delivery, shopping, renting, game forums, etc. can all be built using decentralized technology. Once everyone is accustomed to using decentralized app stores to maintain their own interests, it becomes difficult for monopolistic centers to become corrupt. Even in decentralized platforms, monopolies can still exist. For example, a decentralized food delivery trust evaluation node, because it provides the best service and almost everyone uses its service, it can still achieve dominance. However, in a decentralized software platform, once it starts to become corrupt, it will be quickly eliminated by other better nodes. The cost for users to choose new nodes is very low. Monopoly is possible, but corruption is easy to lead to extinction.
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Completely decentralized society. Anything between people can be uploaded to the blockchain. You can determine someone's trustworthiness through various trust events between people. The amount of data involved is huge and obviously cannot be analyzed by individuals. Therefore, it must be completed by AI assistants.
Scenario:
In a transaction, you may encounter the following situation. You plan to buy a small asteroid from Zhang San. Zhang San is a good friend of your father, and your father often buys planets from him. But one of your good friends has uploaded a record saying that he was deceived when buying a planet from Zhang San. The AI assistant gives you a trust rating of 70% for Zhang San based on the interpersonal network, and the overall trust rating of other unfamiliar asteroid sellers is not much higher than this. So you are very conflicted.
Your trust rating for your wife is 100%, your wife's trust rating for her best friend is 100%, and her best friend gave a good review of Li Si's spicy hot pot. So you can probably trust this hot pot restaurant.
At this stage, the popularization level of blockchain is too low, so it is very easy for blockchain to be used for fraud. Coupled with the lack of support from governments around the world, the development of blockchain will be slow. It will not enter the public's view in a short period of time.