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 trusters. When everyone can freely choose centers, benign competition becomes possible. The future society is monopolistic and non-corrupt, extremely centralized, while considering the individual interests of each person.
Before the development of AI assistants matures, blockchain only has a few mature applications, such as cryptocurrencies. The next era of the AI age 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, there are applications 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 becomes mature, 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 there is unimpeded connection between people, 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 suppliers, eliminating high channel fees. The commission taken by domestic game channel distributors has reached a terrifying 50%. Intermediaries earn excessive profits.
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Various decentralized platforms. Based on the decentralized app store, there are ride-hailing platforms, food delivery platforms, shopping platforms, rental platforms, game forums, etc. They 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 likely 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 done 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 level of 70% for Zhang San based on the interpersonal relationship network, and the overall trust level of other unfamiliar asteroid sellers is not much higher than this. So you are very conflicted.
Your trust level for your wife is 100%, your wife's trust level for her best friend is 100%, and her best friend has given a good review for Li Si's spicy hot pot. So you can probably trust this hot pot restaurant.
Currently, the level of popularization 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.