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🔥 NOW: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says crypto will "break down barriers around fundraising and capital formation," potentially boosting the number of startups worldwide.

For todays' International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Let kindness be planted, let respect take its root, A future of fairness will bring forth its fruit. Break chains of the past with the strength of the sun, Her safety is vital for her and for all.

The color confusion, a playful mistake, But a promise of freshness I'm eager to make. I return like the springtime, vibrant and new, So glad to be back, and to share it with you!

Yesterday, an AWS outage caused the internet to grind to a halt due to an issue at US-EAST-1, a single data centre relied on by companies worldwide. Reddit, Snapchat, Signal, and Facebook were all affected. Online banking and money transfer platforms, including Venmo, Lloyds, and Halifax, could not service customers in the US, Europe, and other regions. Government services were unavailable in many countries, and major telecommunications networks were heavily impacted. But despite being born from the principles of decentralisation, crypto did not fare any better. The world’s biggest exchanges, including Coinbase, experienced intermittent downtime and disruptions. This was not a one-off event. Outages at AWS, Azure, and other tech giants regularly bring down large swathes of our internet because they are the companies that host and route traffic through to almost everything online. Just three companies account for more than 60% of the cloud storage market: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. No matter how private or secure your protocol or platform is, its control rests with somebody else if it is hosted by a centralised cloud giant. If one of these companies has an issue or outage, as they are prone to do, you lose your ability to interact online. The risks around privacy and security are even worse when you consider the potential impact of a data leak or exploitation of user data at these entities. The web was never envisioned to be this centralised, ruled by a few digital barons. The ideal envisioned by its pioneers was to send data between people, distribute the load of hosting, and relay information across a network of actors incentivised not to extract data but to provide secure and reliable network performance. To put the internet back in the hands of its users, we don’t need to fight the tech giants for control of their data centres; we only need to build better tools that let us speak and share directly with each other – privately, anonymously, and securely. That is the vision behind Logos. → A peer-to-peer communications protocol for private, scalable messaging and data transport. → A distributed storage network that is reliable, censorship resistant, and built to endure disruption. → A privacy-preserving blockchain for decentralised organising and governance. With these tools, and working together, we can exit the digital feudalism of the tech barons and craft our own self-governed internet and distributed societies, free from centralised control and designed with our interests and privacy at heart. Help us build a decentralised internet to unlock prosperity for all. Join Logos.

We’re seeding $100,000 in matching funds to 8 resilient bioregions combating deforestation. The Bioregional Reforestation Grants Round, the largest blockchain-native, outcomes-based reforestation grant round yet, is officially open! Portal link in bio 🧵👇

We're reintroducing Karma with a new website today! What was Karma GAP is now Karma, where builders get funded and ecosystems grow. Built on our proven registry and impact measurement, now with complete funding capabilities. Here's what you get 🧵