In early 2021, WhatsApp announced an updated privacy policy requiring users to accept that their account details, phone number, metadata, financial transactions, log reports, location, device identifiers, and IP addresses will be shared with Facebook.
Users were told to accept the new policy or risk losing access to their account. Amid the ensuing controversy, the ultimatum changed: if users don’t comply, the messaging app will now gradually degrade in service until it stops operating entirely.
This is why 2 UK-based IC developers are building OpenChat, a decentralized messaging service that functions much like existing messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Signal, with a key difference being that OpenChat runs end-to-end on a blockchain, the Internet Computer.
OpenChat will become an open internet service through tokenization on the Internet Computer, which means the dapp will be decentralized and governed entirely by the community — no company will be tracking and selling your data.
Try it out — currently in alpha.
Users are like: Onboarding process for new users seems to be a bit complicated. Especially if one isn’t tech savvy.
Dominic Williams is the Founder, President and Chief Scientist of the DFINITY Foundation and Internet Computer project.
Dominic Williams “Nothing will bring me greater pleasure than to see the two networks integrated, in a manner that will add enormous value to both, and rejoin the starting point of DFINITY— and that is exactly what we are going to do.”
“Ethereum x Internet Computer = The greatest possible force multiplier ∞ Plans for direct integration.”
For those who are new to ICP, The source code of 3 primary components is live: replica, node manager, and NNS canisters.
The community will now be able to build the code and verify that it derives to the same binary image that is referenced in upgrade proposals published via the Network Nervous System (NNS).
All code for the Internet Computer is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, except for a few components licensed under the Internet Computer Community Source License and Internet Computer Shared Community Source License.
It is going to be of help to be a part of growing community of entrepreneurs and developers in the community.
IC Drive is a secure-by-default storage application being built on the Internet Computer. It offers users a decentralized alternate to current Web 2 storage services like Dropbox and Google Drive. They claim this is only possible with Internet Computer.
Internet Computer Network happened with Ethereum “World Computer” as the inspiration. ICP claim they are friends of Ethereum. ICP is not an Ethereum Killer.
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