It seems only two small groups of people can recognize the future working out for the Internet — venture capitalists and blockchain activists. The rest users and vendors are still deeply immersed in web 2.0 with dominating mobile paradigm. Millions of conventional apps and billions of HTTP-based websites compose a tough shell covering the contemporary Web. The green shoots of new types of the decentralized interactions appear sporadically here and there in the form of DApps, cryptocoins, and blockchain platforms. Nevertheless, libertarian values such as direct democracy, self-governance, and true decentralization remain largely the topics of fruitless discussions and philosophical speculations beyond the online chats and blogging platforms.
A new wind of Ethereum blows offline hardly ever. The majority of those blockchain projects that appear mainly in the form of landing pages (at best) and whitepapers (typically) focus on various online activities having almost nothing common with the real world outside of the Internet. Probably, shifting blockchain paradigm offline is a business of inveterate dreamers and infantile romantics (however, don’t tell me that Satoshi Nakamoto and Vitalik Buterin are total pragmatists).
Let’s keep it that way. I’m sure, District0x Network is full of people who are able to recognize opportunities beyond any mental cliché, even if it is a blockchain cliché.
Our B-UMBRELLA Security Sharing Service project (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3G6GO7V7fnkQkxLV1p0TjJJZGs/view) was prepared in a hurry. That’s how it goes when an idea haunts squealing somewhere in subcortex day and night. This is a raw, green, and immature description of how we see an online security service DApp. Despite the exuberant “Whitepaper” type of the document (we were following a fancy blockchain projects’ technique defying it as a whitepaper, actually), our primary target was to convey the DApp’s core idea to the Internet community. Any professional economist, programmer, and even proofreader have not touched this text yet. This is hardly important and necessary at the current stage, however. What really important for us now is to get as much feedback from the “netizens” as possible. Especially we rely on the opinion of this Community (https://blog.district0x.io/district0x-community-advisor-program-c4e0b15b1243).
So, everyone who feels that security safeguarding issues can be solved via blockchain is invited to give us some good advice. Decentralization and blockchain romantics are always welcome!
P.S. Even if the project is destined to end up in nothing, we believe that just the discourse causes phenomena. And that means our idea makes sense anyhow…