t-minus 10 mins #Dfinity event where two of the giants of our industry take stage, my mentor and former boss @ethereumJoseph and founder of the Internet Computer and buddy @dominic_w

https://www.forbes.com/connect/event/trillion-dollar-opportunity/

@DelRayMan sporting a suave yet powerful beard

"in the early days of Twitter there was a lot more access to their API's and we saw a lot of great building in all of that but they decided to close down much of that access"

"public open blockchains like #dfinity and #ethereum could address all of that"

"In 2011, I had a #bitcoin moment when I read #SatoshiNakamoto's white paper, I realized we had this technology that could enable us to build this alternative technology and system"

"governments and companies will evolve with the advent of the open Internet"

"small companies can participate with full economic and governance sovereignty and much more granular agency" - Joe Lubin

Cindy Cohn from EFF describing the history of #cryptography including when crypto was on the same level of military secrecy as nuclear munitions and surface to air missiles

Jim, the executive director of the @linuxfoundation defining the Linux kernel and how it is that it powers so much of the Internet

"Right now, encryption is under threat. There is a fight going on in Congress where your voice is really needed because they think encryption is something bad guys use to plan heists" executive director of @EFF

"I think what we need to do is make the #bigtech giants not so giant and have them as nodes on our shared Open Internet" - Cindy Cohn, executive director EFF

next up @dominic_w "in 2013 #Bitcoin was pretty much everything and I thought about creating a gaming crypto currency which got me looking at proof of stake systems at the time"

"The Internet Computer is built using a novel #blockchain that runs at web speed, has unbounded capacity and has a flexible smart contract framework"

"we want people to abandon building using traditional databases and instead use smart contracts on a public compute platform"

"when you build using traditional IT, you're nearly always building some kind of Rube Goldberg machine" - Dom Williams

"90% of IT operation costs break down to completely unnecessary complexity costs. The Internet Computer simplifies and reduces those costs" - Dom Williams

"We are competing against the whole stack. We want people build by writing smart contracts and pushing them to the Internet Computer" - @dominic_w

"Google started w/ the simple moto of 'don't be evil' and that has fallen into disrepute these days"

"the recent change social media has made to altering the nature of democracy by weaponizing AI is fundamentally negative" - Brad Templeton

"Facebook was created to do interesting things w/ your data which has created perverse incentives pushing the Internet toward the wishes of advertisers and not user" - Brad Templeton

"at the end of the day, Google is the closest we've ever come to an omnipotent being. You ask it a question and it magically gives you an answer, yet we have virtually zero transparency into how it arrives at those answers" - Alan Emtage

closing remarks "there's a number of key forces and headwinds that will push against decentralization because monopolization is easier to scale"

end of the show, great job everyone ... and now we can get back to our regularly scheduled programe consisting of shit posts in Telegram groups about when $ICP genesis tokens will launch