Shifting the discussion over to this thread.
There are plenty of people who care about online privacy (maybe 40% in Europe) a smaller percentage who do any thing meaningful about it (maybe 15%) and a tiny number who are looking at technical solutions beyond DuckDuckGo and ad blockers. I think a lot of people working on decentralized tech realise that privacy/security alone isn’t going to provide the tipping point (Maidsafe have been saying that for some time). People have heard that message now and either accept it or ignore it. What’s needed is something new that can’t be done on the clearnet and history shows that will probably be around entertainment, personalisation or porn. The $6 billion question is what that will be - ideas on a postcard please. My personal hunch is that it’ll be something rooted in identity.
I appreciate David Rosenthal’s sober take on the challenge of beating the incumbents (he’s very very down on cryptos and micropayments, coming at it from a more traditional angle) DSHR's Blog: What Does The Decentralized Web Need?
On the marketing side I think Maidsafe are doing much better in producing stuff for techies now - the Parsec explanations are excellent. I wonder if we could do something completely non-techie to attract the attention of the uninterested masses? Here’s a Microsoft blockchain explainer that barely mentions hashing, blocks, nodes, PoW, bitcoin or any of that stuff, just saying that when you have to deal with evil aliens it’s best not to rely on trust - which is their simple message to businesses with supply chains.
