- based on 'client-server' model
- Internet predominantly Centralized
- billions of Users (clients) access millions of web sites (servers)
- Users have only 1 directional (outward only) way of communication
- Users subjected to - government surveillance, censorship, termination of access
- Blockchains are DINO - decentralized in name only
- Most successful only in value store and transfer
- No direct User to User communication - one User writes to blockchain and other Users read from blockchain
- Centralization of successful blockchains
- Users still have only 1 directional way of communication
- Users subjected to 'paying rent' for every transaction
- direct User to User communication
- 2 directional (outward + inward) communication
- enables radically different way of using internet
- decentralized search, messaging, computing