{"id":73662,"date":"2017-11-04T13:02:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T20:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/supporting-a-decentralized-uncensored-internet-for-every-person-on-the-planet"},"modified":"2017-11-04T13:02:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T20:02:30","slug":"supporting-a-decentralized-uncensored-internet-for-every-person-on-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/supporting-a-decentralized-uncensored-internet-for-every-person-on-the-planet","title":{"rendered":"Supporting a decentralized, uncensored Internet for every person on the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"

What makes a better Internet possible? At Orchid Labs<\/a>, our goal is to ensure that every person on Earth can have access to an open, decentralized, and uncensored Internet. We believe a better Internet is one that isn\u2019t controlled by the few, but open to all.<\/p>\n

Currently, Internet access for the majority of the people on Earth is censored and monitored. Because of this, many Internet users are blocked from freely communicating, collaborating, and accessing information. The current centralized system, which limits our ability to communicate and learn \u2014 while also harvesting and selling our personal data \u2014 is far from the full potential of what the internet could be and strays from the original intention of its creators.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why we\u2019ve launched the Orchid Protocol, an open-source overlay network that uses excess bandwidth on top of the existing Internet to ensure that people \u2014 no matter where they live on our planet \u2014 can have unrestricted access to information and collaboration. Orchid\u2019s protocol combines surplus bandwidth, state-of-the-art encryption, and a decentralized infrastructure enabling any Internet user to participate and exchange bandwidth for payment in peer-to-peer transactions using Orchid tokens on the Ethereum blockchain.<\/p>\n

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What makes a better Internet possible? At Orchid Labs, our goal is to ensure that every person on Earth can have access to an open, decentralized, and uncensored Internet. We believe a better Internet is one that isn\u2019t controlled by the few, but open to all. Currently, Internet access for the majority of the people [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1761,1625,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies","category-encryption","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}