How Decentralized Can We Get in The Modern World?

Amy Tom (a new voice on the podcast and a Hacker Noon editor!) is joined by Sharmini Ravindran, the CMO at Mysterium Network. They discuss achieving anonymity from the modern Internet, incentivizing peer-to-peer networks on a global scale to improve personal privacy and data control, and the humanitarian aspects of Internet accessibility. In this episode, Amy and Sharmini chat about: Whether true decentralization from the modern Internet is possible or not (20:00) The shift towards distributed permissionless peer-peer networks (03:45) VPN nodes that allow anonymous bandwidth sharing between peers (13:25) The humanitarian impact of the Internet and what happens when control is taken away from the user (27:00) The varying levels of control placed upon the Internet in different countries (11:15, 22:30) Follow Sharmini & Mysterium Networks: You can visit Mysterium Network's Website at mysterium.network You can follow Sharmini on Twitter at @the_sharmini