Blockchain or integration with the Internet, the monopoly will no longer exist

Recently, the friction between the “classical Internet” and the “modern blockchain” has continued.

In the past two years, the "Internet +", which is frequently shouting, seems to be a remnant of a distant era.

What is the relationship between the Internet and the blockchain in the future?

The Internet world that has been established for 20 years will be completely changed by the blockchain and will not exist again?

Will the wealth of the vested interests of the Internet be plundered and redistributed?

Many questions are unresolved, and the debates between the two sides are filled with smoke...

01 Monopolistic Internet Age

What kind of world is the Internet now?

"For the current format, we are extremely dissatisfied." The CEO of a head financial technology company is blunt, and the Internet has been completely monopolized by the giants.

BATJ, coupled with a new generation of giant TMD, each monopoly has almost monopolized all resources.

The current Internet world is the “flow pasture” of the giants.

All the people and companies are cattle and sheep on the pasture, and they will all be harvested by the giants.

"Can you think of it? The annual fee we pay to the giants is more than one billion, accounting for 80% of the company's expenses, or even higher." Mu Yan is not satisfied with this situation.

The emergence of the blockchain, the concept of "distributed" and "decentralized" advocated, is in the middle of the word.

There are not many opportunities for the Internet world to leave entrepreneurs.

The territory has been divided and the wreckage is few.

In fact, the essence of the Internet is a collection of networks that are connected by a series of protocols.

The core TCP/IP protocol group at the bottom is not mysterious, but long-term various agreements, competing with each other and eventually winning.

Originally, this set of agreements was also decentralized. Why did the Internet finally lead to the fate of monopoly?

"World history can be described in two sentences, that is, it must be separated for a long time, and it must be divided for a long time." The famous physicist and lifelong professor of Stanford University Zhang Shouqi studied the blockchain quite deeply.

After the emergence of the Internet, the information explosion, it is difficult for people to find their own needs from the complicated information - so search applications such as Google and Baidu began to appear.

Websites that are structured and reorganized have begun to appear. In addition to search, there are various portals and applications, and traffic starts to aggregate.

As a result, the fate of the Internet has inevitably moved toward "combination."

And Zhang Shouyi believes that it has reached a key node of "divide".

02 Subversion?

What kind of Internet world is the TCP/IP protocol group built?

Now, all the content on the network will be stored on the server according to the URL.

I send an address request to the server, and the service will help me guide the content stored at this address.

This is the HTTP protocol and the essence of the TCP/IP protocol suite.

It is this agreement that has overturned the way and efficiency of information flow over the past decade, bringing about the Internet revolution and, at the same time, bringing about monopoly.

In the blockchain circle, there has been an ambitious player trying to challenge the status of a centralized website.

This is IPFS.

This is a magical innovation, and also has a sci-fi name - InterPlanetary File System.

Founder Juan Benet took the name for the agreement, which is to use this protocol to save and transmit information when humans realize interstellar crossing.

How does it subvert the traditional Internet?

The IPFS protocol generates a hash value based on the contents of a file. This hash value is the unique name of the file.

Files are broken and distributed across many nodes. When reading, all nodes can react at the same time, so the reading speed is extremely fast.

Such distributed storage is naturally safer.

Unless you erase the contents of all nodes, the file will persist forever; and each node has fragments that cannot be swallowed or leaked.

It seems that IPFS really has many advantages over HTTP - faster and more secure.

The sexiest part is that this system completely broke the centralization.

Information can be transmitted point-to-point.

"People and people can return to a P2P (peer-to-peer) communication method through the blockchain." Zhang said.

The interstellar file system undoubtedly provides the prototype of this idea.

This system can also form a "self-ecological" system.

For example, each node can upload information. If the amount of information read and the amount of praise is higher, the corresponding reward can be obtained.

Therefore, in order to reward, everyone tries to provide more valuable and more information.

This is undoubtedly a gospel for writers.

We no longer need the charity of today's headlines and other giants to recommend the location to get traffic.

Juan Benet's ambition was too great. When he came up, he didn't want to integrate with the Internet, but he was thoroughly subverted.

The world does look a bit beautiful, but the road to the future is rugged and unimaginable.

The biggest resistance is undoubtedly from the supervision of various countries.

For supervision, it is only necessary to control the centralized website to basically control public opinion and information dissemination.

The spread of P2P will be completely out of control.

Such a network will be difficult to promote globally.

It is quite difficult to promote the first step of survival, and even if it is successful and smooth, it is not optimistic.

The disorder of information is likely to overwhelm the network environment.

The content that gets the highest clicks and spreads will definitely focus on the yellow gambling venom, which is caused by human nature.

Of course, I am afraid that some new network consensus will be needed in the later stage, and there is a certain punishment mechanism to enable this “self-eco” system to be implemented.

It can be seen that under the current circumstances, it is difficult to get through when it comes up.

03 Fusion?

"Between the blockchain and the Internet, it is unlikely to be a subversive relationship, but based on the overlay and upgrade on the Internet." Bochen founder and CEO, "blockchain: defining the future of new financial and economic patterns" author Zhang Jian told a blockchain.

The so-called superposition is to add a blockchain protocol on top of the Internet TCP/IP protocol to form a completely new network.

The biggest change that this brings to the Internet is mainly two aspects.

First of all, the irreparable modification and ownership of the information is guaranteed.

For example, when an article is generated, it has a "unique" signature, and no one can copy or steal it.

In the field of information transmission, this may be one of the biggest problems that the blockchain can solve.

Second, a set of "value" transmission systems began to emerge.

"The core of value is to reach a consensus." Zhang said.

The most attractive part of the blockchain is the establishment of a sophisticated "consensus system" through economics, cryptography, and mathematics.

For example, the emergence of Bitcoin, that is, all computers, are calculating a math problem, which is equivalent to solving the equation and finding an answer. The answer is a hash value.

Whoever calculates the fastest, whoever gets the bitcoin reward.

"Although it seems to be wasting some of the energy of the surrounding world, it has actually gained a more valuable wealth, that is, consensus." Zhang Shouqi believes that reaching consensus and making disorderly orderly is a cost. Lower program.

Blockchain and Token (China, like to translate into tokens, can refer to "Token, is a greater invention than blockchain?"), and will produce more sexy power.

Everything is electronic, and trading, cutting, value and wealth on the blockchain will be greatly enriched.

Therefore, Zhang Jian once said that jumping out of the era of our survival, from the scale of the development of a larger human history, the birth of the Internet and the blockchain is only a short time difference of several decades.

"For future archaeologists, it is impossible to say that humans have invented efficient information transmission networks and information transmission networks at the same time." Zhang Jian said.

That is, blockchain and Internet overlays will solve two puzzles, the ownership of information and the transmission of value.

04 Monopoly breaks

Going back to the topic that the Internet world is monopolized by giants, can this problem be resolved after the integration of the two sides?

The answer is yes.

In essence, the difference in the underlying logic of the two sets of protocols will create a completely different era.

The Internet today is actually a free system.

The TCP/IP protocol has built a highway, but there is no toll station.

For example, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web, laid the foundation for the distribution of Internet content, but he was not honored to make a lot of money from his invention.

Let's look at the rise of the giants, such as the ant jin empire, built on Ma Yun's big data architecture.

However, note that the giants used the data we generated to build their own empire, but, as data providers, do we enjoy our value return?

not at all.

The giants have risen rapidly and even ruled our lives.

This is the cruel reality of the Internet age. The people who paved the way did not earn money. The people who provided the numbers did not enjoy the benefits, but the above application became a giant.

The protocol for blockchains is quite different.

The various blockchain underlying agreements and public chains have great discourse power. Instead of providing free roads, they have built “toll stations”.

The most obvious example is Ethereum.

For various projects based on the Ethereum agreement, as long as the "highway" of the ether is used, it is necessary to pay the "toll station".

The market value of the infrastructure of Ethereum will rise due to the increase in traffic.

Second, the application layer project of the future blockchain cannot have ownership of user data.

Every time the user calls the data, they need to "pay" the user.

That is to say, the underlying agreement for paving the road in the future will become a giant through the “toll station” fee; the data provider will also receive a return, and the developer will not be dominant, and it may only become a highway. Refueling service station.

At this time, the monopoly of the Internet era will be broken.

In the future, the blockchain "protocol" itself can support the market value of 100 billion.

Of course, in the field of blockchain, there will not be only one “agreement”, and corresponding agreements will appear in various industries and fields.

We call it the "public chain."

The debate between the classical Internet and the modern blockchain is fierce. In fact, the two are not one or the other.

It is not a substitute and a subversion, but a fusion and promotion.

The future has come, but the road to the future is probably very rugged.