Ethereum-Backed Micropayments Could Help Us Live Without Facebook and Google Spying
Dr. Aron Fischer of Swarm and Colony explains how Ethereum-backed micropayments will free us from the control of Facebook and Google. He also talks about the implications of Ethereum on society in an interview shot at the Devcon 2 conference last September. Several new projects are being developed on the Ethereum platform. They have the potential to reach the mass market sooner than most users could ever imagine. Fischer says in the video: “The reason we ended up where we are today is because of a lack of micropayments. The reason that companies like Google and Facebook spend so much time....
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