Zion Hopes To Decentralize Social Media With Bitcoin’s Lightning Network
The founder of Bitcoin-based social media network Zion discusses censorship, Lightning nodes and the creator economy.Recently, I spoke with Justin Rezvani, the founder of Zion, a decentralized, open-source, utility-based social media protocol that is built on top of Bitcoin.The conversation focused primarily around why Zion is necessary, rather than what Zion is, and I found that to be telling about the larger intentions for the project. The focus was less about selling a product and making a bottom line, and more about the necessity of decentralizing social media as we currently know it,....
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