The Filecoin Foundation is an organization responsible for the overall governance of Filecoin and will further support the development of the community and ecosystem. The mission of the Filecoin Distributed Web Foundation (FFDW) is to manage the development of open source software and open protocols to ensure the preservation of mankind's most important information. We can learn about Filecoin Foundation and Filecoin Distributed Web Foundation from the following dialogue.
Marta: Rainey, why use a decentralized network to perform your tasks?
Rainey Reitman is a board member of FFDW. She is an outstanding civil rights activist, including work at the Press Freedom Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Most of her work is concentrated on decentralized networks.
The reason why I am attracted to projects in the decentralized network is because I see that centralized networks are frustrating users every day. I think that it is not what we need to abuse the terms of service when we visit the website and build a profitable network at the expense of consumer choice and consumer privacy. Instead, we must consider the digital experience brought about by creating an untrusted technology monopoly.
In the short term, decentralized alternatives can provide shelter for users who wish to withdraw from dealing with monopolistic technology companies. In the long run, market alternatives can be created to promote the entire industry to respond faster to the actual needs of users. I think Filecoin is an important part of the decentralized tool ecosystem, which is exploring and designing a better digital future. Our foundation is to guide Filecoin to fulfill its mission of serving humanity and to support a larger decentralized network.
Marta: Sheila, how do you see the impact of blockchain and distributed ledger technology on the world?
Sheila Warren is the head of blockchain and DLT at the World Economic Forum.
When no one talks about blockchain technology anymore, we will know that we have "arrived". This becomes self-explanatory when every technology stack integrates the blockchain at some point. When everything from storage to payment is decentralized, we will build and innovate all content based on the basic assumption of decentralization.
The important thing is that we do need a cultural change. People need to realize that peer-to-peer has many advantages. Whenever you have an intermediary, you are giving them money, but you also give them power. We can use power in the form of control, check, or many other verbs. Removing these intermediaries can unleash tremendous power. However, we still haven't seen the cultural understanding that these intermediaries have been doing.
One thing we hope is that this effort of Filecoin will become global, and we believe it needs to be more globalized and internationalized.
Marta: The growth of Ethreum is shocking. How does the Filecoin Foundation build an ecosystem and gain widespread adoption like Ethereum?
Joe Lubin serves as an advisor to the Filecoin Foundation. Joe Lubin is the co-founder of Ethereum and the founder and CEO of ConsenSys.
Many people in our ecosystem are building decentralized protocols, and their common view is that these protocols will be linked and interoperable. Together, these agreements will form an increasingly decentralized Internet and World Wide Web. Since its inception, ConsenSys has been close to the Protocol Labs project. There are profound similarities between the Ethereum ecosystem and the ecosystem of Protocol Labs. So far, Protocol Labs has done an excellent job. In order to continue to be an important part of the decentralized network architecture, what they need to do is to consider the community, cryptoeconomics, marketing, smart and philosophical talent, and ecosystem investment.
It is also important to consider companies in addition to the crowd facing cryptocurrencies. It is important to build developer tools for startups-for revolutionaries. However, you also need to make the technology comfortable and easy to understand for the enterprise (evolutionary).
Marta: How does a decentralized network solve the important problem you are dealing with?
Danny O'Brien is a consultant for FFDW. He is an outstanding international activist in online freedom of speech and privacy protection. He is engaged in strategic work at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and is a founding member of the British Open Rights Organization.
The issues that we are dealing with at EFF and other civil rights organizations dealing with the Internet have become increasingly global issues. They are no longer restricted to a specific country or region. Therefore, we are now studying solutions that can be expanded to a global scale. The lesson of the past few years is that when you are dealing with civil liberties and human rights on a global scale, any centralized solution cannot actually scale. I am interested in decentralized networks and how to decentralize them not only technically but also geographically, and support the diversity of people who now live in the digital world.
Marta: What is the current state of blockchain policy and what should our policy goals be?
Kristin Smith is the executive director of the Blockchain Association, a leading industry association dedicated to blockchain policy.
Looking at the encryption policy framework in a broad sense, we do not have a national framework on how to deal with blockchain and cryptocurrency. We face challenges in defining different types of cryptocurrencies, and due to the lack of definitions, we have a lot of uncertainty as to what regulations we apply and when. We do have some bright spots. Congress has put forward some very thoughtful legislative proposals, but we still have a lot of work to do.
I think the policy goals are well known. We need to figure out how to classify different types of cryptocurrencies. We need to know the tax policy. We need to clarify how to deal with the crypto market and how to ensure the integrity of the crypto market.
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Other members of the Filecoin Foundation and FFDW member groups.
The members of the Filecoin Foundation include:
Board of Directors: Brain Behlendorf, Marta Belcher, Rainey Reitman
顾问：Alex Feerst，Georgia Quinn，Meredith Barge，Sheila Warren，Joe Lubin，Sandra Ro，Katie Biber，Kristin Smith
Managers: Clara Tsao, Megan Kliman
Employee: Philipp Banhardt
Investors who want to learn more about IPFS and Filecoin can follow the official website of the IPFS China Community: http://ipfs.cn