During the Filecoin launch week, the Filecoin team held a panel discussion called "Meet the Filecoin Foundation" on the last day.
This conference provided an opportunity for event participants to listen to the opinions of members of the Filecoin Foundation and Filecoin Distributed Web Foundation (FFDW). The following are the key points of the expert panel led by Marta Belcher, the external legal counsel of Protocol Labs and the Chairman of the Board of the Filecoin Foundation.
The Filecoin Foundation is an organization responsible for the overall governance of Filecoin. It will also support the growth and development of the community and ecosystem. FFDW is a charitable sister organization whose mission is to ensure the preservation of mankind's most important information by managing the development of open source software and open protocols.
Marta: Rainey, why use a decentralized network to perform your tasks?
Rainey Reitman is a member of the board of directors of FFDW. She is a well-known civil rights activist, including her 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 the centralized network is letting down technical users every day. I'm thinking about how social media companies use flawed machine learning or how they abuse the terms of service when we visit a website. A profitable Internet at the expense of consumer choice and consumer privacy is not what we need. Instead, we must consider creating a digital experience, rather than being controlled by a few technology monopolies that have proven to be untrustworthy.
In the short-term, decentralized alternatives can provide a refuge for users who want to choose not to deal with abusive technology companies. In the long-term, they can create market alternatives and promote the actual needs of users in the entire industry. React faster. I think Filecoin is an important part of the decentralized tool ecosystem, and these tools are exploring and designing a better digital future. Our foundation is guiding Filecoin's mission to serve humanity and also supporting a larger decentralized network.
Marta: Sheila, what do you think about 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, we will know that we have "arrived"; when every technology stack has integrated the blockchain at some point in time, this will become self-explanatory. When everything from storage to payment is decentralized, we will build and innovate everything based on the basic assumptions of decentralization.
The important thing is that we do need a cultural shift in mentality. People need to realize that peer-to-peer has many advantages. Any time you have an intermediary, you give them money, but you also give them power. Power expressed in terms of control, censorship, or other verbs that we can use in it. Eliminating these intermediaries will release tremendous power. However, we have not yet seen a cultural understanding of what these intermediaries have been doing.
One thing we hope is that this effort can become global. Currently, various jurisdictions are being isolated, and we believe that it needs to be more globalized and internationalized-I know that other people in the Filecoin Foundation also have this idea.
Marta: The growth of Ethreum is amazing. How does the Filecoin Foundation build an ecosystem and be widely adopted like Ethereum?
Joe Lubin is 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 the common view is that these protocols will connect and interoperate with each other. Together, these agreements will form an increasingly fragmented Internet and World Wide Web. From the very beginning, ConsenSys has been following the protocol laboratory project closely. There are profound similarities between the ecosystem of Ethereum and the ecosystem of Protocol Labs. So far, the work done by the Protocol Lab is excellent. . 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 enterprises in addition to those who pay more attention to encryption. It is important to build development tools for start-ups—for revolutionaries. However, you also need to make the technology comfortable and understandable for the business (for evolutionists).
Marta: How does the decentralized network solve the important problems of your work?
Danny O'Brien is a consultant for FFDW. He is an internationally renowned online freedom of speech and privacy activist. He is engaged in strategic work at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and is a founding member of the Open Rights Organization in the United Kingdom.
The issues we are dealing with at the EFF and other civil rights organizations dealing with the Internet have increasingly become global issues. They are no longer limited to a specific country or region. Therefore, we are now looking for solutions that can scale to this global level. The lesson of the past few years is that when you are dealing with civil liberties and human rights issues on a global scale, any centralized solution is practically impossible to scale. I am interested in decentralized networks and how it is not only technically but geographically dispersed, and supports the diversity of people who now live in the digital world.
Marta: At present, what is the status quo of US blockchain policy, and what should our policy goals be?
Kristin Smith is the executive director of the Blockchain Association, the leading industry association responsible for blockchain policy in the United States.
Looking at the crypto policy framework, we don't have a national framework on how to deal with blockchain and cryptocurrency. We have encountered challenges in defining different types of cryptocurrencies. Due to the lack of definitions, we have great uncertainty as to which regulations and when they apply. 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 clarify the tax policy. We need to figure out how to deal with the crypto market and how to ensure the integrity of the crypto market. I also think that our goal should be to ensure that nothing bad happens. We don’t want any regulations or legislative content to hinder all the good work in progress. This requires us to both defend and attack.
The members of the Filecoin Foundation include:
Board of Directors: Brain Behlendorf, Marta Belcher, Rainey Reitman
Advisors: Alex Feerst, Georgia Quinn, Meredith Barge, Sheila Warren, Joe Lubin, Sandra Ro, Katie Biber, Kristin Smith
Constables: Clara Tsao, Megan Kliman
staff: Philipp Banhardt