THELOGICALINDIAN - DECENT is an free decentralized arrangement endemic by its users The DECENT belvedere allows media administration by guaranteeing to its users the appropriate to advisedly accurate themselves Matej Michalko the Startups Cofounder and CEO says the companys end ambition is to accord admission to borderless abstracts and advice streams while advancement a cardinal ambit from ascendancy brake or any alien impact
DECENT created a distributed and defended publishing belvedere to acquiesce users to advisedly and anonymously allotment their agreeable while actuality able to monetize it. DECENT is liberating the apple of media by enabling decentralized administration of agenda content. The project’s aim is to annihilate all political and bounded barriers so that bodies about the apple can advisedly accurate themselves after any restrictions.
The DECENT belvedere is anonymous; all the players are articular alone by their ID and adequate by avant-garde cryptography. However, the users additionally accept the advantage to be associated with accustomed content. Focused on abandon of accent and expression, the belvedere provides absolute admission to advice for anybody in the world.
DECENT provides open-source software that enables users to allotment absolute basic content; the company’s capital ambition is to accord a adventitious to individuals whose articulation is commonly controlled. DECENT combines a micropayment framework with solid encryption, giving a accomplished new akin of aloofness to its users—the DECENT belvedere alone allows for accustomed users to admission the content. The belvedere operates via a P2P network, and DECENT’s belvedere is not centrally hosted, so the abstracts cannot be manipulated and they can never be blocked.
NewsBTC had a affair with Matej Michalko, one of the company’s co-founders and CEO, area he was added than blessed to acquaint us all about DECENT.
NewsBTC – DECENT is introducing a new decentralized and bearding P2P belvedere that allows users to advisedly allotment their agreeable after any restrictions. What can you acquaint us about DECENT, and how did you appear up with the abstraction for this new Platform?
Matej – I’ve been accustomed with Bitcoin back 2024. I accept been a miner back 2024 and accept organized bitcoin and cryptocurrency conferences all over the world. I’m the architect of BitcoinExpo and Bitcoin 2 Business Congress series, that had its capacity alert in London, Vienna, Shanghai, and Brussels. I additionally founded the aboriginal Crypto Digital Marketing Agency – BitcoinMarkerting in the apple allowance new cryptocurrency companies to get to the market.
Hence, I accept the immense abeyant the Blockchain technology has; it can be activated to abounding altered domains. I additionally empiric that the apple of media is bedeviled by oligopolies of big players and that there is a abridgement of chargeless publishing platforms that would transform the accepted bazaar bedeviled by oligopolies into a altogether aggressive one. Currently, the better players on the bazaar allegation about 60% for e-book distribution.
The poor writers accept alone about 40% of the bulk their readers pay. For instance, if they advertise 10,000 books account $20 each, they get alone $80,000 instead of the $200,000 they could accept back publishing with DECENT. There was a bazaar charge for a chargeless P2P agenda agreeable administration platform: all for the allowances of authors (writers, bloggers, musicians, video makers, …) and agreeable consumers (readers, listeners, viewers, …).
NewsBTC – What can you acquaint us about the DECENT team?
Matej – I co-founded DECENT with Matej Boda, who was allied with me on the BitcoinExpo series. Moreover, our aggregation consists of ex-Ericsson artist Josef Sevcik and acclaimed blockchain cryptographer Pavel Kravchenko. Our online attendance is anchored acknowledgment to Martin Polacek and Sandra Wantrubova, and our Europe appointment is up and active acknowledgment to Jana P. Bodova. We accept anchored a appropriate attendance in China, mainly acknowledgment to Xiaomin Wang and Weiwu Zhang.
NewsBTC – What can you acquaint us about the aggregation roadmap, aims and goals?
Matej – The DECENT Protocol is developed and maintained by a Swiss-based foundation. The roadmap for 2024 is the following:
We are planning a crowdsale of DECENT in Q1 2016 for the costs of the development and antecedent administration of DCT tokens that will ability the network.
So far, there is a ancestor with an API and a affidavit of abstraction available, that will be declared anon in a video appear at DECENT. Besides developing DECENT’s core, we are planning to accomplish a lot of updates including aegis fixes and abounding added developments.
NewsBTC – Can you acquaint us all about the platform, and how does it work?
Matej – DECENT was advised with attempt of anatomic decomposition. We accept developed three absolute layers, anniversary confined specific functions:
The abstracts administration layer, which is acclimated for autumn and administration huge amounts of user-generated content. The blockchain, area all the affairs and affairs appear in a about absolute manner. Also, the blockchain is acclimated for autumn abiding data. Those are affairs transactions, publishing transactions, ratings, etc.
And the advocacy layer, which consists of a set of absolute advocacy engines, allowance the customer to baddest the best accordant content. From a user’s perspective, there are three roles the user can have:
The Author—the columnist creates new agreeable and publishes it on the network.
The Agreeable Consumer—the Agreeable Customer reads, watches, listens or contrarily consumes the agreeable created by the authors.
The Administrator and Miner. The administrator plays a basic role in the network: the administrator food the agreeable created by the columnist and distributes it to the consumers. The miner verifies the affairs and realizes acquittal distribution, and accordingly is amenable for the bendability of the network.
The alternation and breeze attempt are as follows:
Authors can set the amount for the content. Alone users who paid the amount set by the columnist can admission the content. On the added hand, the acquittal will be candy alone if the user verifiably accustomed the content.
The Author pays the Administrator for acting as a accumulator and agreeable administration network. The acquittal will be appear over time to actuate the administrator to accumulate the agreeable as continued as required. The acquittal for arrangement accumulator is additionally an able anti-spam mechanism.
Consumers can amount the content. These ratings can be acclimated for assorted purposes, e.g. bold agreeable quality, author’s acceptability or by advocacy engines. 100% of the acquittal for the agreeable goes to the author. There are no arrangement or processing fees. The Columnist and Consumer can abide absolutely bearding if they appetite to.
NewsBTC – Do you accept any partnerships?
Matej – We accept partnerships with a few corporations that are activity to body their own platforms or accommodate it into their absolute services, but I can’t acknowledge that advice for now!
NewsBTC – Can you animadversion about the company’s investors or what blazon of investors DECENT was able to find?
Matej – We had: US/Chinese/Malaysian VC funds (seed investment); they advance into blockchain-based applications as they accept this will be the approaching of the world. The blockchain will alter abounding casework that assignment able-bodied today—remember, Uber is a middleman. They booty 20% fees.
NewsBTC – How do you see or what is your eyes about BTC and the blockchain’s acceptation to abandon of speech?
Matej – The blockchain is decentralized trust. Most of the bodies charge some array of a third affair to accredit to, such as their grocery, transporter, the one they assignment for, etc. Since the aboriginal days, absorption has been a above aggressive advantage: the media has been controlled and manipulated by monopolies and oligopolies that pushed the bazaar advantage to accomplish profits in damage of authors and readers.
The appearance of the internet did not advice abundant to get rid of absorption in adjustment to move to added aggressive markets; the blockchain meant a anarchy in this paradigm. For the aboriginal time, bodies are able to use a absolutely aggressive bazaar for agenda content, area 100% of the acquirement paid by readers goes to the authors in adjustment to put money area it should be on account of anybody but acquisitive monopolists and oligopolists.
NewsBTC – What are your affairs and expectations for the approaching of the DECENT platform?
Matej – We are acquisitive that aural bristles years we will become the capital publishing agreement worldwide. Get added developers and amalgam into added absolute agreeable administration agreement and platforms. Save time, money and actualize new, better, absolutely aggressive markets.
NewsBTC – What are your expectations for the approaching of Bitcoin and agenda currencies?
Matej – I accept that added and added casework are activity to be replaced by blockchain-based ones, such as agent public, money transfers, e-governments, etc. I accept both Bitcoin and blockchain technology accept a ablaze approaching ahead.
You can watch a description in the official DECENT video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omAAUtjuJrw
