The internet went down last night. Again.
A single point of failure in Google’s cloud identity systems brought services like Spotify, Snapchat, Discord, Twitch, and Shopify to a standstill.
Billions affected. All reliant on a few tech giants to stay online.
This is the cost of centralisation. But, it doesn’t have to be this way.
Autonomi is building a new internet — one that doesn’t go dark when one company fails.
A decentralised network, where power is distributed, resilience is built in, and no single point can take the whole system down.
If you felt yesterday’s outage, imagine a future where that doesn’t happen.
The Bitcoin you own is valuable because it lives on the network.
It can not be removed from the network by anyone, not by the law, not by you, not by force, not by coercion.
Bitcoin will be on the network forever, it cannot be deleted.
Data on the Autonomi Network is like Bitcoin, it can never be removed from the network, not by those who disagree with you, not by those that want to oppress and sensor you, not by those who seek to hide the truth.
Once on the network your data, video, blog, website will be preserved for the life of the network.
Stop supporting rent seeking data storage monopolies, for a tiny once off payment your data can live rent-free forever on the Autonomi Network.
🧵 You know that Tim Berners-Lee invented the web and you know that Vint Cerf co-created internet protocols.
But there's a Scottish engineer who's been quietly building a radical future and new internet for two decades.
Let me tell you about David Irvine.