Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future Technologies are always to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

We're just around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing,

blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Hello and welcome to Future Tech Podcast. I'm your host, Juliet Lamar, and we have with us

today, Mick Hagan. He is the founder and CEO at Mainframe. Welcome, Mick. Thank you so much for

joining us. Thanks for having me, Juliet. It's an honor. Yeah, I'm really excited to hear all about

mainframe. So why don't you go ahead and start us off with telling us about this exciting new thing

you're working on. Yeah, so Mainframe is a decentralized peer-to-peer network, and essentially it allows for

unstoppable communication. So it's censorship resistant, it's surveillance resistant.

We're, you know, it's infrastructure, it's a peer-to-peer network, and we're allowing developers

to build rich

decentralized applications on top of it. I think a good use case is messaging and communication,

being able to communicate in privacy, secure, and free, you know, freedom. Our core values

around privacy and freedom, and we're building the infrastructure which

can enable that. And going to illuminate us a little bit on how big of a problem privacy is within

these, you know, chatting and messaging. How easy is it for someone to hack in and see what you're

talking about? Yeah, so there's a few examples that I'll give. I think a lot of the use

cases that we're focused on really are for businesses, for companies, we're even working with

the government. They value privacy and security in a very big way because, you know, lives are

on the line in a very real sense with many of these scenarios where they need to make sure that they're communicating in a very private and a very secure way.

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