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H.B.R. presents. Hi, I'm Azima Zahin. This is the exponential view podcast where I discuss the rapidly changing world and how technology is shaping it with some of the most thoughtful thinkers and creators out there.

Now in previous conversations on this podcast with guests like Yuval Harare and Shashana Zuboff and others, we've addressed some of the contentious issues of corporations controlling and exploiting our personal data.

My guest this week is Manie Bally and he feels the same.

He believes that the Internet today is controlled by a few mega corporations hoovering up our

data and selling it.

But he dreams of an online future

where we can retain ownership and control of our information

and an online world where security and privacy

are fundamental.

It's a bold vision. Perhaps it's a revolutionary one.

Moni Bally it's great to have you here.

Awesome to be here.

Tell us in your own words, your company is Block Stack, why does it exist and what does it do?

Block Stack is a user-owned internet.

It's more of an open source technology than a company.

And I think people should really think of that

as the exact opposite of a Facebook, meaning that instead of signing up on a

website or really a company and you're handing over all of your data to that company.

This is open source software that you own that enables you to be really the true owners of all of

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