YouTube, Tron and the Dream of Decentralization | January 3rd, 2019
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🗓️ 3 January 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
The past few weeks have seen multiple instances of large, centralized tech giants censoring crypto related content and activity. Noticed in the context of the Coinbase Wallet, Apple is pushing back against apps that have anything to do with Dapps. YouTube caused even more of a stir when it took down hundreds of crypto-related videos from prominent influencers without any warning. It later reversed the action, claiming an error, but it was enough to get many to ask: are decentralized alternatives possible?
As if on cue, Justin Sun popped up to announce that TRON had struck a deal through which decentralized Twitch competitor and streaming service DLive would be moving to the TRON Blockchain and integrating with BitTorrent’s BLive streaming service. For many, however, TRON’s involvement makes DLive more likely to end up a centralized tool than a disruptive decentralized social network alternative.
Episode Topics and Links
- YouTube (temporarily) takes down crypto content
- Apple pushes back on Dapps in the app store
- Crypto community calls for decentralized alternatives to big tech
- DLive moves to TRON Blockchain
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| 1:21.1 | happened, but in the context of what I see as an overarching underlying narrative that connects |
| 1:27.2 | them. And so the first story that I |
| 1:29.8 | wanted to highlight was Apple basically blacklisting apps that interacted with DAPS at all. So we saw |
| 1:37.3 | this in terms of Coinbase wallet. Coinbase wallet was pressured to drop its DAP browser or be pushed off of the Apple platform. |
| 1:46.9 | It's clear that the Apple App Store doesn't want users to have anything to do with DAPs, right? |
| 1:51.1 | Decentralized apps. |
| 1:52.5 | Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, commented on a Reddit thread about this and he says, |
| 1:57.3 | Coinbase CEO here, this is really unfortunate to see. |
| 2:00.4 | Apple seems to be eliminating |
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