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A
How
are
you
guys
doing
today,
hooray
my
slides?
They
exist.
Okay.
Thank
you
all
for
coming
I'd
like
to
talk
to
you
about
my
company,
capsule
social,
my
startup,
I'm
nadim,
I'm
here
on
behalf
of
a
team
of
10,
bright
individuals
and
we're
building
something
cool
and
nearest
part
of
the
technologies
that
we
are
using
in
order
to
solve
a
set
of
technical
problems
that
our
project
is
facing.
A
So
what
is
what
are
we
trying
to
do?
The
entire
thing
started
back
in
january
february
march
of
this
year.
Basically,
trump
was
kicked
off
of
twitter
and
that
elicited
an
enormous
amount
of
sudden
interest
from
especially
the
american
anthropocene
in
in
actually
like
looking
at
freedom
of
freedom
of
expression,
online,
etc,
and
you
had
these
answers
to
that
problem
that
were
largely
kind
of
not
very
interesting
answers
like
parlor
or
or
gab
or
stuff
like
that.
A
But
they
were
basically
like
immediately
overridden
with
pepe
the
frog
avatar
accounts
and
stuff
like
that,
and
so
it
wasn't
really
interesting
and
what
I
was
trying
to
do
at
the
time
is
figure
out
a
way
for
us
to
have
better
discourse
on
the
internet
without
just
perpetuating
the
nonsense
of
twitter
and
make
it
making
it
decentralized
right,
just
like
having
decentralized
posting
great
way
to
spend
my
30s
okay.
A
So
we
built
like
this
decentralized
twitter
thing
and
then
realized
that
it
sucked,
because
it
misleadingly
solves
the
technological
problem,
because
decentralized
web
3
quantum
blockchain
token
et
cetera,
but
it
doesn't
solve
the
content
problem
and
these
two
problems
are
actually
intertwined
right.
So
we're
building
this
new
thing.
We
were
supposed
to
call
it
capsule.
The
company
is
still
called
capsule,
capsule
social,
but
then
actually
turns
out
that
cops.
Capsule
is
trademarked
within
the
context
of
software,
so
we
chose
the
most
facepalmy
cheesy
name
imaginable,
blog
chain.
A
That's
what
we're
going
to
call
the
platform
blog
chain
turns
out
that
it's
not
trademarked.
Also
people
like
it,
so
we
picked
it.
I'm
sorry,
it's
basically
a
decentralized
substance
like
network
with
social
elements,
it's
resistant
to
takedowns
and
stuff.
Like
that,
I
mean:
there's
truth
social
now,
so
you
can
go
if
you
really
care
about
people
taking
you
down,
I
guess
blockchain,
but
also
is
supposed
to
be
a
truly
decentralized
social
network.
Where
users
have
agency
over
their
presence.
You
can
basically
control
your
identity.
A
A
So
we're
building
I'll
show
you
a
demo
of
the
user
experience
in
a
bit
we're
building
on
top
of
near
because
near
gives
us
an
easy
chain
with
nice
api
to
build
stuff
like
a
root
of
trust,
for
public
keys
and
user
names,
and
that's
useful
we're
also
going
to
be
using
it
for
stuff,
like
smart
contract
infrastructure
for
moderation,
so
it
if
I'm
going
to
give
someone
if
I'm
going
to
give
someone
the
boot
right,
because
they're
really
abusing
the
platform
at
the
very
least
we
can
make
it
such
that
people
cannot
be
given
the
boot
unless
there
have
been
three
strikes
and
the
way
that
a
strike
is
defined
and
recorded
happens
via
smart
contract.
A
So
there's
no
arbitrary
enforcement
of
moderation,
there's
no
shadow
banning
there's
no
stuff
like
that
right,
we're
also
using
orbit
db
and
ipfs.
So
here's
what
it
looks
like
I'm
really
like.
I
can't
stress
this
enough.
We
are
very
not
interested
in
building
fancy
nft
smart
contract
nonsense
unless
it
actually
is
built
on
top
of
something
that
provides
intrinsic
value
to
more
traditional
users
right.
So
this
is
supposed
to
compete
with
sub
stack.
A
So
you
know
when
you
go
on
linkedin
and
you
see
these
posts
like
today.
My
blind
grandfather
finally
passed
his
driver's
license
test
after
like
this
is
cringe-worthy,
like
extremely
like
I
mean
sometimes
they're
very
sympathetic,
but
like
people
tend
to
really
overplay
things
on
linkedin.
So
now
you
can
react
with
a
cringe
face.
You
know
like
there's,
actually
that
so
stuff
like
that.
How
does
it
work?
A
So
this
is
someone
who
wants
to
post
something
on
capsule
on
blog
chain
and
basically
they
just
communicate
to
a
bunch
of
ipfs
nodes
because
we're
running
orbit
db.
A
It
means
that
we
can
program
our
own
turing,
complete
content
validation
scheme,
that's
distributed
across
all
the
nodes,
validates
the
content
signed
with
their
public
key
public
key
is
verified
via
near
one
of
the
reasons,
one
of
the
main
reasons
why
we're
using
near
and
then
through
pub
sub
it
propagates
to
all
capsule
nodes,
and
then
people
can
fetch
the
content
by
doing
the
thing
in
reverse
and
obtaining
it
now
they
can
read
about
the
news
or
whatever
blog
post
or
tweet
or
whatever
they
want
to
read
about.
We
are
envisioning
envisioning
a
token.
A
I
don't
want
to
talk
about
the
token,
so
future
developments
adapting
our
tech
to
core
experiences
right.
So
the
idea
is
once
we
actually
have
the
technological
infrastructure
for
stuff
like
blockchain,
right
like
posts
or
tweets
or
whatever
it's
just
a
question
of
user
experience.
For
us
to
diversify
that
into
video
chain
job
chain,
art
chain,
academic,
paper
chain
right,
it's
just
a
question
of
how
we
present
it
to
the
user,
but
the
technology
is
the
same.
A
So
that's
how
we
plan
to
grow
as
we
move
along
in
the
years
to
come,
I
mean:
is
there
yeah?
So
the
token
you
know
is
supposed
to
promote
pro
discourse
behavior.
If
you
help
mirror
content,
if
you
help
with
content,
moderation,
decentralized,
moderation,
if
you
help
with
stuff
you
get
a
token,
you
can
use
that
to
unlock
nfts.
A
You
can
access
the
special
stage
if
you're
playing
sonic,
3
and
knuckles,
it's
the
one
that
actually
has
blue
spheres
red
spheres.
Okay.
So
what's
the
competition
we're
really
trying
to
compete
with
web
2.?
You
know
we
think
we
need
to
beat
substance
right,
but
we
also
we're
interested
in
having
web
3
features
and
true
decentralization
there's
also
like
reasonable
web
3
competitors
such
as
mines
and
mirror
they're
pretty
good.
A
So
I
have
nothing
but
respect
for
those
people
and
hopefully
we
can
provide
a
product
that
competes
with
them
right
team,
so
we're
we
have
a
cool
team.
We
are
very
hiring
we
actually
hired
two
more
people
just
yesterday,
we're
finally
kick-starting
our
content
team.
We
are
very
interested
in
having
a
strong
content
team,
so
that's
one
of
the
major
pushes
that
we're
doing
in
terms
of
fundraising
in
terms
of
hiring.
A
We
finally
finally
finally
got
the
content
marketing
director
that
was
really
hard
and
we
have
initial
funding
from
so
we
got
our
seed
funding
from
balaji,
sunivasana
and
naval
ravikat
and
also
poli
chain
and
a
bunch
of
other
guys
castle,
island,
ventral,
firefly
capital
ventures
in
one
of
the
capital.
We're
like
doing
a
series
a
but
it's
weird
because
we
haven't
launched
yet
but
we're
close
to
it,
but
we
also
need
it
to
get
a
really
strong
content
team.
It's
a
very
weird
place
to
be
in
our
team
is
great.
A
We
recently
all
flew
to
paris.
I
live
in
paris,
they
all
flew
to
paris
and
we
had
a
great
like
week-long
team
meeting
after
working
with
each
other
for
eight
months
and
never
meeting
each
other
is
very,
very
nice.
I'm
extremely
proud
of
this
team
right,
so
we're
hoping
to
launch
early
next
year
january,
2021
public
beta
anyone
can
sign
up
great
you
sign
up
with
a
near
wallet
and
also
we're
hoping
to
use
that
to
understand
things
better.
A
The
world
understand
is
repeated
there
many
times
and
then
after
that,
we're
hoping
for
a
more
public
release.
Yeah
this
timeline
is
wrong
january
21
2022
is
the
public
beta
and
then
march
or
april.
2022
is
us
doing
stuff.
We
have
a
private
alpha
right
now
you
can
use
it,
it
works,
but
it's
not.
It's
not.
A
Fancy
like
I'm
a
big
like
apple
kind
of
fanboy
in
terms
of
their
product
design,
and
what
I
really
want
is
something
that
works
well,
something
that
has
a
unified
user
experience
and
something
that
provides
intrinsic
sort
of
unroadable
value
to
the
user
until
until
we
get
there
we're
not
launching,
but
we're
going
to
get
there
pretty
quick
okay.
So
we
have
incredibly
700
people
on
our
discord.
We
have
done
nothing
to
promote
this
discord.
I
don't
know
where
they're
coming
from.
We
have
4
000
members
in
our
newsletter.