Resilience or Building on Quicksand: Decentralized Infrastructure

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Argues that current Web3 frontends still rely on centralized cloud hosting and steals user value, and describes building Dappnode software to let homes run full stacks (geth/eth1, eth2 validators, IPFS/Swarm) on Raspberry-class hardware with easy installs. Reports community traction: home validators already leave ≈2,600 graffiti-marked blocks, volunteers running nodes increase protocol resilience, and a planned infrastructure farming DAO will pool staking rewards and assign reputation to node operators to shift value from cloud providers to individuals.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:44WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS MODEL?
3. 1:38Facebook Paid Contractors to Transcrit Users' Audio Chats
4. 2:36WEB 3.0 TO THE RESCUE... RIGHT?
5. 9:51Incentivizing Infrastructure is critical

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