Your data is value.

Personal Data Value (PDV) is the economic expression of the securely recorded online activity on your DecID. Only you can access this data. Only you can choose what your data is used for and who has access to it: private, semi-private, public, it is up to you.

Secure data is valuable because it is immutable and tamperproof, and that value on Decentr is expressed as an economic value that is yours to pay and trade. Our R&D has demonstrated that immutable and tamperproof data has the same (or superior) “value store” properties as “money”. In other words, decentralised data can function as a stable expression of exchangeable and fungible value between buyer and seller due to its relative value being determined by community consensus.

Neither. This is the beauty of the system: your PDV fluctuates, depending on engagement, in the same way as a standard currency “exchange rate”. When you want to pay or trade on Decentr, your dWallet will support a range of crypts and fiat (including Dec) and you can elect to use whatever currency you like.

The cool part is that this payment will be made at a personal “exchange rate”, dictated by your PDV to Dec.

Here’s a simple example: if through positive engagement and online activity your PDV reaches

PDV: 1.0001 I DEC: 1.0000

then a real-world-value, $10 purchase (we'll assume an exchange rate of USD $1.0000 to DEC: 1.0000 for ease of calculation) will “cost” you (underwritten by Dec/Decentr) $9.9990, and so forth.

It’s simple math, but on a global scale it changes the game completely.

Yes – in fact, by default. The only way our data economy can function is by ensuring the value of every data point is 100% secure and decentralised to give it superior "value store" properties to "money". Our users can therefore be certain we will keep reinvesting in state-of-the-art security upgrades and protocols – or our economy could start to falter.

We need 100% anonymity and security to ensure we deliver on our promise of a new socioeconomic paradigm that produces egalitarian wealth creation opportunities for every user.

The simplest way to describe it is we are using nodes in blockchain (Holochain) to connect to the actual data provider so there is no possible way it can be blocked or tracked. This means there is no need for a VPN.

At least 26 of the 115 most popular VPNs are secretly keeping tabs on you. Even TOR is not that secure. This was demonstrated when hackers managed to steal 7.5 terabytes of data from a major Russian contractor, exposing secret FSB plans to de-anonymise TOR. You can be pretty certain many other state-backed agencies would have no (and have not had any) qualms about taking similar action.

Holochain is not mentioned by name on our "Decentr web 3.0 architecture" chart or descriptions – though they are listed as a partner, and we are quite vocal in the media about this cool partnership. Not everyone is aware of Holochain yet, so we stuck to using the term “DLT”, of which Holochain is a radically-new type, in order to engage with a wider audience. (Holonauts will “get it” anyway.)

Holochain is critical to Decentr as Holochain delivers the core foundational tech we need for 100% decentralised, energy-efficient data storage and other features our platform requires. Holochain is the only technology that can deliver what we need, as Holochain is not really blockchain per se. The updating of information on Holochain is not system-wide but user-centric, which is why it is the only suitable solution for our Web 3.0/4.0 platform.

Yes. But Decentr goes much further than this. In our view, add-ons are a mediocre bridging solution – to change the world requires more radical solutions. We are actually not only building an add-on but also our very own Dec Browser (dBrowser), so no “piggybacking” on Chrome or Firefox but instead our own dBrowser based on Holochain.

The dBrowser will be part of our software bundle that can be installed on any device – be that a smartphone or PC, or even your fridge with smart IoT capability. The possibilities are near-limitless: our devs are building a browser for all computers – be that Mac Linux or windows – and our mobile guys are doing the same for iOS and Android, so we cover all the systems people use.