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) “valuation” and “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 a combination of community consensus and market value.

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 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.