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{ "faqs": [ { "category": "general", "question": "What is Blockstack?", "answer": "<p>Blockstack is a full-stack decentralized computing network that enables a new generation of applications where developers and users can interact fairly and securely. Blockstack uses blockchain technology to build protocols and developer tools designed to enable a fair and open Internet that returns digital rights to developers and consumers. Led by some of the world’s foremost experts on distributed systems, Blockstack allows users to own their own data that they can take with them from app to app in the ecosystem, along with their Blockstack ID that eliminates the need for password-based logins. The end result is privacy, security, and freedom.<\/p>" }, { "category": "general", "question": "What is decentralized computing?", "answer": "<p>Decentralized computing has these attributes:<\/p> <ul> <li><strong>Personal keys for a digital life<\/strong>. Users will have keys that unlock all their software interactions, email, subscriptions, and social. These keys are in users’ hands and under their control similar to physical keys (in some cases they are physical). Corporations  no longer create or manage these keys.<\/li> <li><strong>Security is a first-class concern<\/strong>.  Users want systems that protect both their identity and the data associated with that identity — health, application, and relationships.<\/li> <li><strong>Convenient and auditable.<\/strong> Applications will be readily available as cloud applications are today but will be written with open protocols and code that allow them to be audited.<\/li> <li><strong>Innovation focused.<\/strong> The code and data in a decentralized computing lacks corporate and other boundaries as a result a global workforce can easily contribute and benefit from them.<\/li> <\/ul> <p>Blockstack technology, then, is a shift in how people use software, create it, and benefit from it. It puts people back in control of the computing systems that manage today’s world.<\/p>" }, { "category": "general", "question": "What is the Blockstack Ecosystem?", "answer": "<p>The Blockstack Ecosystem is the legal entities and community structures that support the Blockstack technology, the apps that rely on it, and the people that work with it. The ecosystem’s mission is to foster an open and decentralized Internet that establishes and protects privacy, security and freedom for all users.<\/p> <p>There are multiple business entities that have been created to focus on advancing the ecosystem, <a href='https://blog.blockstack.org/a-path-to-decentralization/'>with plans for further decentralization<\/a>:<\/p> <ul> <li><strong>Blockstack PBC<\/strong> is a Public Benefit Corp that drives the development of the core Blockstack protocol and developer tools. Blockstack PBC was founded in 2013 by Princeton computer scientists and after 4+ years of R&amp;D, launched the Blockstack Platform alpha in early 2017. The Blockstack Platform is the easiest way to start building decentralized, blockchain-based applications. It provides a complete decentralized application stack, powered by the Stacks blockchain, and maintained by a open-source community.<\/li> <li><strong>Blockstack Token LLC<\/strong> is the entity responsible for developing and commercializing the Stacks tokens in a manner that is approved by the SEC. Blockstack Token LLC works on any appropriate regulatory filings and conducted the 2017 token offering. Stacks tokens created by Token LLC were distributed in the genesis block of the Stacks blockchain in Fall 2018.<\/li> <li><strong>Blockstack Signature Fund<\/strong> <strong>I<\/strong> is a fund comprised of multiple VCs representing $25 million in funding that makes opportunistic investments in the ecosystem whether it be Blockstack applications or into tools and platforms that accelerate the growth of the ecosystem. Learn more about <a href='https://signature.vc/'>the Signature Fund<\/a>.<\/li> <li><strong>Blockstack Foundation (working title)<\/strong> will be a 501c(3) non-profit organization