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Building an Autonomous Digital Society——From the Idea of ​​a Genius

The Trinity he mentioned is naturally not the Trinity in the sense of religion that we are familiar with, but refers to the three parts that make up the computer—"deal with”、“"as well as""as well as"storage”。 

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The launch of the Ethereum mainnet in 2015 was the first time people heard the sound of the world's computer starting up. But this world computer is not complete—although it has powerful processing power, it is dwarfed by storage and communication capabilities. 

If the Ethereum blockchain is compared to the CPU of the world computer, then Swarm is the hard disk of this computer.

Swarm was originally designed as a storage system for the Ethereum network. However, as the project continued to grow, another part of the trinity - "communication" was gradually incorporated into it. It can be said that Swarm is an integral part of making Ethereum complete.The Swarm team writes in their official release "The Book of Swarm": "Storage and communication are the infrastructure of an autonomous digital society."It can be seen that the ambitions of Swarm and Ethereum are huge, and what they ultimately want to build is exactly- A secure, trustworthy, censorship-resistant, zero-downtime, and self-sustaining digital society. To describe it in another way, Swarm wants to replace the traditional Internet and lead mankind into a new era called Web3.0.

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The important role played by BZZ in SwarmThe word Swarm literally translates to "a large group", and it is not difficult to see from the logo design of Swarm shaped like a hive and the naming of its official client Bee (bee), the brand inspiration of the Swarm project comes from "beeBZZThe naming of V God seems to be based on his own brand, and deliberately chose a name whose pronunciation is close to the sound made by bees when they fly.

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As we all know, bees are extremely orderly insects who know how to divide and cooperate. Just like each node in the blockchain world, everyone works together to build and maintain the entire blockchain ecosystem. As far as Swarm is concerned, the specific responsibilities are everyone Together maintain a world-scale data storage system. But in fact, this peer-to-peer data storage system already existed long before Swarm. It is BitTorrent, a protocol that allows people to effectively store and distribute data in a decentralized manner.

So since such a system already exists, why is there a project like Swarm?The answer lies in BZZ. Just like the orderly and busy work of bees, what they finally want to harvest is sweet honey,All nodes that store and distribute data also need a certain incentive system to encourage them to continue such "labor"

, otherwise why do they occupy their own storage space and network bandwidth to maintain such a system?The BZZ token introduced by the Swarm project solves the pain point of the lack of incentive system in agreements such as BitTorrent in one fell swoop.According to the "Book of Swarm", Swarm uses the swap protocol and incentive systems such as swear and swindle to ensure the rationality of the fees and rewards involved in its data storage and distribution. As a functional token of Swarm, BZZ can be perfectly applied in its incentive system.

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How can I own BZZ?According to official information, the total issuance of BZZ is62.5 million pieces,takeUnlocked release mechanism, since the Swarm mainnet is expected to be launched in the second quarter of this year, its specific mining method is not yet clear. However, Swarm has entered the testing phase. This test will airdrop 1 million BZZ to reward early users for the Swarm project. The network is stress tested. The official name of the airdrop operation is "”。

The Rise of BeeIt is worth mentioning that these BZZ are not simply distributed directly, but exchanged by check. The way to get the check is also very interesting - during the test phase, the network will randomly determine 35 "queen bee node

Swarm is in the limelight, and some companies with a keen sense of smell have already begun to deploy it early. like"Blue Shell Cloud StorageBlue Shell Cloud Storage"The first batch of enterprises that deployed Swarm are fully developing the BZZ token exchange project.Over 60,000 exchange checks received since March and growing daily

As for how to carry out BZZ mining after the Swarm mainnet is launched, we need to wait for further official confirmation. However, judging from the currently known information, Swarm is likely to adopt a mining mechanism similar to Filecoin, which requires the pledge of BZZ tokens for mining. Of course, in the end everything is still subject to official information.

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Swarm has a future with infinite potentialPerhaps most Internet residents have had this experience—just want to get content online, but are constantly interrupted by annoying advertisements, and sometimes even find that these advertisements are always able to accurately grasp their needs, At this time, I realized that my privacy had been violated unconsciously. After all, user data is actually in the hands of those centralized large enterprises, and it seems that it is destined to be difficult to escape the fate of being used by them for profit.

In recent years, with the frequent incidents of data theft and abuse, people are increasingly aware that the current mainstream data system needs to pay a very painful price.

It is this situation that Swarm wants to break.As mentioned earlier, the ultimate goal of Swarm and Ethereum is to build an autonomous digital society - everyone's data will truly belong to them and be completely in their own hands.People no longer have to worry about their data being misused by other centralized companies or organizations

, and by maintaining such a decentralized data network, people will also receive token rewards such as BZZ, and a digital society that can sustain itself and contain a complete economic incentive system can be formed.