The disruptor of the centralized Internet, the attack on the green light planet

1. Why declare war on the centralized Internet

Human civilization began with the earliest decentralized life in primitive society. In that era, primitive people lived in families and small groups, fishing and hunting, eating raw meat and drinking blood, and drilling wood to make fire. Natural resources were inexhaustible for humans. What primitive people considered every day was whether to eat wild rabbits, pheasants, fish and shrimps today. They lived a happy life without worries and had sex after eating.

Then, with the evolution of language, the use of tools and weapons, humans began to gather into larger tribes, gradually evolving into slave society and feudal society, and entering an increasingly centralized stage. Slave owners and feudal emperors established centralized power, and humans began to be enslaved by wheat and the privileged class. They could only get enough food and clothing to survive after hard work every day. There were no wild rabbits, only steamed buns, and almost all surplus value was squeezed by centralized power. This was the earliest beginning of the evil of centralization.

Then in the 19th and 20th centuries, various peasant uprisings and workers' revolutions eliminated most of the feudal emperors. Until now, Saddam and Gaddafi are gone, and even the young, wealthy and intelligent Kim Jong-un has not appeared for a long time. Most countries and regions have established a democratic, legal and equal social system (not necessarily true). The government has achieved a decentralized distribution of wealth to a certain extent through taxation, social security, medical care and pension distribution, which has led to the happy life we ​​have now.

Unfortunately, another kind of brutal exploitation and oppression has emerged, that is, Google, Facebook, Apple, Tencent, Bytedance, Alibaba, Baidu, etc. These giants have indeed created a variety of useful and irresistible tools. But when people use them, they pay the price of contributing their social relationships, behavioral data, identity information and even biometrics, of course, your eyeballs and almost most of your spare time (or working time, I'm talking about you). On the one hand, the giants use this data to sell advertisements, operate games, and collect commissions from commodity sales, squeezing the profits of content producers and commodity suppliers to almost zero through automated advertising bidding technology. Many industries and even the entire industry are losing money, and they rely on the injection of venture capital to survive and seek a future, and the future is to become such an oligarch that can centralize and do evil. On the other hand, the high profits of these giants have nothing to do with loyal users like us, or even paid members. It would be fine if they didn't share the money with us, but they turned around and tortured us to death. For example, Taobao coaxes you into buying things, while Huabei lends you money and cheats you out of interest. WeChat also tricks you into charging money through games, and then Weilidai lends you money. The centralization of feudal society was evil at best, squeezing you into poverty and leaving you penniless, while the centralization of the Internet is evil, tricking you into selling even your kidneys. If you borrow too much online, you may never be able to turn things around in your life. Unknowingly, Facebook, WeChat, Google, etc. have become the empires with the largest territory, the largest population, the most brutal exploitation of the people, and the most greedy in history...

2. Ethereum did not win the first phase and the reasons why they did not win

It is always the otakus who change the world. The earliest otakus wrote the Bible, the Analects, the Communist Manifesto, the Declaration of Independence, etc., and fooled all mankind into working like crazy or fighting (because humans are a wonderful animal, born to believe in words written on paper, and even to pick up girls, it is not enough to just send flowers, but also to accompany them with love letters). But the first generation of Internet otakus are more of a matter of time and fate, a market that is almost as vast and uncultivated as the land of Africa, although they have also experienced various business battles. But if you look back now, social networking, e-commerce, video, these pits are always there, just like there will always be people building houses on vacant land in the city. Jack Ma, Pony Ma, Gates, etc. were all born around 1968, and they just passed by there at the right time and fell into that pit. If you don’t believe it, look at the first generation of Internet bigwigs born in 1978? They just asked people to type in code and cheat investors. The geeks in the blockchain industry are even more amazing. Satoshi Nakamoto, Vitalik Buterin, and BM can not only write manifestos (white papers), but also write code. Not only can they write code, but they can also defraud investors. Not only can they defraud investors, but they can also print their own investment (issue coins)...

The blockchain industry is unstoppable, and the centralized giants are already trembling. The Bitcoin network established the value foundation of the blockchain, and blew the battle horn on behalf of the value Internet to the information Internet. The Ethereum invented by the genius boy Vitalik Buterin first proposed the concept of "smart contracts". Turing-complete smart contracts can theoretically replace all centralized server programs. BM, who created EOS, went a step further and replaced the DPOS mechanism of POW, increasing the computing power of the blockchain network by ten or a hundred times. As of now, it can be said that blockchain + Dapp can properly replace most of the current centralized Internet services. Time passes, the sun and the moon change, and time is just a matter of time...

But (yes, I have been laying the groundwork for a long time just to start writing "but"), why is the blockchain so powerful, and the centralized Internet has not been subverted? Why do the majority of netizens, novices, and grandparents still not know how to use it? Let me tell you, it is because Vitalik, BM and other engineering men are too "homebound". Do you think everyone graduated from the computer department? Do you think everyone understands public keys, private keys, elliptic encryption, utxo and Byzantine algorithms? I guess even Linda, Lisa, and Rebecca who work in the cryptocurrency circle and finance don't understand it. It is impossible to teach everyone to use digital wallets and Dapps like WeChat. It is impossible in this lifetime! This is also the fundamental reason why most blockchain projects have ended in failure. It is not because our army is incompetent, but because humans are too stupid! And why can the GAFATAs that we have been scolding for a long time get billions of users and US dollars? (One billion, not bilibili, I know you are not good at English) Just look at the faces of the Internet giants and you will understand. They are generally cunning and false sincerity. They know that AI is cheating and big data can only hide behind. The stupider and simpler the front-end display, the better. From 3 to 80 years old, from fools to mentally retarded, everyone can use it without thinking. This is why Youku Tudou, a video app that needs to click in one by one, will evolve into Douyin, which plays for you as soon as it starts, and you only need to watch or swipe stupidly. This is why Momo, which swipes a bunch of beauties but needs to click in one by one to chat, wants to acquire Tantan, which can pick up girls by swiping left and right (Fei Si Bu Ke also started this way). Google and Baidu also hide various crawlers, engines, and data behind the scenes. The user side has only one box. Baidu even proposed the concept of "box computing" to box everyone to death. This is the evil of centralization, well disguised and deeply hidden. It controls your mind more than drugs and makes you die without knowing it...

Well, you still won’t understand even if I say too much. To summarize, in the traditional Internet, the front end relies on the ultimate user experience and burning money on advertising to attract users, and the back end relies on massive user data and AI algorithms and other deep logic to continuously deepen and widen the moat. Blockchain is the value Internet, which is related to money. In order to protect the digital currency assets of users, practitioners have strengthened the functions of private key management and signature authorization, which makes the front end difficult to use. As for the back end, let alone POW, POS, mining, smart contracts, and block production, normal people can’t understand them. Those who understand them are not normal people. How many blockchain users can you expect? Not to mention, the attribute of technical geeks who like to pretend to be cool, and they have made up a lot of inexplicable English abbreviations and new words, including BTC, ETH, and EOS, which are confusing and create a sense of distance (if he is called Alibaba, you are called Bit Baby; if he is called QQ, you are called Madam, which is better than now). Of course, the political reasons for the small number of blockchain users are not discussed here, even Libra has done it from the heart...

3. Green Lantern Planet, it’s up to you

“A spectre is haunting the European continent – ​​the spectre of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have united in a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.”

I don't know why, but the famous declaration above comes to mind. The first snow of 2019 came later than usual (not at all), but it did not prevent the emergence of the Green Light Planet project, a project that flows from the other side of the Pacific Ocean into the Eurasian continent, GreenLight (GL), stop at red lights and go at green lights. Some cities also promote driving at "green wave speed", so you will always encounter green lights. GreenLight, Good Luck! Born with a relaxed and friendly image. However, behind the beautiful image is actually... an even more beautiful heart.

Browsing the official website of GreenLight Planet, I found that they have proposed a very good idea, the GreenLight Protocol, and an action roadmap. Unlike many leeks-cutting projects, they always come up with public chains, new consensus, and so many TPS. You should know that public chains are like operating systems. They need not only a few ideas and enthusiasm, but also systematic innovative technologies and implementations, as well as appropriate market gaps and opportunities. Only then will there be a chance for many applications to grow on them and form an ecosystem. The ecosystem must be large, and an ecosystem that is not large enough cannot survive. Otherwise, it can only be reduced to Don Quixote-like delusion and self-entertainment.

Smart green light route, green lights all the way

So what is the specific roadmap of the Green Light Protocol? The Green Light team chose a very pragmatic route. They are not in a hurry to advance, but are advancing steadily and circuitously. They entered the market with a semi-decentralized posture. The team first launched the Green Light Planet (GreenLight) Dapp, which can also be called SemiDapp because it uses a combination of centralized and decentralized technologies. The purpose of Green Light Planet is to attract users and application ecosystems to settle in, consolidate the foundation of C-end users and developer users for the subsequent launch of the public chain, and verify the availability of user systems, face recognition, voting algorithms, behavioral mining and other technologies. In order to lower the entry threshold for users, his login uses the centralized technology of email verification, and automatically manages private keys for users in Dapp. But the team did not deceive themselves, like some Panquan projects, taking centralized Dapp as a blockchain project. The author found through in-depth use of Green Light Planet Dapp and research on project documents that the current centralized server of Green Light Planet Dapp is actually equivalent to a node of the future Green Light blockchain network. The team adopted a very smart rapid prototyping and online iteration development method, first using a node to verify various functions and enhance robustness. After the single node and the Dapp on it run stably, they then developed synchronization, verification, consensus and other functions between multiple nodes. After ensuring stability, they fully opened up to a community-autonomous decentralized public chain ecosystem. Let’s look at the various “epic bugs” that appeared after Ethereum, EOS and other public chains were hastily launched (Zhou Hong