Since Blockchain became well-known to the public back in the bull-run in 2017, many developer teams have started to develop blockchain-based products and applications that can be used not only by crypto users, as before 2017, but also by mass users. From that point on, the question asked frequently in the blockchain developer community is: which product models are fit to be decentralized so that decentralization can help to solve mass users’ current problems?
The answer to this question can be found from the story of Dr. Li Wenliang in China in the middle of coronavirus pandemic time recently. The story led to the wide wake of the user’s freedom to vocalize their thoughts on social networks. There is a need for a new kind of social network where user can actually share their minds and announce to the whole world about what is going on around them. So, it is time for decentralized social networks started to become one of the most in-high-need blockchain-based products.
Coronavirus time raises the demand for decentralized social network
China on Thursday released the report of an investigation conducted by the National Supervisory Commission into issues concerning doctor Li Wenliang. According to the report, in December 2019 several hospitals in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, received a certain number of patients with pneumonia of unknown cause. Li was the doctor who directly received reports of these patients.
Soon after receiving information forwarded to him by a colleague, Li posted in one of his WeChat chat groups text messages including “seven SARS cases were confirmed at Huanan fruits and seafood market”, a photo and a video clip. He later sent more messages to the chat group: “According to the latest information, it is confirmed to be coronavirus infection. The type of the virus is being determined.”
However, within days, local police paid him a visit and reprimanded him for the posts. He signed a statement on Jan. 3, a copy of which has circulated online in China, in which he acknowledges making “false statements.”
“This is a type of illegal behavior!” the statement said. Days later, Li was hospitalized with a coronavirus infection. Soon after that, coronavirus became one of the worst global pandemic outbreaks in recent 60 years.
The situation in China is very clear. Chinese government blocks the voice of citizens on the covid-19. In the country where all social channels & social networks are controlled closely by the government, there is literally no place where the citizens can vocalize their thoughts.
The root of the problem is even brought to light more when we deep-dive into the operation of social networks. They are all centralized, which means that even ordinary users are creators of contents, the owners of the product are ones deciding whether the contents are appropriate and should be considered to still exist. Let’s imagine if Wechat allows Chinese people to spread the real words about the situation in China, the China government would definitely find a way to prevent these content from being seen. Some consequences can happen, the content can be completely deleted or distorted. The identification of the content creators might be tracked and they might be put into jail.
The bottom line here is as long as social networks, online places where all people are using to share their minds, are still centralized, there is still no total freedom for user rights.
The world needs a new kind of social network in which all citizens of all countries can vocalize their thoughts or announce to all the world what is happening around them while their identification and are still protected. This is where Empow can fill the missing piece with its 100% decentralized characteristic.
What is the Empow social network?
Empow is a blockchain-based social platform focusing on all types of visual & interactive images, videos, and GIFs. The Empow website and Empow app are attractive places for content creators in the new generation. With Empow, anyone can create their own page, post images, videos, or GIFs in their style, and react to others’ content.Most importantly, content creators won’t ever have to contribute to the Empow platform for free. The EM tokens flowing all over the corners of Empow social network fuel and help the network to operate smoothly. Every content that creators make on Empow platform will always be rewarded with the EM tokens. By increasing the total balance of EM, users will have more bandwidth for doing more actions on Empow, for example, running ads on the Empow platform, or simply selling EM tokens on exchanges to get profit. It’s such a motivating mechanism that facilitates a fairer social platform and encourages the content creators community to contribute to Empow.
So, in a nutshell, the Empow decentralized social network provides users one-of-the-kind social platform experiences:
- You can enjoy the playground full of trending visuals & interactive images, videos, and GIFs.
- Your user database is not owned by any third party but you. You have full ownership of your database and no individual or organization can violate your rights.
- Unlike centralized social networks where you don’t get anything from what you contribute, Empow grants you rewards when contributing to the platform. The rewards you receive are not just some kind of money but the right to control the Empow platform (the right to run ads on Empow for example). So, it is clear that Empow is created for users and by users.
The Empow blockchain: An ultra-fast & efficient decentralized network guaranteeing the operation of Empow social network
Empow learns the way to build a successful decentralized social network from Steemit. Back in the time when Steemit was launched, the team also launched the Steem blockchain. Although the Steem ecosystem has many members now, the blockchain was created first and foremost to serve the operation of the Steemit social network.
The Empow team didn’t choose current blockchains as the infrastructure technology. They have successfully built the new public blockchain named Empow, tailor-made merely for Empow social network (You can check out the explorer site of Empow blockchain here) The Empow blockchain implements the scalable Proof of Believability consensus mechanism. With the most innovative consensus at the moment, the Empow blockchain is truly a high-throughput, high-performance, and low latency decentralized network. Benefiting from that, the Empow social network, without the low-speed and the high-latency, can support millions of actions from users at a time, comparable to giants like Facebook, Youtube or Twitter.
Along with that, Empow blockchain stores all users’ data on the distributed ledger. It is a way to help store users’ data on Empow platform sustainably with safety, no matter how much the user base of Empow grows.
The Empow social network connects directly to the Empow blockchain, so every Empow blockchain ID can become an ID on Empow platform and start to post content & earn money right from their Empow wallet address. No registration process or KYC submitting needed, which helps the database of Empow users to be protected at the highest level. Also, thanks to the instant connection between the 2 types of ID, new users don’t need to pay any extra fee to activate their Empow social network accounts.
Conclusion
Being the new player in the market, Empow is the very first visual & interactive-content-focused decentralized social network in the Blockchain space. Taking a different approach compared to other competitors, Empow focuses only on visual & interactive content. Users of the Empow social network can become creative content creators and earn money for their contribution as EM tokens.
In the infrastructure technology, to guarantee the most effective operation for the Empow social network, the team has built successfully the Empow blockchain with the scalable Proof of Believability consensus mechanism and a system for storing platform databases like images or videos. With this design, the Empow blockchain is an ultra-fast & very efficient decentralized network, helping the Empow social network to be able to serve millions of users without the low-speed or latency.
Empow’s channels link
Here is where you can find out more information about Empow:
- Website:
https://empow.io/- Empow blockchain explorer:
http://emscan.io/- Twitter:
https://twitter.com/EmpowNetwork- Telegram:
https://t.me/empowofficial
- Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Empowofficial/
