There's no denying the fact that blockchain has completely changed the world we live in. It brings with it incredible potential for change by shifting the decision making and authority from centralized entities to a distributed environment. ArGo, a blockchain-powered, serverless app deployment platform, is playing its part in engendering this seismic shift.
ArGo puts a significant emphasis on the issue of censorship and works with special internet technology called the Permaweb. In contrast to the current web, where information is hosted on servers owned by server companies, ArGo hosts information on a decentralized blockchain platform that uses the unused hard drive space of miners in return for incentives. This allows for greater control of the data, and of course censorship resistance from entities that traditionally controlled the flow and storage of data.
Argo further revolutionizes the way in which traditional web hosting works by pushing the hosting process through peer-to-peer content delivery networks. This is quite unique and the need for a decentralized system like this is crucial, as governments and entities around the world frequently aim to control and censor the free flow of information on the internet. And given this climate, ArGo is on a mission to change how things are done.
Bid Farewell to Censorship
Arweave, a pay-once-forever storage model, is the blockchain protocol ArGo is built on top of, and the technology allows for permanence, making it the best option for archiving data. The Permaweb allows user data to be distributed among numerous miners and this decentralized structure allows for the securing of data from central control and ensures privacy.
Further, the decentralized structure of ArGo prevents tech giants like Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook from accumulating information and extracting value from it and the blockchain app and web hosting technology makes for a robust mechanism that distributes data and puts a stop to any censorship.
The Age of Decentralization
Cloud computing traditionally uses centralized architecture to provide computing power to their servers. As quoted by ResearchGate, “Problems arise concerning the collection of personal information in the Cloud and the legitimate exploitation thereof. To the extent that most of the content and software applications are only accessible online, users have no longer control over the manner in which they can access their data and the extent to which third parties can exploit it.” This is precisely why ArGo is on a mission to change this reality and give power back to the people.
In the words of the ArGo team, “We aim to make decentralized web hosting accessible — where users have more security, lower costs, and much higher redundancy.” No doubt there is immense potential in such decentralized services, and the ever increasing demand for blockchain technologies that enable distributed systems are a testament to the new reality people eagerly want and need.
Why ArGo Is Here To Stay
The deployment of the maintenance-free solution provided by ArGo has already become an instant hit within the crypto community. Recently, the company announced they had successfully raised $1.3 million in funding with a valuation of $12.5 million, placing it one step closer to realizing its dream of giving power back to ordinary web users.
With continued demand for more privacy and anti-censorship solutions, the timing is ripe for ArGo to spread its message globally. And at the rate that the world is changing, demand for decentralized services like ArGos will only continue to increase in the face of large corporations and entities accumulating user data and exploiting it for their benefit.