else to connect to me and that's where the crazy crypto component comes in if you share your connection what you're essentially doing is using your bandwidth supplying it to someone else and then generating their very own token which they're calling dpr individuals who have this hardware are essentially contributing their connection their bandwidth and then the question is well what do they get for it right and that's where this piece comes in you're saying they're actually mining through allowing others to use their connection that's right it's an incentive to peop for people to share their their bandwidth and as more and more people we are projected for instance to hit 1 million nodes by the end of 2024 by that time with so many nodes on the network it's going to make it easier and easier for people to connect and to use and to share their bandwidth and it will become a lot more useful more robust more secure what do people do with this dpr that they get whatever you want like cryptocurrency you know it's it's basically another cryptocurrency but this one has a real use case i just get curious about within that ecosystem if there isn't a way to apply it back what you've earned right for some sort of advantage within the network so in order to use the team right now we're still growing so we're not charging any subscription there's very little micro payments which is the payments of dpr to use but once we're reached a certain amount of nodes in order to use the dpn you have to have small payments of dpr so if for instance lou if i'm using your node and you're sharing your bandwidth you have a great bandwidth you set it at a price that's 1 100th of what vpns cost i connect to it i have to pay you some dpr and because you're sharing it with me you earn that dpr that's the marketplace right so there's some sustain sustainability there decentralized advertising if i want to advertise on the network instead of paying a third party like google or youtube or facebook i just basically there's a platform that i'm able to upload my ads and from that i have to pay a little bit of dpr and that dpr goes to as a reward for the people who are viewing and interacting with our ads so that's a another sharing economy that we're creating there so you can use it to directly apply to the network it's crazy so everybody's essentially their own everyone becomes their own mini vpn that's right exactly exactly and that's what web3 is about you are owning your own service right yep well i have to go out of my way to do full disclosure here i do not have any dpr myself so this is not one of those situations where i'm trying to uh just like get a boatload of people on board so that it personally benefits me but like a lot of different crypto projects there's all sorts of plans for how to create an ecosystem around this dpr including ways in which you could unlock increased or improved bandwidth there's an ad blocker built into this a decentralized video platform but you know how it gets into crypto space it's very ambitious it's gonna be able to do this and then that i prefer to talk about it in terms of what it can do right now and what it can do right now is behave like a vpn in a hardware form without a subscription service buy it connect it use it and you're not paying a monthly fee now this tiny guy is the littlest one that they've ever made it has a number of connection points on it so there's four total usb type-c ports you can connect it directly to your device you can connect it directly to your modem and have all of your connections travel through it one of the ports is used for this here which is a tiny little antenna you can create your very own hotspot so this thing kind of behaves like your router and this is because there are security features in here you may be on some sort of uh public connection like at a coffee shop you can use this in order to utilize those security features and then share that newly secure connection with whichever devices are around you mobile device laptop friends connections and things like this cyber security is huge having an enterprise level enterprise class cyber security in your home network um without having to pay thousands and thousands for it is a huge benefit because of the remote work situation now more and more people are working fromhome and working on the road having cyber security to protect the data that they have whether it's their work data or their own personal data is becoming more and more important for everyone it has a seven layer firewall with deep packet inspection which will further enhance and protect your ip compared to just the regular vpn which does not do that in vpn you can only have one tunnel at a time so if you have a big family and say you lou want to watch something from um from i don't know china for some reason and one of your family members is trying to lock into to you know to Europe you're gonna have to switch that vpn and break you have to choose one but our smart route allows for multiple tunnels to be connected at the same time so that you don't have to yeah and you can actually customize the vpn the dpn so that when you go to a particular domain it will route to that country so that you don't ever have to deal with it it just will know it if you need even faster connectivity you're probably going to step up to this one there's no adapter necessary on this unit you're still going to get power and an ethernet cable the pico is their fourth generation so they've been launching products for a little while and there are circumstances where you might find yourself in a particular region that's combating uh playing cat and mouse with your typical high profile premium vpn software and that was actually his origin story with the company how he got involved he was exposed to some of these hardware alternatives and was actually able to continue to use his applications in those places that were cracking down at the time on some of those premium vpn services vpn is the first killer app that we have developed on the blockchain for this device and the reason that dpn was first developed is because in order to build our web 3 we are a web 3 project it's all dependent on the inability to be centered so by having the dpn that sets the the framework for that what do you mean by sensor give me an example of censored so for instance you might live in a country that doesn't allow you to view certain websites or you might live in a country where there's copyright censorship where you know you're trying to view an mba program or something like that and you can't because of the country you live in okay these are just some small ways that you're censored some some are a little bit more serious where you don't have access to anything i mean you can go to certain countries and you don't have access to facebook google and all those things so by having the inability to be censored now we are able to build our web3 platform and one of the first platforms we'll be launching this year is our decentralized advertising and we have as one of the features on the devices you can block ads and you can replace these pop-up ads banner ads even youtube ads with network ads and these network ads can come from third party or it can come from users as well and the reason it's decentralized is that it's web3 is because people now can be um they can earn by watching these ads so what theory is about ownership and your time for watching in your attention you can be paid in crypto tokens for your time so when you're interacting with an ad you're earning dpr this is the thing that you envision being around for a long time yes this is this is a thing that people don't have to be apprehensive about absolutely you know i think we're coming from the traditional side of things with our ceo russell he was a head of research at some of the the top cyber security companies in the world in silicon valley fortinet palo alto networks to name a couple he created this device first as a consumer device that's cyber security without blockchain at first that that was his first development he wanted a working product with people actually using it the blockchain came later as he learned more about it and he saw the power of um combining blockchain network security and a sharing economy and those three combined it creates basically you know gunpowder for the internet and it creates something magical and that's where we came from now where we're going now is we have goals to be listed on nasdaq in the long run and of course this will take time but we have our sights on that so we're going to be around for a long time we want every household to have this device so that they can access web3 and open up the worlds of the internet and have ownership of all their data all their time all of their attention and that's what web3 is about it's really about empowering the internet user so that's where we're heading so there you have it it is a new company an emerging company in a very exciting space i think it's interesting for people that want to dabble a little bit want to experiment a little bit and don't mind kind of being on that fringe and playing with some new hardware it is cool to see hardware products emerge in this space where a lot of projects don't even really get to that point so i was happy to be able to invite the cmo of the company over to hear his insight and have him sort of participate in the video and i also know that he happens to be open just to dialogue with you guys directly if you have more questions he's on twitter if you want to contact and find out more about it there's the early pico you could see down on the with the beer bottle somebody actually made a can opener whoa and they made that gif and they sent it so they're quite passionate okay yeah i guess if people just want to follow the project as well that you're a good person to follow yeah follow me follow our own twitter which is a deeper network oh look at that this was a cool meme dpr has web3 has dual mining has security free dpn i don't know if you guys know what means