Substratum my review

So as many of you know, net neutrality laws are about to be revoted on and potentially reversed (if you aren't aware of this, I highly suggest you look into it and take action in some form of another, as it's really kind of a big deal).

So in a nutshell, net neutrality means the internet offers neutral and equal access to all parts of the internet. If they repeal this, ISP providers can essentially promote content they want you to see, by either forcing you to pay more for access to certain sites, like say youtube or netflix for example. Or they can allocate their resources towards the content they want you to see.. So for example if they wanted you to use google over yahoo, they would allocate their server power towards google and make it lightning quick, while constricting server power to yahoo and making it impeding slow, effectively forcing you to use google if you want to accomplish anything in a timely fashion.

Substratum (SUB) offers a solution to the potential repeal of net neutrality, by offering a decentralized web. So let's say you work from 9-5 and sleep from 12am-7am and use the internet at your home sometime in between those hours. If you are part of the substratum network, you could offer your server/computing power to allow folks without internet access to use yours (and why not offer that service during times your internet is up and running up anyway, but you are not there to utilize it)

But I suppose we are not all intrinsically altruistic and would go out of our way to help a stranger in need of the internet. This is where the SUB token model comes into play. You will be payed out in substratum for lending out internet capacity.

It's quite a bit more technical than that, but that's the jist of it. Essentially we can get around a repeal of net neutrality by utilizing a decentralized web platform that substratum offers. And even if net neutrality approved, Substratum has an entire set of use cases/value propositions that you can check into for yourself with a cursory look over their website/whitepaper.

But none the less net neutrality is a scary political topic indeed, and it's nice it know that there are smart folks out their working out alternate solutions to our current way of doing things.