Interview with Hamish Peebles - Openchat Co-Founder

In this episode we talked with Hamish Peebles, one of the three founders of Openchat.

We discussed with Hamish the vision and value proposition about Openchat, why they did the recent DAO, next steps and proposals, the advantages to create Openchat foundation, the team, how they started the project, how they can achieve a massive adoption... and much more.

Openchat is an on-chain messaging platform based on the Internet Computer blockchain. ♾️ If we can compare with something similar on the web 2 probably would be Whatsapp or Telegram.

We discussed with Hamish the vision and value proposition about Openchat, why they did the recent DAO, next steps and proposals, the advantages to create Openchat foundation, the team, how they started the project, how they can achieve massive adoption... and much more.

Openchat, the first social media 100% decentralized through SNS (Service Network System), an advanced form of algorithmic DAO developed by the DFINITY Foundation, a nonprofit steward of the Internet Computer.

Openchat advantages:

100% on-chain where the Smart contracts on the Internet Computer can securely serve interactive content to web browsers.

100% decentralized where a community DAO govern OpenChat.

Openchat does not need a phone number

Is totally free download and use the dapp

You can instantly send ICP or Bitcoins to other Openchat accounts for a standard network transaction fee of 0.0001 ICP

OpenChat runs on blockchain from end to end, and does not rely on cloud providers or centralized intermediaries to function.

Website:

https://oc.app/

SNS DAO info:

https://ffnews.com/newsarticle/funding/openchat-raises-5-5m-in-under-5-hours-via-pioneering-community-led-decentralized-fundraising-model/

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/OpenChat