Here's a transcript of the conversation as well.
Part 1
Robert: [00:00:00] Hi, my name is Robert Douglas, and I'm here with "starkerz" or Matt. Nice to meet you. We are talking together for the very first time and it's 100 percent due to Matt's generosity because I jumped into the SPK Network Telegram chat and just announced myself as a complete noob. And before I knew it, I had the offer to just go one-on-one with somebody from the community to answer all my noob questions. And that's what this show is going to be about is my new questions about the SPK network, what it is, where it's going, where it came from, et cetera. But I just wanted to say, really, thank you, Matt, for giving me this time to talk to you and pick your brain and fill in the gaps in my knowledge and hopefully somebody out there watching can benefit from that as well.
Matt: [00:00:51] Hopefully. So hopefully, we saw you in in the chat and you were asking some interesting questions that seemed like you had a bit of a background and certainly passion interest in Web3. So for me, I'm very, very happy to reach out to guys that have got something kind of some kind of foreknowledge and insight into what this thing where this thing is going. And if you're a newbie as it were, if we can help speed you along that way and like you say, at the same time, you help someone else to understand a little bit more about where Web3 is going, then I'm very, very, very, very happy to have a chat with you.
Robert: [00:01:24] Amazing. So I found the SPK Network through the Hive network, which was really day one of my exploration of that as well. It was recommended to me from a friend who's blogging on it. So maybe it would be really good to just start with what is the Hive network?
Matt: [00:01:44] Yeah, OK. I mean, it's there's a long history, but to cut it really short for your viewers, essentially what Hive is, it's a foundation for Web3 where and this is just my definition of it. I'm just a user of the technology, so there might be other guys that have slightly different definitions of it. But basically the way I see it is that it's it's a system whereby you have a distributed layer. So like bitcoin is on a distributed layer and that allows you to transact value together without any middleman or any trust required. Well, Hive is a Web3 social media protocol allows you to own your social media account on a distributed layer that hasn't got a company or a mine or vested interest that control the the the distribution layer. So as a result, you've got this kind of freedom anarchistic layer upon which your social media account can sit and then other apps kind of plug into that and you're allowed to use your your accounts, which is separate from the from the applications in the platforms to log into those platforms and use them so you can move the same account between the platforms. And as a result of that, you have all of your follower lists on the blockchain, your your assets, your history, your content. It's on the blockchain. So these platforms aren't able to control your social media account in the same way that the traditional web two systems can't.
Robert: [00:03:05] Right. So I just put the URL to the Hive ecosystem up there. It's Hive.io, and there are some apps built on there that are really notable. Like, I think the peakd.com. That's a blogging system, right?
Matt: [00:03:25] Correct. Yeah, correct.