The darknet is mostly databases, and such. Backend stuff.
I expect you're aware that money isn't my top priority, so much so that I've never spent a satoshi of Steem. It's peoples ideas I value, as the truth is better than gold.
Giggle was funded by the CIA. It's primarily a data harvesting operation, while growing a substantial sideline in propaganda and censorship. The ad business is mostly a way for gummint to launder the funding.
Why should a blockchain only be useful if decentralized? There are numerous proprietary and private blockchain applications. The blockchain makes data persistent, and data is what Fakebook is all about, too, just like Giggle. I doubt Twatter is much different, if far less profitable.
With a FakeCoin, ZuckerBorg needn't worry much about Steemit. With two billion users, he can establish global adoption of the currency Fakebook users receive. He can make it a game for one whale to profit from, rather than 38, too.
ETH and BTC aren't competitive with Steem as currencies, except in price, as they were earlier and have folks committed stakes already. Cryptokitties broke ETH. BTC was just crashed by the banksters, just weeks after they started the futures market for it.
You'd think with equities tanking, BTC would have mooned. Same with metals. They didn't because derivatives potentiate control of the underlying asset.
Now that they have control of BTC, they're starting to accept it as payment for taxes. That's pretty much the definition of what makes something actually money: that you can pay taxes with it.
He'd be an idiot not to use hashgraph, which would be highly resilient, the fastest xfer option, and is the next best thing in cryptocurrency mechanisms.
Even if I made a million Steem, I wouldn't want to see what kind of world would come from FakeCoin, especially in the hands of his Chinese patrons.
Too bad I can't do a damn thing about it but bitch.
Isn't the 'darknet' just the internet with a layer of privacy protection.
I don't see anything dark there.
And facebook on cypto doesn't really make sense, they make money on peoples privacy.
SuckerBorg had the chance to do the right thing for many years, he chose not to. He wasted his chance on any trust. If had done the right thing in the first place , then would steemit exist?
But greed has long arms... Lets see what happens
The deep web is just that part of the network that isn't assigned IP addresses, sorta. That's about the only layer of privacy protection to it. Most of it is literally databases, and the like.
I reckon that's what we were talking about, as the darknet, those anarchic sites that deliberately avoid the 'surface web' and tend to lawlessness, is literally tiny. The deep web is huge, and the darknet is a itsy bitsy part of it.