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Using Crypto to Build Real-World Infrastructure

Aug 4, 2022Ā ā‹…Ā  9 min read

Crypto protocols are extremely powerful at incentivizing and coordinating human activity. This makes them extremely useful for the development of real-world decentralized infrastructure and hardware networks. This is an emerging sector known as Proof of Physical Work. Using this mechanism, protocols are building large scale networks including decentralized weather station, map, 5G, car data, and compute networks.

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Sami Kassab is an Enterprise Research Analyst focusing primarily on Web3 Infrastructure and Bitcoin. Sami previously spent 5 years as an Aerospace Engineer designing aircraft engines and missile & defense systems.

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Sami Kassab is an Enterprise Research Analyst focusing primarily on Web3 Infrastructure and Bitcoin. Sami previously spent 5 years as an Aerospace Engineer designing aircraft engines and missile & defense systems.