{"id":12186,"date":"2022-03-29T19:43:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T19:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=12186"},"modified":"2022-03-29T19:43:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T19:43:43","slug":"altcoin-project-backed-by-billionaire-chamath-palihapitiya-rips-124-in-hours-after-reaching-1500000-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=12186","title":{"rendered":"Altcoin Project Backed by Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya Rips 124% in Hours After Reaching 1,500,000 Users"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A decentralized social media project that has received support from billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya is surging after reaching a major milestone.<\/p>\n

In a new press release, Decentralized Social (DESO) says<\/a> that over 1.5 million accounts have been created on its platform.<\/p>\n

The layer-1 blockchain project aims to redefine the nature of social media applications by resolving scalability limitations as well as protecting users and content creators from centralized authorities.<\/p>\n

Decentralized Social is open-source and stores all data on-chain, with plans to change its consensus model from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS). It also offers a new decentralized autonomous organization launcher called DAODAO.<\/p>\n

DeSo founder Nader Al-Naji says,<\/p>\n

\u201cWith these new updates, we move closer to a world in which social media is not controlled by three centralized companies, but instead, is owned by the users and creators of the network.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The news of DeSo\u2019s growth comes just days after Tesla CEO and crypto influencer Elon Musk took to Twitter to ask<\/a> if users thought the platform adhered to free speech principles. At time of writing, 70.4% of poll respondents have answered \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n

Decentralized Social is one of a number of rising social media platforms seeking to be a more censorship-resistant alternative to other Big Tech platforms.<\/p>\n

Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya mentioned<\/a> DeSo back in October as part of his basket of investments to hedge against inflation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very concerned about medium-term inflation\u2026 I want to own three things: hypergrowth [firms]\u2026 cash-generative assets\u2026 and then I want to own non-correlated assets: Bitcoin, Solana, DESO, a lot of the DeFi [decentralized finance] protocols because it\u2019s a great counter-intuitive hedge\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The project changed its name from BitClout last summer and raised over $200 million, including<\/a> from venture capital firm Social Capital.<\/p>\n

Decentralized Social<\/a> is up 21.73% on the day and trading for $50.02. The altcoin was trading around the $31 level for most of the past week before exploding by 124% from the $37 mark to a high of $83.15 early on Monday.<\/p>\n

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