# Michael Thuy: Swarm City & Fair Data Society | Swarm Orange Summit Madrid 2019

- Channel: [Swarm](https://streameth.org/swarm)
- Date: 2019-10-09
- Duration: 09:28
- Topics: Michael Thuy, Swarm City, Fair Data Society, Swarm Orange Summit Madrid 2019, Ethereum, ethswarm, decentralized rideshare
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-NjjabT0-1C8
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjjabT0-1C8

## Description

Swarm City & Fair Data Society - Building Decentralized Rideshare
Michael Thuy (@kingflurkel) & Gregor Žavcer

In order to create truly decentralized, peer-to-peer ridesharing, we must have decentralized data persistence and messaging. Swarm City is currently using IPFS and Whisper respectively, but neither is robust or reliable enough to accomplish the goal. To circumvent this, Swarm City created an API bridge, but this adds centralization to the ecosystem, which is unacceptable in the long term.

With Swarm we hope to realize our long-held dream of decentralized rideshare. In doing so we can together solve not only the data persistence and messaging problems, but also scaling, and anonymity.

https://press.swarm.city/swarm-city-swarm-united-by-fair-data-society-to-build-decentralized-rideshare-fa1c1c656a37

About Michael (@kingflurkel)
Swarm.city co-founder / architect, dreaming of decentralized uncensored commerce for the world.

About Gregor Žavcer
Datafund & Fair Data Society co-founder / Believes in freedom through decentralisation. And PLUR.