# Decentralized Media, a panel with Balaji Srinivasan, Juan Benet, and Vitalik Buterin

- Speakers: [Vitalik Buterin](https://streameth.org/speakers/vitalik-buterin), [Juan Benet](https://streameth.org/speakers/juan-benet)
- Channel: [ETHGlobal](https://streameth.org/ethglobal)
- Date: 2021-10-09
- Duration: 1:21:39
- Topics: #ethereum, #Vitalik, #Vitalik Buterin, #Juan Benet, #HackFS, #ETHGlobal, Balaji Srinivasan, #Filecoin, #Protocol Labs
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-v0mwbNhmlEA
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0mwbNhmlEA

## Description

As part of the HackFS 2021 July 30th Kickoff event,  Balaji Srinivasan, Juan Benet, and Vitalik Buterin joined Kartik Talwar of ETHGlobal as he moderated a panel discussion on Decentralized Media. HackFS 2021 is a three-week virtual hackathon focused on building a digital world that is censorship-resistant, decentralized, and trustless. For HackFS, ETHGlobal has partnered with Protocol Labs - the organization building Filecoin and IPFS - to run an event centered on dapps, web3, decentralized storage, and everything in between.

For more about HackFS 2021 go to:  https://hackfs.com/

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Sections
0:00- Intro
9:34 - What has happened since HackFS 2020?
12:15 - The importance of decentralized social media
30:25 - Incentive structures in decentralized social media
37:31 - Calculating the cost of truth
1:04:30 - Pseudonymity in decentralized social media
1:16:00 - What should hackers build for HackFS 2021?

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