This Tiny Gadget is a VPN for Life...

quick disclaimer today we're gonna be

talking about a product that has

implications when it comes to

your internet connection

your own personal privacy

uh your security on the internet

and then there's even a crypto element

to it as well

so if you're uncomfortable with any of

those uh concepts or topics you can go

ahead and take off

if you're curious about it you can watch

the video and then do some of your own

research in order to be responsible it's

a different type of content for the

channel and the reason i was willing to

do it is because the cmo of the company

actually traveled here in order in order

to answer some of my questions

in relationship to this product it's an

emerging space so

you should totally be skeptical and i

just wanted to make sure to put that

warning at the front of this video so

you uh feel

fairly

warm

consider yourself warned so today we're

talking about a product that is a little

bit unusual for the channel it's

something i haven't seen before it is a

hardware vpn device capable of mining a

little bit of crypto look i got the

pitch for this product and i decided

that in order to get the whole story i

was going to invite the cmo of the

company to the studio in order to

describe the variety of features in this

device

this is an interesting product that

you've brought here today so the pico

itself

is a hardware device that allows people

to have cyber security

it also has the dpn feature the

decentralized vpn okay and it's a it's a

peer-to-peer um

vpn so no longer are we dealing with

centralized vpns it's more secure it's

more private and you're basically your

own client and your own server it's

called the deeper connect pico and this

is a tiny little hardware vpn so you're

probably familiar with vpns they call

their hardware vpn a dpn because it's

decentralized there's a number of these

devices and previous generation devices

out there in the wild connected to

networks across the globe you can

log in to some other connection and some

other geography for the same reasons you

would typically use a vpn but instead

you're going to do that in a

decentralized fashion by connecting to

another node another piece of hardware

you're going to do it with this device

here essentially what you're ending up

with is a hardware-based

vpn right now as we're still growing we

have over 55 000 nodes around the world

in over 150 countries when you say nodes

does that mean these devices that is one

node in your hand cool yeah

when you are connected to a node and you

find that hey maybe it's not as fast as

you want you can actually switch ips or

you can there's different settings that

you can adjust to and connect to faster

nodes does this compare to

like a typical vpn service or would it

would there be a performance hit i would

say it's it's faster oh really yeah it's

faster in the sense that

um traditional vpn has just like when we

travel for work they they have high

traffic periods when people are getting

off work and they're at home and it gets

really congested

but through our network because it is

more pure to pure

that doesn't really happen as much

because you're connecting to different

nodes not one centralized server

so

as we continue to grow it's going to be

better than centralized vpn

and on top of that

there is no subscription so you buy the

device then you don't have to there's no

monthly subscription like you have with

uh centralized vpns

so it's you buy it and you can use it

for life

i understand the benefit of connecting

to some geography for the purpose of

unlocking content that may be censored

in a region that i'm in but why would i

keep this connected and allow somebody

else to connect to me and that's where

the crazy crypto component comes in if

you share your connection what you're

essentially doing is using your

bandwidth supplying it to someone else

and then generating their very own token

which they're calling dpr

individuals who have this hardware are

essentially

contributing

their connection

their bandwidth and then the question is

well what do they get for it right and

that's where this piece comes in you're

saying

they're actually mining through allowing

others to use their connection that's

right it's an incentive to peop for

people to share

their their bandwidth and as more and

more people we are projected for

instance to hit 1 million nodes by the

end of 2024

by that time with so many nodes on the

network

it's going to make it easier and easier

for people to connect and to use

and to share their bandwidth

and

it will become a lot more useful more

robust more secure what do people do

with this dpr that they get

whatever you want like cryptocurrency

you know it's

it's basically another cryptocurrency

but

this one has a real use case

i just

get curious about

within that ecosystem if there isn't a

way to apply it back what you've earned

right for some sort of

advantage within the network so in order

to use the team right now we're still

growing so we're not charging any

subscription

there's very little micro payments which

is the payments of dpr to use but once

we're

reached a certain amount of nodes in

order to use the dpn you have to have

small payments of dpr so if for instance

lou if i'm using your node

and you're sharing your bandwidth you

have a great bandwidth you set it at a

price that's 1 100th of what vpns cost

i connect to it i have to pay you

some dpr and because you're sharing it

with me you earn that dpr that's the

marketplace right so there's some

sustain sustainability there

decentralized advertising if i want to

advertise on the network

instead of paying a third party like

google or youtube or facebook

i just basically there's a platform that

i'm able to upload my

ads

and from that

i have to pay a little bit of dpr and

that dpr goes to as a reward for the

people who are viewing and interacting

with our ads so that's a another

sharing economy that we're creating

there

so you can use it to directly apply to

the network it's crazy so everybody's

essentially their own

everyone becomes their own mini vpn

that's right exactly

exactly and that's what web3 is about

you are owning your own

service right yep well i

i have to go out of my way to do full

disclosure here i do not

have any dpr myself so this is not one

of those situations where i'm trying to

uh just like get a boatload of people on

board so that it personally benefits me

but like a lot of different crypto

projects there's all sorts of plans for

how to create an ecosystem around

this dpr including ways in which you

could unlock increased or improved

bandwidth there's an ad blocker built

into this a decentralized video platform

but you know how it gets into crypto

space it's very ambitious it's gonna be

able to do this and then that i prefer

to talk about it in terms of what it can

do right now and what it can do right

now is behave

like a vpn in a hardware form without a

subscription service buy it connect it

use it and you're not paying a monthly

fee now this tiny guy is the littlest

one that they've ever made it has a

number of connection points on it so

there's four total usb type-c ports you

can connect it directly to your device

you can connect it directly to your

modem and have all of your connections

travel through it one of the ports is

used for this here which is a tiny

little antenna you can create your very

own hotspot so this thing kind of

behaves

like your router and this is because

there are security features in here you

may be on some sort of uh public

connection like at a coffee shop you can

use this in order to utilize those

security features and then share that

newly secure connection with

whichever devices are around you

mobile device

laptop

friends connections and things like this

cyber security is huge

having an enterprise level enterprise

class cyber security in your home

network

um without having to pay thousands and

thousands for it is a huge benefit

because of the remote work situation now

more and more people are working from

home and working on the road

having cyber security to protect the

data that they have whether it's their

work data or their own personal data is

becoming more and more

important for everyone it has a seven

layer firewall with deep packet

inspection which will

further enhance and protect your ip

compared to

just the regular

vpn which does not do that in vpn you

can only have one tunnel at a time so if

you have a big family and say you lou

want to watch something from

um

from i don't know china for some reason

and

one of your family members is trying to

lock into to you know to europe

you're gonna have to switch that vpn and

break you have to choose one but our

smart route allows for multiple tunnels

to be connected at the same time so that

you don't have to yeah and you can

actually customize

the vpn the dpn so that when you go to a

particular domain it will route to that

country so that you don't ever have to

deal with it it just will know it

if you need even faster connectivity

you're probably going to step up to this

one there's no adapter necessary on this

unit you're still going to get power

and an ethernet cable the pico is their

fourth generation so they've been

launching products for a little while

and there are circumstances where you

might find yourself

in a particular region that's combating

uh playing cat and mouse with

your

typical high profile premium vpn

software

and

that was actually his origin story with

the company how he got involved he was

exposed to some of these hardware

alternatives and was actually able to

continue to use his applications in

those places that were cracking down at

the time on some of those premium vpn

services vpn is the first killer app

that we have developed on the blockchain

for this device and

the reason that dpn was first developed

is because in order to build our web 3

we are a web 3 project

it's all dependent on the inability to

be centered so by having the dpn that

sets the the framework for that what do

you mean by sensor give me an example of

censored so for instance you might live

in a country that doesn't allow you to

view certain

websites

or you might live in a country where

there's copyright censorship where you

know you're trying to view

an mba

program or something like that and you

can't because of the country you live in

okay these are just some small ways that

you're censored some some are a little

bit more serious where you don't have

access to anything i mean you can go to

certain countries and you don't have

access to facebook google and all those

things

so

by having the inability to be censored

now we are able to build our web3

platform and one of the first platforms

we'll be launching this year is our

decentralized advertising

and we have as one of the features on

the devices you can block ads

and you can replace these pop-up ads

banner ads even youtube ads with network

ads and these network ads can come from

third party or it can come from users as

well and

the reason it's decentralized is that

it's web3 is because people now

can be

um

they can earn

by watching these ads so what theory is

about ownership and your time for

watching in your attention

you can be paid in crypto tokens for

your time so when you're interacting

with an ad

you're earning dpr this is the thing

that

you envision

being around for a long time yes this is

this is a thing that people don't have

to be apprehensive about absolutely

you know i think we're coming from the

traditional side of things with our ceo

russell he

was

a head of research at some of the the

top cyber security companies in the

world in silicon valley

fortinet palo alto networks to name a

couple

he created this device first as a

consumer device that's cyber security

without blockchain at first that that

was his first development he wanted a

working product

with people actually using it

the blockchain came later as he learned

more about it and he saw the power of

um combining blockchain

network security and a sharing economy

and those three combined it creates

basically

you know gunpowder for the internet

and it creates something magical and

that's

where we came from now where we're going

now

is

we have goals to be listed on nasdaq in

the long run

and of course this will take time

but we have our sights on that so we're

going to be around for a long time

we want every household to have this

device

so that they can access web3

and open up the worlds of the internet

and have ownership

of all their data all their time

all of their attention and that's what

web3 is about it's really about

empowering the internet user

so

that's where we're heading

so there you have it it is a new company

an emerging company in a very exciting

space i think it's interesting for

people that

want to dabble a little bit want to

experiment a little bit and don't mind

kind of

being on that fringe and playing with

some new hardware it is cool to see

hardware products emerge in this space

where a lot of projects don't even

really get to that point so i was happy

to be able to invite the cmo of the

company over to hear his insight and

have him sort of participate in the

video and i also know that he happens to

be open just

to dialogue with you guys directly if

you have more questions he's on twitter

if you want to contact and find out more

about it there's the early pico you

could see down on the with the beer

bottle somebody actually made a can

opener whoa and they made that gif and

they sent it so they're quite passionate

okay yeah i guess if people just want to

follow the project as well that you're a

good person to follow yeah

follow me follow our own twitter which

is a deeper network oh look at that this

was a cool meme dpr

has web3 has dual mining has security

free dpn

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