 All right. Hello everybody. My name is Sean Wilkinson. I'm the founder of storage and we're talking today about decentralizing GitHub. So how many people raise your hand? Use GitHub. Okay, great. Great tool, great platform. Now imagine one day you wake up, you have a nice cup of tea, your coffee, and you log in and Your account has been banned on GitHub. You can't access any of your repositories. You can't download any of your code. It's this all gone and there's nothing you can do. This is not a hypothetical situation for some people. In 2019 people in Crimea developers just had their accounts blocked. As you know, GitHub got acquired by Microsoft. I got some some lawyers got bored. They figured, what are we gonna do today? We can't work you know commercially with these countries due to sanction laws and they interpret that. Okay, let's ban all these users in these countries. So such a ship. Not that great. Not that great. There's other examples of this. 2014, Russia, someone posted something on GitHub that Russia didn't like. So they disbanded the site entirely. Obviously they brought it back. But for a week or so, people weren't developers weren't able to access GitHub. Many other examples, 2015, 16, 2017, 2018, 2019, where for whatever reason, or a cup goes down, fires today. So this sounds like a familiar problem in the industry that we're trying to deal with. Centralization, right? And you know, GitHub just has a lot of control over this platform that we use and we really depend on to build out these next-gen applications and that's not that great. Again, there's a lot of concern by many people in the community that, you know, Microsoft will do what they did with LinkedIn and one day you'll wake up. So this is a problem. Like first this happens to somebody else, but it can happen to any of us. And so we need to act now. We need to do something about this. We need to decentralize GitHub. So how should we go about that? Well, I think we should go about it as we just download all of GitHub. All in its entire stories and stick it in a decentralized platform, a decentralized data store so that it goes down or they decide to arbitrarily block accounts and ban accounts. At least you can get your code out and take it somewhere else I get that. So I go through this process the last couple of months, which essentially caches all the public metadata and actions. So from there, you can kind of get a list of pretty much anyone who's been active on GitHub since 2015 and then you can publicly get HubAPI to get all the repositories. And we can download them into a decentralized data storage platform. Storage. And then we can make this accessible to many people again in the case that people lose access to their repositories on GitHub or BlockBand or GitHub goes down, we can get access to this data. So we may also get back up and store it on storage and then make that accessible both through our platform and then we're also looking at making it accessible through things like I get that. So if this website is ever back, you can still get to the data. So this data is way out of date. To date, we've downloaded about 300,000 repositories. We're storing about 30 gigabytes of information and we're tracking about 50,000 users. So this is just how much data we downloaded pretty much this week. So the pace at which we're accelerating and downloading data is growing and increasing pace. So we'll probably have at least a million users downloaded by the end of the year. So I encourage you to jump on your phone or just all you have to do is put your GitHub username and hit sync. And we'll back in next time. GitHub decides to do something like man, users arbitrarily and not give them access to their code. At least now we have a backup option. So thanks for listening.