There is an old saying that real information is worth more than gold. In today's big business we can say that data is gold, or like they love to say in Datum - Data is the!) new oil!

Let me tell you one short story.

It is a story about 3 persons.

The first person was giving all his information for free and sharing them all around not thinking about that how they are worth a lot of money.

The second one was collecting that pieces of information and selling them to the third person who was interested in them.

After analyzing all pieces of information third person was making and selling products based on them.

At the end of this story, second and third persons got rich - Really, big time rich and lived happily ever after.

The first person just got exploited.

So as all of us already know big companies want to get in the heads their users and potential users that way they will get information what to make and how to sell it to make a profit. Without real information, companies are tapping in the dark and gambling with their future. So all successful companies are buying data about their clients from the internet and making their products and sales based on that data. If there are any of you not knowing this already, I am sorry & welcome to the 21. century. I won't talk about all the privacy issues here but by now you should realize there is none of it on the web.

It is then really strange that this was going on for all these years and no one tried to change it and make something for all of us small guys and data providers fueling all this system for years and not receiving anything from it. Well at least they could send us a box of candies once a year and small pink card with big thanks on it - That would be something. Some calculations are saying that personal data of just one individual is worth more than 2000$/year. Please think about this number and the number of individuals being exploited this way. Just imagine that someone was paying you that amount for your private data for last 20 years. That is 40 000$ that someone made on you!

It is time to STOP this exploit now...

Gamechanger is here and his name is DATUM

How will DATUM help us small guys and protect our data?

Datum team (https://datum.org/) is making uncentralized network where all your data will be stored securely so you can make decisions will you share it with anyone and under what conditions. This way your privacy is fully protected and you can get rewarded for sharing your data with someone you choose and make money on it.

In short, it will work this way. First, you as a user will submit your data and storage node miners will save it and earn DAT tokens this way. If you decide to sell your data then a smart contract will be used for the buyer to get it and you will be paid in DAT tokens that then you can sell on open market.

If you are interested in Datum technology I will tell you just that Datum is decentralized and distributed high-performance NOSQL database backed by blockchain ledger. All other tech stuff you can see on their website or in a chat with the great community gathered around this project. If you are interested in it please check them on social media ar their official blog (https://blog.datum.org/.) They have Telegram with more than 3000 members, Twitter with almost 10000 followers and Facebook with more than 26 000 Likes.

And do you know what the best thing is?

You can be part of DATUM it if you invest in upcoming token sale starting on October 17. 2017. and going on for one month or when Datum reaches their top cap of 153 000 ETH. Their presale went really good, they sold all tokens worth 5000 ETH in no time. I must say that I really love the idea of giving power back to the people - the hands where it belongs and I personally will invest in Datum. The team is looking good and ready to deliver, their roadmap is telling us that launch of the main net will be done in June 2018. and they are entering in the really big market.

For more info and details I encourage you to read their 28 pages long whitepaper which is really great explaining you how will all work with Datum client, data validation, tokens economics, smart contracts, nods storage and much more. One more thing for you to do is sign in on https://datum.org/ and get some free tokens.

I will make one more blog with more details about Datum project at the start of the token sale, but with all info, I gather preparing this blog I must say that they look really impressive.

Would like to know your opinion, so leave a comment and tell us what do you think about DATUM?

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