Visions of Blockchain Magazine Visions of Blockchain Pillar Unepisode | Page 16

From a security standpoint, a centralized system
would make it very difficult to protect the
data. So then, the decentralized architecture
of the Blockchain, without a single failure in
the latest advancement of cryptography, are
actually the last missing piece of the puzzle
that made everything possible.
Therefore, twenty years after David started talking
about it in 1997, in 2017 we offered that idea back
to the people and said we need your help, and this
product is involving you.
It’s not about me. It’s not about David.
David is obviously the big visionary behind it, and
obviously a lot of credit goes to him, but Pillar is
a grassroots movement. It’s a bottom up fix. It’s
about changing how data is owned, exchanged
and consumed.
That’s why I think it’s going to succeed. That’s why
we’re at the Unconference. What is the Unconfe-
rence?
The Unconference is the idea of coming and saying
you can come, it’s free, just come and register, and
we’re doing that in a country that is amazing.
We’re saying: be part of that. It’s about your life.
It’s your data.
Help us build this new world, step by step.
I hope today we will showcase the „Wallet” for the
first time, so this is a huge thing for us, and we are
very impatient!
Thank you again, as it’s humbling to be here,
because it’s about you.
I’m excited to meet people like you that are excited
about what we’re doing, because it’s like looking
in the mirror and getting feedback and seeing the
excitement in people and in the community, from
regulators, politicians, decision makers.
At the Blockchain Centre in Vilnius we
spoke with ministers, and at the European
Parliament. I spoke with ambassadors all over
Europe, and they’re concerned about this
topic, and intrigued by Pillar. They’re intrigued
by the idea of a foundation.
VoB: Yes, because it’s really disruptive, and a
new kind of business model. Normally, we see
the launch of a company, and the goal is to
just make profit. But your approach is totally
different. Can you explain to us how you plan
to build this ecosystem. I know that a lot of
people like us want to be involved, because
it’s really changing the world. I’m really con-
cerned about it for everyone.
For people to be completely free to actually
have a choice.
How are you managing the business
development, and the development of the
ecosystem? What do you do to realize this
ecosystem?
Tomer: It’s all about the ecosystem.
Pillar is an infrastructure provider. It’s a
protocol that we’re giving service provi-
ders the ability to build, I would call it, the
last mile between the connection of their
service and the users.
So by intermediating the notion of apps,
giving them the protocol putting the user
in the centre, you basically have a fantastic
highway, once the service provider grabs
the protocol that we’re giving, starting to
build on that there is a highway between
you as a service provider and a user.
That’s what we’re doing in direct connec-
tion between all the users, and that’s why
it’s the era of mass customisation.