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date: 2018-09-14T21:00:00-05:00
updated: 2021-02-20T14:40:00-06:00
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            <h1>Welcome to ThreeFold</strong></h1>
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            <p>ThreeFold is a decentralized, peer-to-peer, open-source Internet platform, allowing people to provide and utilize Internet capacity directly – without intermediaries.
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            A sovereign alternative to the centralized Internet.</p>
            <button class="mx-0"><a target="_blank" href="https://manual.grid.tf/intro/intro_readme.html">Get Started</a></button>
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## Why Do We Need an Alternative?

### **Overcoming Internet Inequalities**

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The current Internet is **outdated**. It is built on a centralized antiquated foundation, which hinders scalability and efficiency.

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The current Internet is **not scalable**. Over 3 billion people lack reliable Internet access.

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The current Internet is **not sustainable**. It consumes between 5-10% of the world’s energy.

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### **Over a decade ago, a group of early Internet pioneers, <br>who understood the problems of the centralized Internet model first-hand, <br>came together to re-imagine the infrastructure for an open and decentralized Internet.**

### **But we didn't just imagine it – we built it. Join us in evolving the Internet, together.**

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### **The ThreeFold Grid v3.9**

## **Live and Operational**

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### **The ThreeFold Grid is community-owned and managed. The stack was built around principles of open-source and simplicity, and to be compatibile with current and future IT standards – from Kubernetes to Docker to IPFS and S3. It is an alternative to the centralized Internet model – a decentralized infrastructure for the builders of tomorrow.**

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## Take Action Today

### **And Create Tomorrow**

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### **Expand**

Independent people and organizations connect hardware to the ThreeFold Grid. Provide Internet capacity for the people around you, and earn for it. 

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<button>[Become a Node](/expand)</button>

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### **Build**

Developers and Sysadmins use ThreeFold technology to build, deploy, and store on top of community-owned Internet capacity. They pay with $TFT.

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### **Together**

Join a group of people around the globe who believe the world needs ThreeFold and take action to bring the project forward.

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## Support the Project

We're open-source and decentralized, so we use a token called $TFT to fuel the movement, which is the medium of exchange<br>on the ThreeFold Grid. Buy $TFT to use grid services or for future utilization.

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<button>[Dive into the Token](/token)</button>
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