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title: "Home"
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description: "A global movement together building an open-source, community-driven, decentralized Internet – from the ground up." # quotation marks to allow colons where used
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date: 2018-09-14T21:00:00-05:00
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updated: 2021-02-20T14:40:00-06:00
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draft: false
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extra:
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author: Your name here
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imgPath: images/threefold_globe.png
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---
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<!-- section 1 (header) -->
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{% row(style="left wide") %}
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<br>
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<br>
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### 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.
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<button>[How It Works](https://manual.grid.tf/intro/grid3_howitworks.html)</button>
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<button>[Get Started](https://manual.grid.tf/intro/intro_readme.html)</button>
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<br>
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{% end %}
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{% row(style="center mtop narrow") %}
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## Why Do We Need an Alternative?
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{% row(style="center narrow") %}
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### **Outdated.**
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The current Internet is built on a centralized antiquated foundation, hindering scalability and efficiency.
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### **Not equal.**
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Over 3 billion people lack reliable Internet access.
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### **Not sustainable.**
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The current Internet consumes between 5-10% of the world’s energy.
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{% end %}
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{% row(style="center narrow mtop") %}
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## Evolving the Internet, Together
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### Over a decade ago, a group of early Internet pioneers, who understood the problems of the centralized Internet model first-hand, came together to re-imagine the infrastructure for an open and decentralized Internet.
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### But we didn't just imagine it – we built it.
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{% end %}
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<!-- section 2 (Map) -->
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{% grid_stats() %}
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### The ThreeFold Grid v3.9.0
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## **Live and Operational**
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{% row(style="center mbottom narrow") %}
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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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{% end %}
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{% row(style="center narrow") %}
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## Take Action Today
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### **Expand**
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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](/farmnew)</button>
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### **Build**
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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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<button>[Build on the Platform](/buildnew)</button>
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### **Together**
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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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<button>[Join the Community](/community)</button>
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{% row(bgColor="#abfcd5" style="center margin") %}
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<br>
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## Support the Project
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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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<br>
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<button>[Dive into the Token](/tft)</button>
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<button>[Buy $TFT](https://library.threefold.me/info/threefold#/tokens/threefold__token_howtos)</button>
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<br>
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{% end %} |