机遇之网

Intro 介绍

If you lived before the internet, you might remember a time when opportunities were location dependent. A time when the US was dubbed the land of opportunity, and many were flocking there in search of a better economic situation, one that gave them more opportunities to prosper.
如果你生活在互联网出现之前，你可能还记得机会依赖于地理位置的时代。那个时候，美国被称为机遇之地，许多人涌向那里，寻找更好的经济环境，一个给他们更多机会繁荣的环境。

Access to opportunities, historically 从历史上看，获得机遇的途径

Up until the 20th century & the introduction of the steam engine, it used to take from 6 up to 14 weeks to cross the Atlantic. By 1907, this was slashed down to 4.5 days, and yet further slashed by the introduction of commercial trans-atlantic flights.
直到20世纪蒸汽机问世之前，横渡大西洋需要6到14周的时间。到了1907年，这个数字降到了4.5天，然而随着跨大西洋商业航班的引入，这个数字进一步下降。
Instead of days, crossing the Atlantic would now take you less than 10 hours, but the one-way ticket would set you back ~3k$ in today’s money. Since then, most improvement was in terms of prices, but the main issue remained…
现在，横渡大西洋只需要不到10个小时，而不是几天，但是单程票要花掉你今天3000美元。从那时起，大部分的改善是在价格方面，但主要问题仍然是… ..。

You know, the whole inconvenience of having to leave your family, or completely disrupt their lives to relocate and build new lives… 你知道，不得不离开你的家庭，或者完全打乱他们的生活来重新安置和建立新生活所带来的整个不便…

It seems like we had remote work for a long time now, but it wasn’t really a thing just a decade or two ago. While some companies probably were allowing some of their workers to work remotely some days, it was far from the norm. Sites like LinkedIn, Twitter or UpWork were just getting started during the first Internet boom.
看起来我们已经远程工作了很长一段时间了，但是在一二十年前这还不是一件真正的事情。尽管一些公司可能允许他们的一些员工在某些日子里远程工作，但这远远不符合规范。像LinkedIn，Twitter或UpWork这样的网站在第一次互联网热潮中才刚刚起步。
During the first internet boom, you still pretty much had to relocate to the US to be able to:
在第一次互联网热潮期间，你几乎不得不搬到美国，才能:

• Work for most companies building on the internet 为大多数建立在互联网上的公司工作
• Invest in companies building on the internet 投资互联网上的公司

  So, here’s our thesis: 所以，这就是我们的论点：

  The most important thing that the (trust minimizing technology known as the) blockchain (and applications built on top of it) will decentralize, is the access to opportunities. 最重要的事情是(信任最小化技术被称为)区块链(和建立在它之上应用程序)将是去中心化的，是机遇的接触。

This is bigger than the opportunity to work for someone or run a _one-person-shop;_Web2 platforms already gave us that. This is the opportunity to invest.
这比为别人工作或经营一个人的店铺的机会更重要; Web2平台已经给了我们这样的机会。这是一个投资的机会。

• To invest your time in a project, and earn a stake. 把你的时间投入到一个项目中，并获得股份
• To invest your money in its token, traded globally. 把你的钱投资在它的代币上，在全球交易

Ethereum gave us a taste of what was possible:
以太坊让我们尝到了什么是可能的:

• If you worked on Ethereum, you earned Ether. 如果你为以太坊工作，你就赢得了以太币
• In the Ethereum crowdsale, it didn’t matter where you’re from. What mattered is that you had the means and the desire to contribute. 在以太坊众筹中，你来自哪里并不重要。重要的是你有能力和愿望去做出贡献

  Why now? 为什么是现在？

  There are multiple reasons this wasn’t really being done before.
  以前没有这样做有很多原因。
  Prior to the blockchain, tokenizing a project required tremendous amounts of trust in the project administrator (and their residence country) as it would leave them in full control over all tokens and their minting. Want to use it for voting? Build a system you need to trust. You want your token to be tradeable? Build your own exchange. A lot of work; more importantly, still requires infinite amounts of trust.
  在区块链之前，对一个项目进行标记，需要对项目管理员(以及他们的居住国)的巨大信任，因为这将使他们完全控制所有令牌和它们的分发。想用它来投票吗？需建立一个你需要信任的系统。你想让你的代币可以交易吗？需建立你自己的交易所。很多工作量; 更重要的是，仍然需要无限的信任。
  These things are increasingly possible now. Thanks to the DAO frameworks like Aragon, DAOstack or Moloch, you already can manage funds & vote on the direction of fully digital organizations without needing to trust people. Currently they aren’t good for much more than that, but will soon have a full suite of tools allowing anyone anywhere to easily start & manage organizations with strangers over the internet. How cool is that?
  这些事情现在正变得越来越可能。多亏了像Aragon、 DAOstack或者 Moloch这样的 DAO 框架，你已经可以管理资金，并投票决定完全数字化组织的发展方向，而不需要信任他人。目前他们还不能做更多的事情，但是很快就会有一套完整的工具，任何地方的任何人都可以通过互联网轻松地启动和管理与陌生人的组织。多酷啊？

  Conclusion 总结

  Web3 is the Web of Opportunity. The web of breaking down barriers & allowing people to decentrally coordinate around creation of socioeconomically useful things at a scale we haven’t seen before. A Web in which users aren’t just exploited for their attention, but recognized and rewarded as co-owners of the platforms they use & contribute to.
  Web3是机遇之网。打破障碍的网络，允许人们以前所未有的规模，去分散协调创造社会经济上有用的东西。在这个网站中，用户不仅仅是因为他们的注意力而受到利用，而且被认为是他们所使用和贡献的平台的共同拥有者。
  At MetaFam, we’re working hard to make this future a reality as soon as possible. We don’t care where you’re from or what school you went to. What matters is that you’re aligned with our purpose and willing to help. For that, you’ll be able to become one of the founders & earn yourself a piece of the pie.
  在MetaFam，我们正在努力使这个未来尽快成为现实。我们不在乎你来自哪里，或者你上过哪所学校。重要的是你和我们的目标是一致的，并且愿意帮助我们。为此，你将能够成为创始人之一，并从中分得一杯羹。