This Tiny Gadget is a VPN for Life...

quick disclaimer today we're going to be talking about a product that has implications when it

comes to your internet connection your own personal privacy uh your security on the internet

and then there's even a crypto element to it as well so if you're uncomfortable with any of those

uh concepts or topics you can go ahead and take off if you're curious about it you can watch the

video and then do some of your own research in order to be responsible. It's a different type

of content for the channel. And the reason I was willing to do it is because the CMO of the company

actually traveled here in order in order to answer some of my questions in relationship to this

product. It's an emerging space. So you should totally be skeptical. And I just wanted to make

sure to put that warning at the front of this video so you feel fairly warned. Consider yourself

warned. So today we're talking about a product that is a little bit unusual for the channel

It's something I haven't seen before. It is a hardware VPN device capable of mining a little

bit of crypto. Look, I got the pitch for this product and I decided that in order to get the

whole story i was going to invite the cmo of the company to the studio in order to describe

the variety of features in this device this is an interesting product that you brought here today

so the pico itself is a hardware device that allows people to have cyber security um it also

has the dpn feature the decentralized vpn okay and it's a it's a peer-to-peer um vpn so no

longer are we dealing with centralized VPNs. It's more secure, it's more private, and you're

basically your own client and your own server. It's called the Deeper Connect Pico, and this is

a tiny little hardware VPN. So you're probably familiar with VPNs. They call their hardware VPN

a DPN because it's decentralized. There's a number of these devices and previous generation devices

out there in the wild, connected to networks across the globe. You can log in to some other connection in some other geography

for the same reasons you would typically use a VPN, but instead you're going to do that in a decentralized fashion

by connecting to another node, another piece of hardware. You're going to do it with this device here

Essentially what you're ending up with is a hardware-based VPN. Right now, as we're still growing, we have over 55,000 nodes around the world in over 150 countries

When you say nodes, does that mean these devices? That is one node in your hand. Cool

Yeah. When you are connected to a node and you find that, hey, maybe it's not as fast as you want

you can actually switch IPs or you can, there's different settings that you can adjust to

and connect to faster nodes. Does this compare to like a typical VPN service or would it

Would there be a performance hit? I would say it's faster. Oh, really

Yeah. It's faster in the sense that traditional VPN has, just like when we travel for work

they have high traffic periods where people are getting off work and they're at home

and it gets really congested. But through our network, because it is more peer-to-peer

that doesn't really happen as much because you're connecting to different nodes

not one centralized server. so as we continue to grow it's going to be better than centralized vpn and on top of that um

there is no subscription so you buy the device then you don have there no monthly subscription like you have with centralized VPNs So it you buy it and you can use it for life

I understand the benefit of connecting to some geography for the purpose of unlocking content that may be censored in a region that I'm in

But why would I keep this connected and allow somebody else to connect to me

And that's where the crazy crypto component comes in. If you share your connection, what you're essentially doing is using your bandwidth, supplying it to someone else, and then generating their very own token, which they're calling DPR

Individuals who have this hardware are essentially contributing their connection, their bandwidth, and then the question is, well, what do they get for it

And that's where this piece comes in. You're saying they're actually mining through allowing others to use their connection

That's right. It's an incentive for people to share their bandwidth. And as more and more people, we are projected, for instance, to hit one million nodes by the end of 2024

By that time, with so many nodes on the network, it's going to make it easier and easier for people to connect and to use and to share their bandwidth

And it will become a lot more useful, more robust, more secure

What do people do with this DPR that they get? whatever you want like cryptocurrency you know it's it's basically another cryptocurrency but

this one has a real use case i just get curious about within that ecosystem if there isn't a way

to apply it back what you've earned right for some sort of advantage within the network so in order

to use the team right now we're still growing so we're not charging any subscription uh there's

very little micropayments, which is the payments of DPR to use. But once we reach a certain amount

of nodes, in order to use the DPN, you have to have small payments of DPR. So if, for instance

Lou, if I'm using your node and you're sharing your bandwidth, you have a great bandwidth

you set it at a price that's one one hundredth of what VPNs cost. I connect to it. I have to pay

you some dpr and because you're sharing it with me you earn that dpr that's the marketplace right

so there's some system uh sustainability there decentralized advertising if i want to advertise

on the network instead of paying a third party like google or youtube or facebook i just basically

there's a platform that i'm able to upload my ads and from that i have to pay a little bit of dpr

and that DPR goes to as a reward for the people who are viewing and interacting with our ads

So that's another sharing economy that we're creating there. So you can use it to directly apply to the network

It's crazy. So everybody's essentially their own – everyone becomes their own mini VPN company

That's right. Exactly. Exactly. And that's what Web3 is about. You are owning your own service

Right. Yeah. Well, I have to go out of my way to do full disclosure here

I do not have any DPR myself, though. This is not one of those situations where I'm trying to just like get a boatload of people on board so that it personally benefits me

But like a lot of different crypto projects, there's all sorts of plans for how to create an ecosystem around this DPR

including ways in which you could unlock increased or improved bandwidth. There's an ad blocker built into this

a decentralized video platform, but you know how it gets into crypto space

It's very ambitious. It's gonna be able to do this and then that. I prefer to talk about it in terms of what it can do

right now and what it can do right now is behave like a VPN in a hardware form without a subscription service Buy it connect it use it and you not paying a monthly fee Now this tiny guy is the littlest one that they ever made It

has a number of connection points on it. So there's four total USB type C ports. You can connect it

directly to your device. You can connect it directly to your modem and have all of your

connections travel through it. One of the ports is used for this here, which is a tiny little

antenna, you can create your very own hotspot. So this thing kind of behaves like your router

And this is because there are security features in here. You may be on some sort of public

connection, like at a coffee shop, you can use this in order to utilize those security features

and then share that newly secure connection with whichever devices are around you

mobile device, laptop, friends connections, and things like this. Cybersecurity is huge. Having an enterprise level, enterprise class cybersecurity in your home network without having to pay thousands and thousands for it is a huge benefit

Because of the remote work situation now, more and more people are working from home and working on the road

Having cybersecurity to protect the data that they have, whether it's their work data or their own personal data, is becoming more and more important for everyone

It has a seven-layer firewall with deep packet inspection, which will further enhance and protect your IP compared to just the regular VPN, which does not do that

In VPN, you can only have one tunnel at a time. So if you have a big family and say you, Lu, want to watch something from, I don't know, China for some reason, and one of your family members is trying to lock into Europe, you're going to have to switch that VPN and break

You have to choose one. But our smart route allows for multiple tunnels to be connected at the same time so that you don't have to

And you can actually customize the VPN, the DPN, so that when you go to a particular domain, it will route to that country so that you don't ever have to deal with it

It just will know it. If you need even faster connectivity, you're probably going to step up to this one

There's no adapter necessary on this unit. You're still going to get power and an Ethernet cable

The Pico is their fourth generation, so they've been launching products for a little while

And there are circumstances where you might find yourself in a particular region that's combating playing cat and mouse with your typical high-profile premium VPN software

And that was actually his origin story with the company, how he got involved

He was exposed to some of these hardware alternatives and was actually able to continue to use his applications in those places that were cracking down at the time on some of those premium VPN services

DPN is the first killer app that we have developed on the blockchain for this device

And the reason that DPN was first developed is because in order to build our Web3, we are a Web3 project

It's all dependent on the inability to be censored. So by having the DPN, that sets the framework for that

What do you mean by censored? Give me an example of censored. So, for instance, you might live in a country that doesn't allow you to view certain websites, or you might live in a country where there's copyright censorship, where, you know, you're trying to view an MBA program or something like that, and you can't because of the country you live in

Okay. These are just some small ways that you're censored. Some are a little bit more serious where you don't have access to anything

I mean you can go to certain countries and you don have access to Facebook Google and all those things so by having the inability to be censored now we are able to build our Web3 platform

And one of the first platforms we'll be launching this year is our decentralized advertising

And we have, as one of the features on the devices, you can block ads

And you can replace these pop-up ads, banner ads, even YouTube ads with network ads

And these network ads can come from third party or it can come from users as well

And the reason it's decentralized is that it's Web3 is because people now can be, they can earn by watching these ads

So Web3 is about ownership and your time for watching and your attention

You can be paid in crypto tokens for your time. So when you're interacting with an ad, you're earning DPR

This is a thing that you envision being around for a long time

Yes. This is a thing that people don't have to be apprehensive about

Absolutely. You know, I think we're coming from the traditional side of things

With our CEO, Russell, he was a head of research at some of the top cybersecurity companies in the world in Silicon Valley

um fortinet pala alto networks to name a couple um he created this device first as a consumer

device that's cyber security uh without blockchain at first that that was his first development he

wanted a working product with people actually using it the blockchain came later as he learned

more about it and he saw the power of combining blockchain network security and a sharing

economy and those three combined it creates basically you know gunpowder for the internet

and it creates something magical and that's where we came from now where we're going now is we have

goals to be listed on asdaq in the long run and of course this will take time but we have our

sights on that so we're going to be around for a long time we want every household to have this

device so that they can access Web3 and open up the world of the Internet and have ownership

of all their data, all their time, all of their attention. And that's what Web3 is about

It's really about empowering the Internet user. So that's where we're heading

So there you have it. It is a new company, an emerging company in a very exciting space

I think it's interesting for people that want to dabble a little bit, want to experiment

a little bit and don't mind kind of being on that fringe and playing with some new hardware

It is cool to see hardware products emerge in this space where a lot of projects don't

even really get to that point. So I was happy to be able to invite the CMO of the company over to hear his insight and

have him sort of participate in the video. And I also know that he happens to be open just to dialogue with you guys directly if

you have more questions. he's on Twitter if you want to contact and find out more about it

there's the early Pico you can see down with the beer bottle

somebody actually made a can opener and they made that GIF and they sent it

so they're quite passionate I guess if people just want to follow the project

as well that you're a good person to follow yeah follow me, follow our own Twitter

which is Deeper Network oh look at that, this is a cool meme DPR, has Web3, has dual mining, has security, free DPN

I don't know if you guys know what it means