#504: Tom Trowbridge, Co-founder of Fluence Labs, on DePIN, DeAI, and Decentralized Storage/Compute

Tom Trowbridge is an entrepreneur and business builder; he is a co-founder of Fluence Labs, and Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR) where he was President from Inception. He hosts the DePIN Day conference series and the DePINed podcast and is an investor in leading DePIN projects and crypto funds. Tom is an advocate for decentralized systems and distributed ledger/blockchain technology and believes these open source tools provide the best opportunity to build fairer, more transparent, and higher-functioning societies, government, and business ecosystems. He is passionate about driving education regarding blockchain, Bitcoin and the great promise of distributed systems. 

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The early days of HBAR 
- Decentralized storage/compute 
- Difference between decentralized compute vs centralized cloud 
- DePIN 
- DeAI 
- Crypto economic models 
- Fiat-linked rewards address crypto reward volatility 
- Staking models for cloud DePINs 
- DePIN offers a new, sustainable model for value creation 

Fluence Labs
X: @fluence_project
Website: www.fluence.network
Telegram: t.me/fluence_project

Tom Trowbridge
X: @TheTomTrow
LinkedIn: Tom Trowbridge

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