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'''Blockstack''' is an [[open-source]] [[decentralized computing]] platform.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gilder |first=George |date=2018 |title="Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy" |url=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/life-after-google-george-gilder/1126605456#/ |publisher= |page=159-177159–177 }}</ref> Blockstack software libraries enable developers to build decentralized applications, which have no single point of failure or control.<ref>{{Citation

| last1 = Barabas | first1 = C.

| last2 = Narula | first2 = N.

| last3 = Zuckerman | first3 = E.

| title = "Defending Internet Freedom through Decentralization: Back to the Future?"

| url= https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/defending-internet-freedom-through-decentralization.pdf

| series = MIT Media Lab Report

| place = Cambridge, MA

| pages = 51-5951–59

| year = August 2017 }}</ref><ref>

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| title = Blockchain Technology the Identity Management and Authentication Service Disruptor: A Survey

| url = http://dx.doi.org/10.18517/ijaseit.8.4-2.6838

| journal = International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology

| volume = 8

| number = 4-24–2

| pages = 1735-17451735–1745

| date = 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite| journaldoi = 10.18517/ijaseit.8.4-2.6838

| last1 = Lim

| first1 = Shu Yun

| last2 = Tankam Fotsing

| first2 = Pascal

| last3 = Almasri

| first3 = Abdullah

| last4 = Musa

| first4 = Omar

| last5 = Mat Kiah

| first5 = Miss Laiha

| last6 = Ang

| first6 = Tan Fong

| last7 = Ismail

| first7 = Reza

}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal

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| last2 = Grüner |first2 = A.

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| last4 = Meinel | first4 = C.

| title = A Survey on Essential Components of a Self-Sovereign Identity

| url = https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.06346.pdf

| journal = Computer Science Review

| volume = 30

| pages = 80–86

| date = November 2018}}</ref>| arxiv = 1807.06346

| doi = 10.1016/j.cosrev.2018.10.002

| bibcode = 2018arXiv180706346M

}}</ref>

Concerns around internet privacy, security, and data breaches are bringing attention to decentralized platforms like Blockstack.<ref>

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| last = Singh

| first = Harminder

| title = ‘New'New internet’internet' looks to keep user data away from tech giants and bypass China censorship

| newspaper = [[South China Morning Post]]

| date = 1 October 2017