Thread by @0xMert_

this is arguably the best application of crypto I've seen yet — everyone needs to talk about it more

traditional mapping is a monopoly, expensive, and inefficient

how it works is that Google has cars that drive around and gather data periodically and charge super high fees since this data is very hard to get

with crypto, you can give people all around the world the ability to earn by adding dashcams to their cars and map the world in real-time

the result is that you get:

i) much fresher mapping data (Google Maps might take months to re-map something!!)

ii) much better economics

iii) much better composability and network effects

the end result is a much better real-time world map than any centralized institution can provide

the team behind it is @Hivemapper and they're building on Solana

this is so sick — crypto enabling better real world systems

and of course

we had on @aseidman, one of the most based founders I've ever seen, on Lightspeed

one of our most popular episodes:

@aseidman can also see a case study here:

this thing fires me up everytimesolana.com/news/case-stud…