Heyo Hackers! Here we are again with the winners for the month of April! #Decentralized-Internet writing contest HackerNoon is excited to host a Decentralized Internet Writing Contest in collaboration with ! Here’s your chance to win money from a whopping monthly prize pool. You can write about anything related to decentralized internet - it could be the exciting new updates you know about or your opinion piece on them. QuickNode 5,000 USDT Here's how you can participate: on HackerNoon Set up an account the Check out Decentralized Internet Writing Competition's rules and submit it with as one of the tags Pen your story #Decentralized-Internet How do we shortlist the best stories? First, we picked all the stories on HackerNoon, published in April. Then we picked the top 10 stories, using 60:30:10 weightage respectively, to: tagged with #Decentralized-Internet Number of hours read The number of people reached The freshness of the content Here is the list of our top 10 contenders: by Cryptographic Hash Functions in Blockchain (with Bash & Python Code) @balapriya by Million Dollar Pixels: Diving into NFT Decentralization, Copyright, and Minting @andyleroy by Can Blockchain Technology Help with Our Growing Privacy Problems? @gabrielmanga by How to Explain the NFT Boom @futuristiclawyer by 7th US President Andrew Jackson's Thoughts on Cryptocurrency @michael-brooks by Reviewing the Terra White Paper in 2022 @parameters by Why PoW NFTs are the Next Blue-Chip NFT Collections @kenyou by What is Web 3.0 and How It Can Transform the Internet @juxtathinka [A Complete Look at Drops, NFT-Backed Loans and NFT Staking](https://A Complete Look at Drops, NFT-Backed Loans and NFT Staking by @Cryptonite) by @Cryptonite by How Are DAOs Changing the Way We Live and Work? @Gautam Winners! As usual, we created a poll in HackerNoon's writing contest channel and asked the editors to vote. So here are the results: by won the first position! Cryptographic Hash Functions in Blockchain (with Bash & Python Code) @balapriya Yay @balapriya! You have won You have won 2,500 USDT!! Cryptographic Hash Functions are a class of hash functions that are cryptographically secure. From password authentication and integrity verification to blockchain—these functions are used in a multitude of applications. In the second place, we have by 7th US President Andrew Jackson's Thoughts on Cryptocurrency @michael-brooks Congratulations @michael-brooks! You’ve won 1,500 USDT! **Jackson:**So, I’ll accept the fact that society has advanced with all of this technology and that my principles have helped to start the whole cryptocurrency and digital asset trend. But I have to draw the line somewhere. I just don’t feel the same way about transportation. I don’t like the way cars and planes have taken the place of my beloved horse. But who am I to criticize progress? It’s time I joined him and headed back to the past. I’ve seen a lot and even dealt with bank wars, so I want to share some closing thoughts with you. I’ve heard you like a good fight. Smith: Yeah, I’ve even been in duels, but that’s beside the point. And I’ve won several battles in the War of 1812. I think you’re headed in the right direction with crypto but be prepared for the battles. And get ready to Jackson: by has won the third position! How to Explain the NFT Boom @futuristiclawyer @futuristiclawer has won 500 USDT! The mirrorworld doesn’t yet fully exist, but it is coming. Someday soon, every place and thing in the real world — every street, lamppost, building, and room — will have its full-size digital twin in the mirrorworld. For now, only tiny patches of the mirrorworld are visible through AR headsets. Piece by piece, these virtual fragments are being stitched together to form a shared, persistent place that will parallel the real world. Congratulations to all the winners! See y’all next time.