Heyo, HackerNoon contributors! We wish yáll a ! With the December announcement, HackerNoon and Everscale bring you a surprise gift. We are extending the Decentralized Internet Writing Contest for three months! v. happy new year THE GAME IS STILL ON! 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 Or give this to qualify for the contest, just like that! interview on decentralized internet So, are you one of the winners of for December? 👀 Let's find out. #Decentralized-Internet writing contest Our top 15 nominations for the month of December Before going through the list, let's understand the process first. We picked all the stories on HackerNoon, published in December 2021. Then we chose the top 15 stories using weightage respectively to: tagged with #Decentralized-Internet 60:30:10 Number of hours read Number of people reached The freshness of the content Here is the list of our top 15 contenders: by 3 Best Metaverse Games to Follow in 2022 @falconite by Web 3.0 For Businesses: A Beginner's Guide @emmanuelawosika by The Top 7 Metaverses That You Can Try Right Now @sergey-baloyan by Understanding DAO: A Basic Explanation @sergey-baloyan by Taking Away The Metaverse from Mark Zuckerberg: Billionaire Brothers Strike Back @extrachain by An Algorithmic Decentralized Central Bank: Eliminating Irrational Token Allocation with SORA @soratopia by Top 7 Investment Firms Leading NFT Venture Rounds @sergey-baloyan by 4 DeFi Protocols that Will Build the Future of Finance @rowenlan by Cefion Anonymous Messenger App Review: Confidentiality, Simplicity, and Blockchain @nonamec3po by Facebook vs. Decentralized Projects: Who Will Win the 'Metaverse War'? @cryptus by The Internet is Broken, But The Metaverse and Web 3.0 Could be the Solution @futuristiclawyer by The Collector's Guide to Avoid Insidious NFT Scams @husseinhallak by In the 90s, Web 1.0 was Running on a Fully Decentralized Infrastructure @randhindi by Whistleblower Blows Lid on the Decentralized Internet: An Interview with Mr. X @metamark by 2021 - One Year in EOS @alfredodecandia Transparency, Democracy! To ensure that our algorithm isn't misused in any way, we have kept the human factor involved. So every time, our editors vote for their favorite stories from the nomination list to finalize the winners! So, here are the winners 🎉 In the first place, we have by In the 90s, Web 1.0 was Running on a Fully Decentralized Infrastructure @randhindi "I believe we are just getting started with Web 3 and Ethereum, and we haven't even seen the full capacity of what it is capable of enabling, just like we hadn't seen anything yet in 1993 with Web 1.0 or in 2005 with Web 2.0. And the best way to choose which project to invest in is to ask yourself: does it compose?" by has won the second position! Whistleblower Blows Lid on the Decentralized Internet: An Interview with Mr. X @metamark This month we shared an interview prompt with our community to share their thoughts on the decentralized web. We got a few quality stories, and one of these has won the second prize! Freedom. Which sounds trivial, as if I am using the technology of the future as a means to collective liberty. The global population are, for better or worse, heading towards a 22nd century lived almost exclusively in the Metaverse, a digital landscape where art, entertainment, culture, and social connections are created, sustained, and ended in binary. If that future is decentralised then it can be free, or at least contain more sustainable liberty. The choice is inherent. You can also enter the decentralized internet writing contest . through this writing prompt In the third place, we have by The Internet is Broken, But The Metaverse and Web 3.0 Could be the Solution @futuristiclawyer ''Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of The Metaverse could provide a foresight of where things are heading on the internet’s current path. The idea of “the metaverse” is not something that frightens me in itself. Rather, I think we should be acutely wary of the companies that design it. The addictive quality of social platforms, coupled with the privacy-intrusive ways major technology companies extract user data, should be a major concern for everyone.'' Congratulations to all of the winners! We will contact you for the payments shortly. Know more about . HackerNoon writing contests here