ICPSquad Weekly: Happy New Year Internet Computer!

The Internet Computer community ended 2022 with a crescendo of encouraging developments. With prominent crypto influencers supporting ICP and opportunities for new developers right around the corner, the future looks bright!

The past year has been absolutely wild — and that may be an understatement. Only two months ago, the Internet Computer community contended with all-time emotional and economic lows. Now, we're riding high on a wave of positive news that includes Bitcoin integration, unprecedented ecosystem growth, and BitBoy Crypto deciding to champion the cause of ICP as the 2nd Internet Revolution.

Speaking of which...

BitBoy Releases ICP Overview

Ben Armstrong, better known as BitBoy, released an excellent overview of ICP on December 20, 2022 that doubles as a recap of the dizzying events of the past year. As a reminder, BitBoy discovered the Internet Computer not only because of his investigations into FTX, but also because of everyday Internet Computer users telling him about the DFINITY Foundation's exciting new technology.

In his video, BitBoy covers a lot of ground. Here are the highlights:

• Dominic Williams developed the idea for the Internet Computer (ICP) in 2015. ICP is not simply another crypto. Instead, it seeks to reinvent the Internet. The not-for-profit DFINITY Foundation aims to implement Williams's idea to create world computer that cannot be shutdown or controlled by BigTech.
• ICP has always been well backed, including by Andreesen Horowitz and Polychain. The perception that ICP was a scam was allegedly crafted by FTX and Alameda Research through illegal price fixing and misinformation campaigns, with the New York Times possibly playing the role of a patsy.
• ICP is not a scam; in fact, its tech is solid, and it's the only blockchain that can process transactions at Web speed and affordably replicate existing Web2 services at scale. There are already hundreds of decentralized applications running fully on-chain, with no need for proprietary API or cloud services.

But please don't stop at the highlights. The video is definitely worth the watch!

Motoko Bootcamp Coming Up

Make no mistake — just like BitBoy said in his recent video, the Internet Computer is coming. Here's your chance to be a part of it: don't miss 2023's Motoko Bootcamp! You'll learn how to create, and deploy, decentralized applications on the Internet Computer's revolutionary blockchain technology. Several Dfinity Community contributors were instrumental in organizing last year's events, and the prizes included fun NFTs and grab bags of interesting tokens.

For folks who may be new to the community, the Motoko programming language is a new, modern, and type safe language that equips developers to build the next generation of Internet Computer software. While Internet Computer canisters can be programmed with other languages like Rust that compile to WebAssembly, Motoko is designed to support the unique features of the Internet Computer and to provide a familiar yet robust programming environment. The Motoko compiler, documentation and other tooling is open source and released under the Apache 2.0 license. Contributions are, of course, always welcome!

Conclusion

The Internet Computer community ended 2022 with a crescendo of encouraging developments. With prominent crypto influencers supporting ICP and opportunities for new developers right around the corner, the future looks bright!

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