How were Buddhist scriptures passed down without written language in ancient times? This weekend, I was copying the Heart Sutra at the Jade Buddha Temple. It was so popular that I waited in line for half an hour. I chose to use a brush, a total of 260 words. Oh my god, I copied for a full 45 minutes As I copied, I thought to myself, there were no written texts before. How was this Buddhist scripture preserved over thousands of years? After returning, I immediately searched for learning and the results were shocking 🤯 Let's sneak in! ⬇️ In the 6th century BC, Shakyamuni attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree and imparted a wealth of knowledge and compassion. 2500 years ago, India had no paper or pen, and the teachings of Buddha were actually memorized by a group of monks, mouth to mouth and ear to ear, for hundreds of years. Sangha held a meeting to recite Sangiti, aligning each sentence of Buddhist scriptures, dividing tasks, grouping, setting recitation frequency, cross checking, and implementing strict new member admission procedures. The monastic community is the core organization of Buddhism, with no single point of control. Each monastic community operates independently and maintains consistency through precepts and shared recitation. Monks form an efficient inheritance network through gatherings and division of labor. Even if some monks make mistakes or pass away, other members can fill the vacancies to ensure that the teachings are not lost. By this point, smart you have already noticed. Let me go, this is the most primitive blockchain node prototype room! The only difference is that machines run nodes on blockchain, while monks run on humans. Now, @ ICN_Protocol has created a narrative called "WebFi", which says it's a decentralized cloud that "uses people as nodes and social interaction as the accelerator". Doesn't it sound a bit like the way monks use it? From Buddhist scriptures to blockchain, the techniques of human collaboration have not changed much, but ICN wants to use this trick to overthrow giants such as AWS and Google Cloud. Langzi? Hey, pull the sheep? Fast forward to 2025, and the Internet is a bit boring. Your NFTs, AI models, and game data are all in the hands of AWS and Google Cloud, with downtime, privacy, censorship, licensing, and exclusive interests... It's not easy to be choked by big shots. Do you remember the CloneX incident? Last month, Cloudflare made a comeback with 19800 NFT images and 404, causing the community to explode. Centralized clouds are like time bombs. One sentence summary of ICN: ICN=Web3+AWS However, ICN's ambition does not stop there. To be exact, it is to build the infrastructure of the next generation Internet. I don't care how many web pages you have, the future direction is to need a permissionless, composable cloud platform that integrates storage, computing, and networking, with scalability. At present, the ICN team has rich and market validated experience, products, and services, bringing the core concepts and technologies of Web3 back to Web2. This time, I believe it. Has real income, with an annual income of 5 million US dollars and a growth of 2000% We have real customers, over 1000 corporate clients, and reserve orders exceeding 250PB There is a large amount of financing, with a total financing amount exceeding 31 million US dollars There is a real community with over 250000 community members and 220000+test network users There are mature products, application layer ICNP、 Clear hardware layer architecture Using the analogy of Buddhist scripture inheritance, there are several crucial roles within the entire ICN system, including: Hardware providers (HPs), "scripture holding monks", store data and run calculations Service providers (SPs), "preaching monks", engage in storage and AI services HyperNode Runner, "Proofreading Monk", uses nodes to check service quality ICNT token, "merit points", rewards for work, community fun Compared to technical details, I am truly fascinated by ICN's idea of 'letting people be nodes'. Looking back thousands of years, humans have always been the mainstay of society. Unfortunately, after the Industrial Revolution, humans were gradually mechanized, formatted, and even threatened to be replaced every day in the AI era. However, from the perspective of technological philosophy, humans should be the center of everything, not machines. ICN applied this philosophy to distributed storage, making people become the protagonists again to build the basic model of the next generation Internet. What it is building is an open cloud operated by thousands of nodes and driven by communities. It restores the essence of the Internet by means of anti censorship, composability and de licensing. From the collective chanting of monks 2500 years ago to WebFi in 2025, the creativity of human collaboration has never been disconnected. ICN has replicated the decentralized magic of Buddhist scriptures using ICNP, HyperNode, and community. WebFi is defined as a network driven by human nodes and social interaction, which is very angular and completely different from traditional DePIN narratives, emphasizing the core role of human emotions, trust, and interaction in building decentralized networks. This is a bit advanced, I admire the brain that has opened up this hole, it's the brain I like. This is a soft core science popularization article, through which you can have a partial understanding of the following knowledge: The drawbacks of centralized cloud services ICN's innovative solutions and philosophical thinking Where can I copy Buddhist scriptures Author: Anymose | A Soft Core Science Popularization Writer <End of Full Text>