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Why exactly is a Blockchain needed for that?

Duh... To enable the DeepSearch AI and containerization of each user account.

1) It's an experiment. Perhaps it will be abandoned.

2) Curation/Upvotes via transaction needs to be on chain.

2) Why do you need the overhead of a blockchain to increment a counter?

It's not a counter, people pay bitcoin to upvote.