Blockchain lessons from p2p:
Token economies would improve file sharing protocols by fixing resource allocation. Many tried!
Rethink product/market fit: protocol/market and app/consumer
3rd party apps parallelize search for app/consumer fithttps://medium.com/@jbackus/fat-protocols-arent-new-42d2c538db41 …
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Replying to @backus
This was a fantastic writeup, what motivated you to dig so deeply into this history?
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Replying to @bedehomender
Thank you! I originally had the thought that BitTorrent's design (3rd party trackers, dumb client w/o search) was an artifact of the legal system. So I read up on history for that. Noticed tons of parallels to blockchain (way more than I touch on in this post) and got obsessed.
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