The blockchain ecosystem is also investing insane amounts of cash into finding viable UI for interacting w/ private keys.
This may help privacy advocates find ways to make the equivalent of GPG emails (and much more) easier to use and accessible in key apps like the browser
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Young people sniffing around cryptocurrencies end up learning cryptography and distributed systems terms: “zero knowledge proofs”, “the byzantine generals problem”, etc
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Even if you’re skeptical of all the crypto companies county ICOs, bottom line is they’re going to try to launch crypto-based distributed systems. p2p file sharing provided lots of production networks for academia to study (Kademlia, Gnutella, FastTrack, BitTorrent).Show this thread -
Silver linings for crypto-haters: At least blockchain might…
Incentivize tech industry to not build monopolies
Fund UI experiments for privacy tools
Expose students to cryptography, distributed systems
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Disintermediation of any middleware or middle-entities that cause friction of the transaction.
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Anti-trust may be a thing of the past in 20 years... let's keep an eye on digital assets role.
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