This crypto-fueled decentralized protocol craze is an antitrust trojan horse. Do people calling to break up Big Tech realize Silicon Valley might accidentally trust-bust itself?
Ex: Twitter couldn’t freeze out 3rd party apps like it has if backend was decentralized
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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
Provide crypto + distributed systems case studies for academiaShow this thread
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