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Seeking alternative compression. Hopefully wrong on average. Shameless. Started @getcognito and @bloom

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    1. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 19

      🐎 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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    2. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 19

      🔐 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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    3. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 19

      🧠 Young people sniffing around cryptocurrencies end up learning cryptography and distributed systems terms: “zero knowledge proofs”, “the byzantine generals problem”, etc I wouldn’t be surprised if this motivates more students to study these areas in college

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    4. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 19

      💰 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).

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      John Backus‏ @backus Jun 19

      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 academia

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        2. Jason Tashea‏ @jtashea Jun 20
          Replying to @backus

          Can you map out how blockchain is going to incentivize the tech industry to NOT build monopolies?

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        3. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 20
          Replying to @jtashea

          Any company doing an ICO is committing to building a decentralized product. Even SEC named decentralization as core criteria. Look at Limewire, Kazaa, and eDonkey back in file sharing days; very hard to control who builds on top of your protocol if your backend isn’t centralized.

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        4. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 20
          Replying to @backus @jtashea

          I used Twitter as an ex b/c they originally let 3rd party devs build frontends (Tweetdeck, Tweetbot) but now they’re freezing em out (no “like” API, polls don’t work) so they can serve ads. Can’t build your own twitter b/c network effects. But if backend wasn’t centralized…

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        1. Decentralization is the New Antitrust‏ @analyticascent Jun 21
          Replying to @backus @naval

          I'm convinced blockchain tech could fail (unlikely) but still have enough positive externalities left over for "crypto" in the *original* sense of the term, as well as decentralization in general.

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        1. maiclein‏ @maiclein Jun 19
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          If dog rabbit.

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        1. Iris.ai‏ @TheIrisAI Jun 20
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          That's an exhaustive list, thanks! @ProjectAiur combines AI and blockchain in order to democratize science and academic publishing process. Would love to hear your thoughts about it or AI and blockchain-backed technology frameworks in general?

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