Fear of file sharing tech in 2000 even sounds like crypto today. "If they think Napster is bad ... there is a lot worse coming. Software that is untraceable" "The soon to come Freenet will offer completely anonymous and untraceable file trading"pic.twitter.com/340Ru6YmPb
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Uncanny parallels between p2p file sharing era and current crypto evolution
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Yup! If others haven't seen it yet, I've been obsessing over these parallels for the last month or two:https://medium.com/@jbackus/fat-protocols-arent-new-42d2c538db41 …
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@backus that’s a great read. Thanks for sharing1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
Thanks for reading it! I’m writing more on p2p + blockchain parallels. Should have another post out in the next week
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