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

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    1. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 1

      Exploring the history of decentralized tech feels like stalking @zooko: 💵 1996: he is working on DigiCash (BTC predecessor) 🌊 2000: building MojoNatio w/ @bramcohen (Predecessor to BitTorrent, IPFS, and tokenized protocols) 🗄️ 2006: Tahoe-LAFS (decentralized cloud storage)

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    2. zooko‏ @zooko Jul 1
      Replying to @backus @bramcohen

      Oh God ur gonna make me blush 😳

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    3. zooko‏ @zooko Jul 1
      Replying to @zooko @backus @bramcohen

      I was merely a contributor to most of that. Plus, the only reason any of that is important is that it later gave rise to Bittorrent and Bitcoin. (Plus Tahoe-LAFS is actually cool and is still alive and growing.)

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    4. zooko‏ @zooko Jul 1
      Replying to @zooko @backus @bramcohen

      But I have to admit I love that you're actually studying the history. Gives me hope because I used to think that history was basically forgotten.

      2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
    5. mach nine‏ @alegw Jul 1
      Replying to @zooko @backus @bramcohen

      Please tell me you're compiling this somewhere @backus? I wanna free-ride.

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    6. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 1
      Replying to @alegw @zooko @bramcohen

      Twitter and Medium right now. I have a few GB of news articles, videos, screenshots, and academic papers but not sure how helpful those would be. Like 20 pages of disorganized Evernote thoughts. I’ve been sitting on a half dozen articles on different lessons.

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    7. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 1
      Replying to @backus @alegw and

      I’m still figuring out the format for a lot of this stuff which is why I’m throwing a lot at Twitter and seeing what sticks. I can’t tell if people realize I’m implying a big parallel to blockchain for almost everything I share about p2p file sharing.

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      John Backus‏ @backus Jul 1
      Replying to @backus @alegw and

      I’m also going to try rehashing this post again and focus on only takeaways. Main feedback I got from others is I included too much history and made the reader work too hard.https://medium.com/@jbackus/fat-protocols-arent-new-42d2c538db41 …

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        2. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 1
          Replying to @backus @alegw and

          I may even try this article again and be more explicit about the intent (provide a clear use case for token economies with a protocol people know) since I feel like it was misunderstood.https://medium.com/@jbackus/what-if-bittorrent-had-a-token-13d62a590aa7 …

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        3. Uncle Diaz ⚡️‏ @UncleDiaz Jul 1
          Replying to @backus @alegw and

          Have you ever lived in a country that uses two currencies? I have, and it's annoying af. Yet all you 'tokenize the world' people think everyone wants to try to keep track of the value of dozens of tokens. Why do I want to get paid in a token when I can just get paid in btc?

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        4. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 1
          Replying to @UncleDiaz @alegw and

          Heh this is part of the misunderstanding I was talking about. The token is invisible in this concept and you wouldn’t know about it unless you want to. There are interesting reasons to do token vs BTC, but it’s not the point of the article.

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