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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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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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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Concur that your presentation needs to be more explicit and simpler in order to get the ideas out to most readers. And that they are good ideas!
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thanks yeah. It is especially hard in the tweets. The first article especially I just said “oh whatever” and published it because I wanted to avoid getting demotivated rewriting it. Each article takes me deeper into the topic and expands the intuition, so we’ll see
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Concur that publishing like you did and iterating is better than waiting.

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I think that you can almost never be clear enough in your thesis. That said, don’t be afraid of evergreen content (which is what a lot of this sort of history becomes) that people will keep circling back to. We need that too!
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Thought about building this. How do u stop nodes from being busted by the FBI for hosting illegal content?
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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