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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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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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.
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I glad! It seems like a lot of stuff in the blockchain space is assumed to be unprecedented and hypothetical. There are historical lessons that everyone would be better off keeping in mind.
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As a very obvious example, you wrote a post mortem for MojoNation detailing what worked and what didn’t. There are dozens of people solving problems overlapping with MojoNation today. I’d be surprised if half have read it. Blows me away http://www.cs.kent.edu/~javed/class-FP2P10S/papers-2006/mojonation.pdf …
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