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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Please tell me you're compiling this somewhere
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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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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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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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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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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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