A few thoughts: • If law hadn’t destroyed Limewire/Kazaa phase, BitTorrent may not have dominated • Beenz/Flooz don’t totally fit IMO because they’re companies and AFAIK they just died because of dotcom bust. idk still seem noteworthy
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Ah another one: BitTorrent won not JUST because of tech. Key decisions: • Leave search to The Pirate Bay. Lawsuit magnet • No search in client • Company is squeaky clean. Doesn’t market saying “free copyrighted music!” and focuses on official use cases (distributing Linux)
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Zcash is more like Freenet
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Do you mean that in a positive or negative way?
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I was just drawing the comparison between encryption and zero knowledge proofs. Nobody knows who anyone else is in both systems.
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Ah gotcha. Yeah, for these comparisons I was thinking about how the market evolved in the past which didn’t favor Freenet’s extreme choices. Minimum viable decentralizationhttps://medium.com/@jbackus/minimum-viable-decentralization-d813dcf653fc …
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Good article.
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Thanks
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Only semi-related, but here's a list of current projects you might enjoy looking into: GnuSocial + Mastodon + Pleroma + PeerTube, Dat + Beaker Browser, IPFS, Scuttlebutt, umm that's all I remember off the top of my head a lot of those broadly count as file-sharing
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Thanks! I’m on
@vgr’s Mastodon (http://refactorcamp.org ) and have used IPFS. I’ve read up on a few others. Next thing I want to dive deep on is Tribler since they’ve been screwing around with both sides of this since before the crypto craze I believe -
Oooh I hadn't heard of Tribler!
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It's both awesome and overwhelming how many decentralization projects there are!
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Yeah. Every time I share something crypto related, I get like 10 people saying "surely you've heard of <new vaguely related project>?" idk how people keep up with it all and weed out noise
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Hehe sorry for adding to your noise!
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Oh lol no I don't mean your tweet. Sorry, that was unclear.
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If the significance of BitTorrent is that there's no one entity to go after then Bitcoin/Monero is BitTorrent. Zcash is controlled by one firm based in the US.
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Sorta. See followup tweets. More about clean org but that may not extend to currency where the final boss is the government not the RIAA
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Are we past that stage though? If the USG was going to attack Bitcoin surely it would have been in 2H18 where it looked like hyperbitcoinization was happening live.
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No we’re definitely not. IMO, the smart move for USG may be to give up now so they don’t motivate further obfuscation and then have to deal with totally anonymous currency being the leader
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