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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

      Connecting decentralization + obfuscation process of file sharing to digital currency. Rough draft: • Beenz/Flooz → FTP and IRC • DigiCash → MojoNation (visionary, too early) • e-gold → Napster • Bitcoin → Limewire/Kazaa/eDonkey • Zcash → BitTorrent Thoughts?

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    2.  🤖 Sonya Mann  🎀‏Verified account @sonyaellenmann Jul 1
      Replying to @backus

      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

      1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
    3. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 1
      Replying to @sonyaellenmann

      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

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    4.  🤖 Sonya Mann  🎀‏Verified account @sonyaellenmann Jul 1
      Replying to @backus

      Oooh I hadn't heard of Tribler!

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    5. Justin Poirier‏ @tokenizedcap Jul 2
      Replying to @sonyaellenmann @backus

      LBRY may interest as wellhttps://lbry.io/faq/different-ipfs …

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    6.  🤖 Sonya Mann  🎀‏Verified account @sonyaellenmann Jul 2
      Replying to @tokenizedcap @backus

      It's both awesome and overwhelming how many decentralization projects there are!

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      John Backus‏ @backus Jul 2
      Replying to @sonyaellenmann @tokenizedcap

      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

      10:51 AM - 2 Jul 2018
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        2.  🤖 Sonya Mann  🎀‏Verified account @sonyaellenmann Jul 2
          Replying to @backus @tokenizedcap

          Hehe sorry for adding to your noise!

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        3. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 2
          Replying to @sonyaellenmann @tokenizedcap

          Oh lol no I don't mean your tweet. Sorry, that was unclear.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        4.  🤖 Sonya Mann  🎀‏Verified account @sonyaellenmann Jul 2
          Replying to @backus @tokenizedcap

          No worries I wasn't offended anyway!

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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