Tokens are always presented alongside speculative decentralized tech. How can we understand tokens if we don't get the product?
Let's talk about tokenizing a protocol you know: BitTorrent
Getting tokenization right could create an efficient market for content.
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Yeah, this was pre-private trackers. Thinking was that persistent reputation/tokens and active discrimination against users with old clients could have forced a takeover.
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In my fat protocol post, I mention how gameable prisoner's dilemmas in protocols can be a business for someone else to exploit, switching users. See K++ and GreedyTorrent Introducing more perks in a superset protocol like you propose seems similar, so I'd expect a similar result
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Sorry for semi-hijacking the conversation, but I figured most readers seeing this subthread might also want to look at these two sub-threads of the conversation, which got buried thanks to Twitter's terrible UX: 1., by
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