From "The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations" http://a.co/a5FX1HC
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This was only true in the early days of
@Skype - it became far more centralised, particularly after MSFT bought them. Most (all?) calls relay via their supernodes today, in particular to cater to legal (and other) intercepts. -
Yeah you’re right it changed. Still interesting as an early stage tactic if it gives you arbitrary scale at no cost. I mainly just wanted to point out that it can be for non-ideological / legal reasons
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This looks like traditional low-end pricing disruption? What's the connection to decentralization?
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Connecting users directly for calls means there is no expensive and costly centralized infrastructure. Skype is able to disrupt via price because they have no costs per call at all. Usually decentralization is an ideological or a legal thing, but Skype is an exception.
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Technically it's a bit more complicated : telephone companies used protocol that required setup and lease (!!!) of communication channel between callers. Having lease provided throughput guarantees. Skype used protocol (internet) based on "best effort" no guarantees...
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But.. skype vs PSTN is apples and oranges. Skype would be worthless unless it was running over the same infrastructure the PSTN built. The only thing Skype figured out was how to externalize all their costs on other businesses.
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Furthermore if "it" decentralizes , what are the advantages of being anonymous/ must it be anonymous at Base Layer and at end user level? Bittorrent eg and perhaps btc
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