Decentralization as natural selection Expensive adaptations (large brains) don’t evolve w/o survival pressure from environment. Popular decentralized systems evolve when governments want to install filters: copyright (BitTorrent), anti-money laundering (Bitcoin), content (Tor)
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Real hacking is months of research. Boring to watch, not flashy. Likewise, “lowlife and high tech” IRL is more cypherpunk than cyberpunk. Ambitious experts building resilient systems for years. Average Joes reading reddit tutorials on how to buy BTC, install Tor browser, use PGPhttps://twitter.com/backus/status/1016163344678453248 …
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