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    John Backus‏ @backus Jul 26

    Minimum viable decentralization: how to build decentralized products that people actually use! Decentralization/anonymity come at a cost. People don't care unless there is real risk. Lessons from file sharing, anonymizers, darknet markets, and Reddit!https://medium.com/@jbackus/minimum-viable-decentralization-d813dcf653fc …

    5:51 PM - 26 Jul 2018
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      2. Zebulon Virginia‏ @ZebulonVirginia Jul 27
        Replying to @backus

        So far I've read 2 of your articles on Medium... I assume they'll expect me to pay or something after the 3rd article? They'll have a long wait. Speaking of... what exactly causes slowness/latency (are they the same thing?)? You say decentralization & anonymity come with inheren

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      3. Zebulon Virginia‏ @ZebulonVirginia Jul 27
        Replying to @ZebulonVirginia @backus

        Inherent tradeoffs, but you don't explain why. Why can't we have fast anonymity? Will it be possible in the future?

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      4. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 27
        Replying to @ZebulonVirginia

        Yeah, I'm trying to opt out of Medium's paywall thing. If you view incognito it may work. Anonymity involves routing requests through multiple nodes which is slower than not. Tor already tries hard to minimize latency for sake of usability. Deep topic, read on I2P and Freenet

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      5. Zebulon Virginia‏ @ZebulonVirginia Jul 27
        Replying to @backus

        If we started a fork of the internet from the ground up (is fork the right word?)... could we not engineer it to be anonymous without routing shenanigans? Sorry if I'm expecting you to know too many things.

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      6. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 27
        Replying to @ZebulonVirginia

        Well, no matter the architecture some machine has to ask some other machine for a file, right? Anonymizing is just distancing yourself from that request, which requires indirection. Basically, I don't think you can get around it.

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      7. Bitcoin Munich‏ @bitcoinmuc Jul 27
        Replying to @backus @ZebulonVirginia

        If all data was end-to-end encrypted and stored in shards, the nodes wouldn't know which data you request. All that is known is that you're using a network.

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      8. Zebulon Virginia‏ @ZebulonVirginia Jul 27
        Replying to @bitcoinmuc @backus

        Thanx BM. A shard is like, a fragment of a file?

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      9. Bitcoin Munich‏ @bitcoinmuc Jul 27
        Replying to @ZebulonVirginia @backus

        yes. There are many projects in that direction, also mentioned Freenet already worked that way. It was slow, but there is probably room for much improvement. Could even be more efficient than the client-server model as large files can be downloaded from multiple sources.

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      2. Joh‏ @Joh16530775 Jul 26
        Replying to @backus

        And meshnet? If or is it too limited?

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      3. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 26
        Replying to @Joh16530775

        I don't know much about them yet, so my high level answer is just that complexity, user education, and latency matter. A meshnet would do well if there is something people want which they can only get on a meshnet

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      4. Joh‏ @Joh16530775 Jul 26
        Replying to @backus

        Find gotenna /samourai wallet quite interesting

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Pondsea‏ @p0nd3ea Jul 26
        Replying to @backus

        This is exactly the reason why CEX still have a stranglehold over this space. The next best thing are proxy assets/secured "gateways" which people think are decentralized. This space is not ready for a real DEX because there is no need to currently.

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      1. Ben Laurie‏Verified account @BenLaurie Jul 26
        Replying to @backus @zooko

        "Obviously something has to be decentralized". Obviously.

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      1. John Evans‏ @john_evans3 Jul 26
        Replying to @backus

        A month into crypto podcasts, and this seems like the key counter to bitcoin maximalists (who are otherwise very persuasive). The world doesn’t collapse very often.

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      1. DaoChemist‏ @DaoChemist Jul 27
        Replying to @backus

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        Couldn't agree more, there ought to be a greater focus on product fit in the crypto sphere:https://twitter.com/DaoChemist/status/1023071933376516096 …

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        DaoChemist @DaoChemist
        Product fit is a must when valuing any asset, especially crypto assets. Beyond the great wall of hype and talks of decentralization, project should answer real problems. @lendingblock has an amazing product fit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ge_bb8JJ90 … #crypto #HODL
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