Not enough people have seen Jim McCoy on Mojo Nation at DEF CON 8 (July 2000):https://youtu.be/r76WIdqjw4s
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Lots of Mojo Nation fun facts. :-) (1) The company started to create it was called "Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow." (2) Some of their employees included Bram Cohen (went onto create BitTorrent) and Zooko (who did Zcash amongst many other things).
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They tried to create a tokenized protocol in 2000! Read this post by
@NickSzabo4 from 2007 and the discussion with@zooko and Jim McCoy discussing the role of tokens / markets, allowing people to cash out to fiat, and network currencies vs. game theory http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2007/06/nanobarter.html?showComment=1181708460000 …1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
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There is also a Mojo Nation post-mortem from
@zooko which is worth reading. See: http://www.cs.kent.edu/~javed/class-FP2P10S/papers-2006/mojonation.pdf …https://twitter.com/backus/status/1004499981481402368 …John Backus added,
John Backus @backusMojoNation was a visionary project. In@zooko's post mortem, he mentions some assumptions about usage that didn't pan out, causing problems. IMO, Jim's comment doesn't reject tokens. Instead, he is acknowledging that the token added too much complexity to an already grand vision pic.twitter.com/NAltFWWXjQShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
I've shared many other things about Mojo Nation as part of my deep dive comparing p2p file sharing to today's blockchain / decentralization movement. If you're curious, this search should turn up some other tweets attached to relevant threads on this topic https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Abackus%20Mojo%20Nation&src=typd …
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