Connecting decentralization + obfuscation process of file sharing to digital currency. Rough draft: • Beenz/Flooz → FTP and IRC • DigiCash → MojoNation (visionary, too early) • e-gold → Napster • Bitcoin → Limewire/Kazaa/eDonkey • Zcash → BitTorrent Thoughts?
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Zcash is more like Freenet
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Replying to @ashconnor @zooko
Do you mean that in a positive or negative way?
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I was just drawing the comparison between encryption and zero knowledge proofs. Nobody knows who anyone else is in both systems.
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Ah gotcha. Yeah, for these comparisons I was thinking about how the market evolved in the past which didn’t favor Freenet’s extreme choices. Minimum viable decentralizationhttps://medium.com/@jbackus/minimum-viable-decentralization-d813dcf653fc …
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Good article.
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