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    John Backus‏ @backus May 23

    BitTorrent does a surprising amount of game theory under the hood!pic.twitter.com/Mz1EoGu2Yq

    10:15 PM - 23 May 2018
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      2. Matt Lockyer‏ @mattdlockyer May 24
        Replying to @backus @aalexis1234

        Bullish on Chia

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      3. John Backus‏ @backus May 24
        Replying to @mattdlockyer @aalexis1234

        Yeah Bram is smart. Google the history of Mojo Network -> BitTorrent

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      4. John Backus‏ @backus May 24
        Replying to @backus @mattdlockyer @aalexis1234

        Sorry, MojoNation*

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      2. Prathan "Never Gonna Give You Up"‏ @scomma May 25
        Replying to @backus

        Not surprising IMO. It was the defining character that set BT apart from other goodwill-based sharing protocols.

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      3. John Backus‏ @backus May 25
        Replying to @scomma

        People spend years trying to solve this stuff. The rest of p2p wasn't goodwill. Google any of the following: EigenTrust Kazaa "participation level" eMule's credit system "SWIFT Tamilmani" "KARMA Vishnumurthy" PPay PeerMint MMAPPS PeerMart MojoNation

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      2. Sumanth  ⚡‏ @SuMastodon May 23
        Replying to @backus

        I didn't know Bram wrote white papers for it, are these just documentation?

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      3. John Backus‏ @backus May 23
        Replying to @SuMastodon

        Not sure what he would call the format, but the title is "Incentives Build Robustness in BitTorrent": http://www.bittorrent.org/bittorrentecon.pdf …

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      1. Josh Stodola‏ @JoshStodola Jul 3
        Replying to @backus @WebTorrentApp

        I’d say gaming does a lot of file sharing theory under the hood

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      1. David Wong‏ @cryptodavidw May 25
        Replying to @backus

        same things happen for cryptocurrency clients

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      1. Anna Gát‏ @TheAnnaGat May 24
        Replying to @backus @webdevMason

        Uh oh @PeterIsztin

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      1. MFabian.‏ @marcfabianco May 24
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        @younastv

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