🐎 This crypto-fueled decentralized protocol craze is an antitrust trojan horse. Do people calling to break up Big Tech realize Silicon Valley might accidentally trust-bust itself? 💢
Ex: Twitter couldn’t freeze out 3rd party apps like it has if backend was decentralized
Ex: Twitter couldn’t freeze out 3rd party apps like it has if backend was decentralized
🔐 The blockchain ecosystem is also investing insane amounts of cash into finding viable UI for interacting w/ private keys.
This may help privacy advocates find ways to make the equivalent of GPG emails (and much more) easier to use and accessible in key apps like the browser
This may help privacy advocates find ways to make the equivalent of GPG emails (and much more) easier to use and accessible in key apps like the browser
🧠 Young people sniffing around cryptocurrencies end up learning cryptography and distributed systems terms: “zero knowledge proofs”, “the byzantine generals problem”, etc
I wouldn’t be surprised if this motivates more students to study these areas in college
I wouldn’t be surprised if this motivates more students to study these areas in college
💰 Even if you’re skeptical of all the crypto companies county ICOs, bottom line is they’re going to try to launch crypto-based distributed systems. p2p file sharing provided lots of production networks for academia to study (Kademlia, Gnutella, FastTrack, BitTorrent).
Silver linings for crypto-haters:
At least blockchain might…
🐎 Incentivize tech industry to not build monopolies
🔐 Fund UI experiments for privacy tools
🧠 Expose students to cryptography, distributed systems
🎓 Provide crypto + distributed systems case studies for academia
At least blockchain might…
🐎 Incentivize tech industry to not build monopolies
🔐 Fund UI experiments for privacy tools
🧠 Expose students to cryptography, distributed systems
🎓 Provide crypto + distributed systems case studies for academia
