Resistant protocols: How decentralization evolves - John Backus - Medium
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Decentralization is tough: Too little? You're dead. Too much? Unusable. We can learn a lot from the evolution of p2p file sharing
Resistant protocols: How decentralization evolves - John Backus - Medium Resistant protocols: How decentralization evolves John Backus Follow Jul 25, 2018 · 24 min read Why do we build decentralized technologies? How do we predict what will be successful, what will get shutdown, and what will end up as a science experiment that no one uses in practice? As I’ve written before, blockchain isn’t the first decentralization craze and we can learn a lot from studying the history of p2p file sharing . By examining how decentralization for file sharing evolved, I think a few lessons stand out: Mainstr
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