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Re: Recommend? a community around web3.0/blockchain/decentralization to join

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Post by labster » Mon, Jan 15, 2018, 7:09 PM UTC

W09h wrote: post #14

labster wrote: post #11

I feel like your community could maybe have even more buzzwords, like cloud, Rust, or startup.

On a serious note, I suspect you think decentralization is a fad, and I’d be curious why you think that?

Decentralization comes and goes. Gnutella clients used to be the rage, and now YouTube and Netflix are kings. The cloud is the new mainframe. We will shift into distributed software then back to consolidated platforms, and the pendulum will keep moving.

Re: Recommend? a community around web3.0/blockchain/decentralization to join

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Post by xiphias » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 6:44 PM UTC

labster wrote: post #21

W09h wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On a serious note, I suspect you think decentralization is a fad, and I’d be curious why you think that?

Decentralization comes and goes. Gnutella clients used to be the rage, and now YouTube and Netflix are kings. The cloud is the new mainframe. We will shift into distributed software then back to consolidated platforms, and the pendulum will keep moving.

Decentralized money was/is needed to build robust infrastructure, as Gnutella supernodes couldn't be well incensivised before. I believe most of the decentralized services will become practical in a few years after Bitcoin adoption gets higher. They are not that practical yet.

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