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Re:Do kwon sent $80M a month to secret wallets? by threeseed on Thursday June 09, 2022 @06:19PM (#31687676)
For me blockchain is peer to peer 2.0.

Lot of hype back in the day that this technology e.g. torrent was going to revolutionise the internet and society would never be the same.

And whilst it is still widely used today and has practical use cases e.g. data distribution it wasn't transformative.

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Re:Do kwon sent $80M a month to secret wallets? by matthewdgreen on Thursday June 09, 2022 @06:29PM (#31687778)
>And whilst it is still widely used today and has practical use cases e.g. data distribution it wasn't transformative.

This comment reminds me of the scene in The Social Network where Eduardo Saverin taunts Sean Parker about Napster losing to the record companies, and Parker says "you wanna buy a Tower Records, Eduardo?"

By which I mean: just because peer-to-peer didn't win as a technology, does not mean it wasn't transformative. We live in a world where the iPod could launch and we have access to $10/mo unlimited (centralized) streaming. This world exists because the mere existence of p2p technology places limits on the way that the content industry can operate.

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