Practical decentralization

We reject kings, presidents, voting

We believe in rough consensus and running code

- David Clark

Center for Decentralization

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Central aims

  • Understand what decentralization means

  • Get everyone under the same umbrella ☂️

  • Manifesto june-july 2016

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"Now go forth and spread the gospel"

       - Church of Orthodox Decentralization pastor

  • Use this decentralized social network
  • Use this decentralized payment system
  • Use this decentralized chat
  • You can sign in with your own identity,
    you just have to type name@provider & press Confirm
  • Just use PGP

What if trust becomes a need?

The cost of decentralization

Why decentralization?

Trust

Control

Autonomy

Power

Interoperability

Portability

Permanence

Consensus

Resilience

Censorship

Ideology

Incentives

  • Bittorrent is for downloading movies
  • Bitcoins is for buying drugs
  • IPFS is for geeks

Incentives

Economic

Power

Legal

Interoperability

Privacy

Technical

Easy

The costs

Blockchains for everything

Switching platforms

yet another chat

slow system

slow system

Code is law

  • Provide incentives

  • Reduce the cost of decent.

  • Improve on the state of the art

  • Encode the principles

Keep on rocking the decentralized web

Nicola Greco

@nicolagreco

me@nicola.io

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