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
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Understand what decentralization means
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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
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Provide incentives
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Reduce the cost of decent.
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Improve on the state of the art
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Encode the principles
Keep on rocking the decentralized web
Nicola Greco
@nicolagreco
me@nicola.io
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