> Fostering and scaling cooperation is really difficult. It all depends on incentive. BitTorrent was so popular that it had to be outlawed and heavily persecut

> Fostering and scaling cooperation is really difficult. It all depends on incentive. BitTorrent was so popular that it had to be outlawed and heavily persecuted > It doesn’t stand in for all the slow and messy bureaucracy and debate and human processes that go into building cooperation, and it never will. Blockchains didn't want to go there anyway. But they replace the implied trust in statespersons that lies behind any bureaucracy with machines. thats quite radical, even if you layer a huge trust-based bureaucracy on top of that. > there is no linear-causal relationship between decentralization in technical systems and egalitarian or equitable practices socially There is a causal relationship between centralization of the internet and monopolies/inequality and everything that people hate