One reason this has been discovered as of late in tech circles is Bitcoin. Professor Arvind Narayanan at Princeton cited this in May 2015, as the Bitcoin commu

One reason this has been discovered as of late in tech circles is Bitcoin. Professor Arvind Narayanan at Princeton cited this in May 2015, as the Bitcoin community was having debates about decentralization and what it meant for governance. See the fifth footnote in this blog post entitled "Bitcoin faces a crossroads, needs an effective decision-making process ": https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/05/11/bitcoin-faces-a-crossroads-needs-an-effective-decision-making-process/ https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/05/11/bitcoin-faces-a-cro... Also, this tweet: https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1005151684807610368 https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1005151684807610368