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by tyingq 3356 days ago
>4. Has anyone ever built a useful and successful decentralized service.

It does seem like "incentive" is the missing piece. The two somewhat successful, somewhat decentralized things I can think of are Bitcoin and TOR. Both provide some compelling incentive to either join as a user or to subsidize infrastructure.

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And BitTorrent.