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by vorhemus 1638 days ago
Decentralization and taking power out of the hands of large corporations is no guarantee of success - otherwise Napster would have to dominate the music streaming market today and not Spotify.

> prior to the Bitcoin Paper we literally didn't know how to have permissionless

Simply not true. Torrents allow you to store and retrieve objects from a decentralized object "database" without an individual having control over it.