[decentrality]

Vint Cerf... drinking his own cool aid. Pure propaganda. Centrality can never do what he said. Using a centralized system in a decentralized and free way is bad systems strategy. Why not design for what we actually want rather than try to repurpose a system voted-up artificially by the US Department of Defense?

But we hacked ourselves. I still wonder what the world would be today if we had RINA from the start. Then even one word of that could be true:

"Our protocols were designed to make the networks of the Internet non-proprietary and interoperable. They avoided “lock-in,” and allowed for contributions from many sources. This openness is why the Internet creates so much value today. Because it is borderless and belongs to everyone, it has brought unprecedented freedoms to billions of people worldwide: the freedom to create and innovate, to organize and influence, to speak and be heard."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_Internetwork_Archite...

[andirk]

Dare I bring a space cash in to the convo but what do you think about a "decentralized internet" like the TRON project https://tron.network ?

[SkyMarshal]

Justin Sun's scam blockchain?

[andirk]

Do you have any sources? Or does blockchain = scam?

[kelnos]

Most blockchain stuff does seem pretty scammy, yes, so that's my default assumption. At best, if I'm being more charitable than it deserves, it's failed ideology.

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