By Larry Chiang
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Ari Paul (@AriDavidPaul) |
In the “nuclear war” between governments and blockchains, only the cockroach protocols will survive.
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“Cockroach protocols”
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Ari Paul (@AriDavidPaul) |
1/ “Cockroach” protocols are those that are hyper resilient and survive just about anything.
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Ari Paul (@AriDavidPaul) |
2/ they survive attempts by malicious economic actors to doublespend or take control. They survive attempts by governments to regulate/ban.
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Ari Paul (@AriDavidPaul) |
3/ What produces this resiliency? Decentralization (of network, of nodes, of developers), community ideology, and a stable protocol.
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
I’ll google CoachRoach protocols 3 Saturdays from now cc 🕷🐜🐔 twitter.com/aridavidpaul/s…
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
@AriDavidPaul Googled “Cockroach protocols” 2.1 weeks early; and came full circle back to #thatsSoCubbie pic.twitter.com/Fezl6eXhMi
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Paul Graham mentors startups to —
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Asse9 Austin Secret (@asse9) |
“cockroach” paulGraham.com/badeconomy.html @LarryChiang
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