128. – The Year of Magical Thinking (ft. Wendy Liu)
This Machine Kills
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Is Open Sea the Best of Both Worlds?
There's a stealth centralization built into this because it relies on a few intermediaries who have complete visibility over both read and write arequest but they don't share that visibility to everybody else. I can run my own mail server, but t doesn't functionally matter for privacy, censorship, resistance or control, because gmal is going to be on the other end of every male that i send or receive. Once a distributed ecosystem centralizes around a platform for convenience, it becomes the worst of both worlds, centralized control, but still distributed enough to become mired in time. If open sea mediates the view of all nfts in the wallet people use, and ever other ap in the
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