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EP16 Anaconda CTO Peter Wang on The Distributed Internet

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The Importance of Signaling in Open Source

The fungible token aspect of economics is just there to scale transactions beyond the zone of trust, right? Because if you're exchanging cows and chickens for fishes and fishnets, your zone of trust is like a clan or a tribe level. If you want to trade silks with people across the mountains, you got to have something else,. But that's not as useful when it comes to these kinds of activities. It's almost like every project has its own kind of token. The reputational signal from working on an important or even an unimportant open source project can be very valuable.

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