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95 - Summer of Protocols with Venkatesh Rao

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The Role of Protocols in Rule of Law Decentralization

One of our other hypotheses is that protocols as a first class citizen naturally lend themselves to becoming more p2p rule of law decentralized over time fundamentally because of the way they interact with technology. This is not to say there aren't like centrally controlled highly centralized protocols like you know if you go to the royal court of the monarchs of England which I think most people in the crypto world would have a distaste for. To take a less socially loaded example I like thinking of the Hubble space telescope and the James Webb space telescope these are hugely expensive multi-billion dollar centralized resources sitting out there in space. The resource itself being centralized forces a certain centralization of the protocols that get designed around it

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