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95 - Summer of Protocols with Venkatesh Rao

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The Origins of Handshakes

Handshakes are a way to greet people from the outside and at the commerce level, barter is something you might do with people who are passing through the village. And things like token currencies issued by like sovereigns who are in the capital city far away from the village, that's like yet another third trusted third party. So all of that is protocols I think and it all starts with the building blocks as simple as handshakes.

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