Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
The skiff situation is a good reminder of why decentralized ecosystems are so valuable. Challenge question @dwr.eth @v : how far along is Farcaster in this regard? If hypothetically your team got acquihired by Facebook (or Tencent, or...) tomorrow, how well would the ecosystem be able to keep going?
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
assume malicious acquirer. for ecosystem to survive intact would need: 1. decentralized contracts 2. decentralized hub network 3. easy to use client with 80% warpcast parity 4. good steward for protocol governance.
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
decentralized contracts i'd give us a 4/5. would be able to decentralize control in a day or two. problem is (4) or finding the right stewards
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
decentralized hub network i'd give us a 5/5. works very well right now, several hundred hubs running in production. easy to understand codebase etc.
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
easy to use client i'd give us a 1/5 right now. lots of teams working on this, but still early. if warpcast disappeared tomorrow, it is plausible that a lot of users would churn before a replacement emerged.
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Waku
@waku
Waku maybe able to help with decentralized hub network. We have defined a suite of modular protocols to enable censorship-resistant and private comms. This includes solving problems at both the peer discovery and message routing layers, maximizing decentralization for those both to enable actual censorship resistance.
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