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the_stc on Aug 16, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Token Effect

Again, if TCP/IP captured money, how would that fund HTTP - they are not related (ETH doesn't fund random tokens on top of the Ethereum blockchain, so why would the TCP/IP people getting money give it to other protocols?). There is already enough lock-in with protocols due to inertia and politics. Adding money to it seems like it wouldn't improve things. If anything, it seems like it'd only make things worse. BitTorrent got money and that didn't seem to help them very much.

Tokens offer a different path, mostly because you can buy and sell them so freely. It's link pink sheets on steroids.

mhluongo on Aug 16, 2017 [–]

I wasn't suggesting TCP/IP funding should be used to fund HTTP, I was just using HTTP as an example.

Though there is something interesting there- protocols with funding sharing with others built atop to increase network effects.

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