Can Blockchains Solve Ten Years of Standardization Failure?
summary
Ten years of decentralization efforts produce a string of technical failures and specific takeaways: identity standards fragment (OpenID gives way to OAuth → Google/Facebook sign‑in), syndication splinters into incompatible RSS versions (RSS version sprawl), federated wins like Indymedia use RDF but collapse from bad specs, and W3C standards bend under membership money and DRM. Blockchains offer concrete advantages: built‑in token funding for open standards, verifiable credentials, and new governance models; insist on royalty‑free patents, formal crypto proofs, privacy by design, and rough consensus and running code.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:55Identity
- 4:45Persistent Identity
- 8:07Metadata
- 13:13Decentralized Facebook
- 16:45What we did wrong
- 18:00Common patterns
- 18:55Common standards
- 20:46W3C DRM
- 23:16Balance of Power
- 25:16Lessons Learned
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