THE VIDEO SHELF · decentralization challenges
36C3 - The ecosystem is moving
Moxie Marlinspike's 36C3 talk examines why distributed and decentralized technology is hard to build into consumer products, from the perspective of developing Signal. It argues that ecosystems move slowly and federation causes problems.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited in decentralization and federation debates as the key talk on the practical challenges, though some found it defeatist.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- media.ccc.de
- Topic
- decentralization challenges
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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A talk by Moxie at CCC deals with this exact question. > “ Considerations for distributed and decentralized technologies from the perspective of a product that many would like to see decentralize. > Amongst an environment of enthusiasm for blockchain-based technologies, efforts to decentralize the …
seanieb on Hacker News · 2021-11
In Telegram Ad PlatformThere's a great CCC presentation by Moxie (Signal originator) on that [VIDEO] ~summarized in text form [LINK]
blfr on Hacker News · 2025-01
In Why Twitter is such a big deal (2009)
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