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More recent protocol networks enjoy no such resiliency. No credible protocol network, after thirty years of attempts, has succeeded beyond niche adoption.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
Architecturally, the base layer of the blockchain is a peer-to-peer network. A blockchain pushes for decentralization via peer processing at its node locations. The network is really the computer. You verify each other transaction at the peer-to-peer level.
William Mougayar • The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology
every.to • Twitter as a City-State
It serves as a distributed accounting machine recording all token transactions and performing computation.
Shermin Voshmgir • Token Economy
You’re founding a startup society. You begin as a network union, maybe crowdfund territory to become a network archipelago, and could someday grow into a network state. All of these are types of parallel societies.