[svlug] Blockchain

[Karen Shaeffer]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 10:19:18PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Marc MERLIN (marc_news at merlins.org):
> 
> > Rusty gave a great talk to blockchain at linux.conf.au 2017, in just a
> > few minutes:
> > https://youtu.be/brNmfD1Lb7M?t=40m38s
> 
> And very few words! 
> 
> I love Rusty Russell's presentations, good every time.

It was quite humorous to me. Ironically, the last few slides seemed to
have a duality in meaning. Some folks might see the sinking titantic as
symbolic of an organization suffering from group-think over confidence.
In the titantic case it lead to hitting the iceburg. In business, it
lead to the crash of Sun Microsystems as an example.

And the crash of Sun Microsystems also correlated with the dot-com bust
in 2000. IMHO, this market shock changed the linux adoption curve
trajectory within the business community dramatically accelerating the
business adoption rate of linux at the expense of Sun. Furthermore it
was the early support of linux by IBM and Intel along with Google's use
case that set the stage for this meteoric rise of linux. Just thinking
out loud.

humbly,
Karen
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