97c70 - 5d
To contextualize the adoption of cryptography: - Public key crypto was invented in 1976 - Bitcoin was invented in 2009, 33 years later - In 2025 (49 years later), cryptography is still a niche topic - The printing press was invented around 1440 - By 1470 (30 years later), a handful of presses had been established in major cities - In 1500 (60 years later), there were only 417 presses - By the 1550s (110 years later), printing presses were in use globally Transformational technologies go through a period of obscurity, then centralized control, then eventually become universally accessible. My hope is that we are just coming out of the centralized control phase of cryptography and the internet.
97c70 - 15h
could be
freemymind 🇨🇭 @freemymind 🇨🇭 - 15h
Thank you for this. I so often think in this exponential growth, related to free software. Probably every feature is first created in some propriatary product. Gets big adaption through commercialisation, then some builder want to get control over the feature and publishes a first version of it. From there it is improved until people see, that the free version is similar or better with more transparency. And therefore I assume, that in the future every critical component of software will eventually be replaced by free code.
97c70 - 14h
No, but that is a fascinating map
