Subject: “What if BitTorrent had a token?” published by John Backus
From: "Medium Daily Digest" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 13:20:00 +0000 (UTC)

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What if BitTorrent had a token? (https://medium.com/@jbackus/what-if-bittorrent-had-a-token-13d62a590aa7?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1552044893683-digest.reader------0-59------------------2cc34f26_696f_42d4_a109_485d8cffb03e-1&sectionName=top)

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