This document discusses decentralized technologies and their advantages over centralized systems. It provides examples of early decentralized networks like BitTorrent for file sharing and Bitcoin for digital currency. It notes how decentralized applications built on blockchain networks can provide services for finance, computing, messaging and governance in a way that is globally accessible, reduces costs, and prevents censorship.

1. Decentralized
Technologies
Decentralized Global Network
William K. Santiago (william@wksit.com)
Twitter (#williamsantiago)

2. Decentralized Applications
Global Network
Reducing Cost
Removing Points of Failure
Prevents Censorship
Ensuring Transparency & Trust

3. Example
Bittorrent
File Sharing Network (early 2000)
Allows for the distribution of content
Quick and Easy

4. Five Years Later Bitcoin Technology
Bittorrent Blockchain
First Distributed Database
bitcoin
First Decentralized currency
Send money instantly and globally
with negligible fees

5. Uses of bitcoin decentralized currency
International Remittances
Micropayments
Commerce Online

6. Decentralized Applications (DAPPS)
Finance
Cloud Computing
Messaging
Distributed Governance
More to come…

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