Network and systems operations
The study of distributed systems in computer science predates the release of the Netscape browser (1994). It has a long track record for informing how pre-internet, centrally controlled networks should behave. These systems addressed different problems than the ones emerging now as connectivity scales, people become more dispersed, and trust in institutions wanes.
Satoshi Nakamoto’s bitcoin protocol (Proof of Work) proposed a novel and surprisingly robust consensus mechanism for a decentralized setting. However,