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Amishman

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48. The concept and protocol was gov and uni based, the modern network capitalism

Reply to FormerOstrich (Reply #13)

Thu Feb 28, 2019, 07:57 PM

Feb 2019

Building on the foundation provided by that research.

Like most complex things, it has no single creator or architect

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The concept and protocol was gov and uni based, the modern network capitalism Amishman Feb 2019 #48

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