Distributed protocols that combat economy of scale

[rysiek@hackerspace.pl (rysiek)]

Dnia niedziela, 6 marca 2016 11:20:54 piszesz:
> There's always things like TorChat for instant messaging and IPFS for
> content distribution. There's no concept of any centralisation in
> either - they're completely peer-to-peer.

Such was also the idea in BitCoin. As we can see, there's a secondary (not 
protocol-level) centralisation happening there. Cartels emerge, because 
economy of scale makes them viable, and indeed profitable.

Yes, TorChat, IPFS, Tox are good examples. I'd be hard-pressed to identify any 
economy of scale possible there, I guess.

> I'm not sure why you drew a comparison to e-mail - it's inherently
> centralized, just among several servers.

It's not centralized in a way Facebook is, for example. While e-mail was 
obviously never a p2p system, it was not a centralized system. The idea was 
decentralized, federated among *many* servers.

But economy of scale did its magic and now we have a small number of companies 
controlling almost all of it.

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