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Distributed protocols that combat economy of scale
- To: [email protected]
- Subject: Distributed protocols that combat economy of scale
- From: [email protected] (Georgi Guninski)
- Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 16:18:31 +0200
- In-reply-to: <3928149.NAsv7Jq6H8@lapuntu>
- References: <3928149.NAsv7Jq6H8@lapuntu>
On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 04:41:05PM +0100, rysiek wrote:
> So let me pose a question here: is it possible to design a protocol that does
> not succumb to economy of scale-based secondary centralisation? Is it possible
> to design a protocol that does not lend itself to economy of scale?
>
Maybe it is possible to design such, but design is not that important.
You _must_ implement it in the real world(tm).
Some of your threats include:
people
technology (backdoors, bugs, sickyouaruty)
TLAs
governments
Won't be surprised if bitcoin is illegal in parts of the real world(tm).