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No, you've misclassified the problem. Decentralized consensus is hard. Decentralized is a stricter criterion than distributed. Decentralized means there is no c
by wyager 10y ago
No, you've misclassified the problem. Decentralized consensus is hard. Decentralized is a stricter criterion than distributed. Decentralized means there is no central authority. Facebook "solves" this by having a centralized identity registrar, which wouldn't work for Bitcoin, because that would inherently give control of the network to whoever owns the registrar. In cryptocurrencies this is called the "sybil attack problem".
- zby 10y agoThere is no one definition of the difference between decentralized and distributed - everyone has his own. This is a huge problem when talking about this stuff.