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Absolutely, it's a trade-off, and is probably strictly worse for power users. As a counterpoint to Bitcoin (which is still quite a young and under-adopted prot
by theptip 9y ago
Absolutely, it's a trade-off, and is probably strictly worse for power users.
As a counterpoint to Bitcoin (which is still quite a young and under-adopted protocol), consider how hard it has proven to upgrade the IP protocol from version 4 to 6 (20 years and still not complete?)
- im3w1l 9y agoIp works at a much deeper level which is why it's harder to change. Everything uses ip, including hardware and software that's no longer getting updated but is still in use.
- theptip 9y agoWhich supports my point -- the quote "federation does freeze protocols in time" was being questioned, and IPv4 is the textbook example of a federated protocol that was frozen in time.