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Is decentralization cheaper or more expensive than centralization? I cannot come to a conclusion on that question.
by robertAngst 8y ago
Is decentralization cheaper or more expensive than centralization?
I cannot come to a conclusion on that question.
- okket 8y agoI guess that question gets answered when the last email was sent and all communication happens through WhatsApp or similar.
- wolfgke 8y ago> I guess that question gets answered when the last email was sent and all communication happens through WhatsApp or similar. Not so easy: There are lots of other factors than cost which decide what wins in a market, such as - trends/hypes - convenience - being available at the right time (in the right place) - ...
- orbital-decay 8y agoDepends on your metric. But typically, there's quite a bit of overhead in most decentralized systems, that's one of the reasons they don't gain widespread adoption.
- api 8y agoDecentralization smears the cost over time and space as constant cost to everyone and constant small failures everywhere. Centralization concentrates it into smaller spaces and larger but rarer failures.