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A good rule of thumb: Centralization has the optimal best-case. Decentralization has the optimal worst-case. For example, Bitcoin, while robust and reliable, i
by rsa25519 6y ago
A good rule of thumb: Centralization has the optimal best-case. Decentralization has the optimal worst-case.
For example, Bitcoin, while robust and reliable, is slow. Discord, while sometimes down, is generally fast and featureful.
- gsich 6y agoThat comparison doesn't hold.
- alwillis 6y agoFor example, Bitcoin, while robust and reliable, is slow. For normal, everyday transactions, the Lightning Network is what people use, where transactions take only seconds: https://medium.com/@The1Brand7/lightning-faq-67bd2b957d70 https://medium.com/@The1Brand7/lightning-faq-67bd2b957d70
- dependenttypes 6y ago> Discord, while sometimes down, is generally fast and featureful. No, Discord is slow due to all the weird js crap that they have put in it, even with 8GB ram I have trouble running it alongside other software (both in electron and on firefox). It is also not featureful, you can't disable image previewing for example.