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I feel like there’s probably some kind of law that distributed systems always loose out to consolidated ones due to overhead. Unless it’s explicitly for circumv
by BreakfastB0b 5y ago
I feel like there’s probably some kind of law that distributed systems always loose out to consolidated ones due to overhead. Unless it’s explicitly for circumventing the law like torrents or most crypto currencies.
How could Ethereum possibly compete in terms of transaction cost or ease of use with Facebook or some other centralised system.
- Ieghaehia9 5y agoAny distributed system can be simulated by a consolidated one by just running everything internally, but the converse is much harder (unless P=NC). So the distributed system can only win if the consolidated system is vulnerable to abuse of power, or resilience is a desired property, or lack of barriers to entry makes the distributed system better.