Distributed protocols that combat economy of scale

Georgi Guninski guninski at guninski.com
Mon Mar 7 06:18:31 PST 2016


On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 04:41:05PM +0100, rysiek wrote:
> So let me pose a question here: is it possible to design a protocol that does 
> not succumb to economy of scale-based secondary centralisation? Is it possible 
> to design a protocol that does not lend itself to economy of scale?
>

Maybe it is possible to design such, but design is not that important.

You _must_ implement it in the real world(tm).

Some of your threats include:

people
technology (backdoors, bugs, sickyouaruty)
TLAs
governments

Won't be surprised if bitcoin is illegal in parts of the real world(tm).



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