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Re:Ask HN: When is federation a better solution than decentr... by nathcd on Monday May 28, 2018 @10:11AM (#17172489)
> That’s the scalability issue of Blockchain. Fully decentralization cannot afford scalability, just as we cannot afford referendum on every polical proposal.

What you're talking about here is decentralized consensus, which is very different than just decentralization. Regular old decentralization -- a la Secure Scuttlebutt -- has no such scaling issues.

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