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Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by rburhum on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @08:32AM (#17354742)
What part of "Distributed Ledger" seems centralized to you?
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Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by zaidf on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @09:39AM (#17355207)
Distributed doesn’t necessarily mean “decentralized”. I can have a distributed database stored across 5 servers. It wouldn’t mean my database is “decentralized.”
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Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by rburhum on Saturday June 23, 2018 @09:55AM (#17381272)
Fair enough. But why do you say Ripple is centralized?
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