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Re:Project Atlas by RL_Quine on Monday October 01, 2018 @07:26AM (#18111654)
Making it a better sentence is possible, making the system itself exist in the real world much less so. You can't make systems like this as described due to the reality that all decentralized systems face; the sybil problem, and by extension all the problems that occur when people try to solve that with a web of trust.
Re:Project Atlas by Erlich_Bachman on Monday October 01, 2018 @08:56AM (#18112131)
Why does it work in Bitcoin and other PoW blockchains?
Re:Project Atlas by MrEldritch on Monday October 01, 2018 @09:06AM (#18112187)
It didn't work; that's why Bitcoin has steadily become more centralized until it became non-decentralized enough to be practical.
Re:Project Atlas by Erlich_Bachman on Monday October 01, 2018 @09:12AM (#18112224)
So are we arguing semantics now and the exact definition of the word "decentralized"? Well alright, let's agree about this for the sake of argument.

What stops this proposed project from working in the same "decentralized" way that Bitcoin and other PoW schemes are "decentralized" right now, and are working practically? Why wouldn't it work in torrents?