Re:Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
by gaogao on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @03:15PM
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Could you give an example of something with this decentralization quality as you described?
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Re:Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
by Spearchucker on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @03:24PM
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Mastodon. You can set your own server up and benefit from all othe other existing servers. Mastodon provides a decentralised service running on decentralised infrastructure. You can run your server as you see fit, because access to the wider network is federated.
Zuckbucks provide a centralised service running on decentralised infrastructure. Try add your own server to help run Zuck's blockchain...
Git comes to mind as well, I can go to Bitbucket or Gitlab and upload my repository with its full history in seconds. Or my own self-hosted repository if I wanted.
I don't agree with grandparent for what it's worth, just thought this might work as a reply to your question.
Re:Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
by ChainOfFools on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @03:25PM
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Other than universal entropy, probably nothing. Though math is also decentralized, maybe even moreso, being independent of time. So maybe "nothing that is relevant on a human timescale" is closer.
I strongly suspect that what we have developed a habit of calling decentralization, as if this referred to a final state of a proposed coordination solution, is in fact just a temporary, transitional phase between centralized regimes.