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Re:Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style by croes on Monday January 02, 2023 @10:10AM (#34218683)
Blockchain is a distributed ledger.
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Re:Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style by z3c0 on Monday January 02, 2023 @11:11AM (#34219509)
Looking into it, you're correct, but only insofar as we're referring to two different meanings of distributed. Bitcoin is a distributed ledger, as in "fault tolerant". But the consensus mechanism is decentralized. Thus, the decision-making is not distributed.

A distributed consensus mechanism would segment the decisions amongst nodes, not poll for a unanimous response.

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