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Re:Lightning Network: “Bitcoin Doesn’t Scale” [pdf] by willejs on Friday February 27, 2015 @08:36AM (#9118710)
"But for all bittorrent's success, Netflix (and others), which are centralized and highly controlled alternatives, are far more popular and commercially successful for watching online video -- it is just less work to use Netflix, even though it doesn't have the benefits of being free and open."

What about skype, that was built upon supernodes, and was decentralised?

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Re:Lightning Network: “Bitcoin Doesn’t Scale” [pdf] by bhouston on Friday February 27, 2015 @08:41AM (#9118729)
Skype was never radically decentralized -- it was a managed centralized/decentralized network. Its decentralization was to offload costs onto users to provide a cost advantage compared to running a lot of centralized hardware, but otherwise it was centralized.

Skype accounts were centrally registered and a single company was responsible for network health, security, etc.

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