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Dr. Quadragon ❌

Not everything needs to be peer-to-peer.

Not all things are actually viable to do in peer-to-peer. For example, peer-to-peer systems have a problem reliably saving state, therefore most of them are by necessity stateless - or terribly slow like blockchain (which is, again, okay for _some_ applications).

That's why client-server architecture exists - it provides a missing piece.

The question is - who controls the servers, and if you can meaningfully take part in its governance - or viably secede and incorporate your own server.

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ikt πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

@drq when you say terribly slow like blockchain, are you referring to bitcoin?

Nano appears to be quite a bit faster:

nanoticker.info/

It looks to be doing 1.4 blocks a second, so if doing a transaction takes under a second to confirm that sounds pretty fast to me?

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@drq

Well obviously you need blockchains and DAOs to manage consensus govern the server in any meaningful way

/s

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