The scalability problem in blockchain is completely invented and the view that scalability is difficult is based on highly faulty premises. (yes, I know, you disagree)
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1/ If you bake break in a glass-blower's kiln then don't complain that it is burnt. Decentralization is a social phenomenon, so the technology requirements for what it means to be decentralized are incredibly fuzzy and hard to formulate
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2/ today, decentralized kinda means "like Bitcoin". Well, Bitcoin developers put an incredibly stringent set of requirements on their system. Under that set of requirements scaling is, indeed, quite hard.
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3/ In fact, it is intentionally hard. If you, however, play with the "centralized-decentralized" lever just a little bit, the problem disappears. In the environment where no real experimentation has been done to try and dismiss any of the less stringent models...
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4/ ... it is way to early to say what works and what doesn't. It is not even clear whether blockchain is even needed. Peer-to-peer distributed trust systems (not trustless, distributed-trust) are a potential solution which can run on an iPhone no problem
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5/ The problem here is not scalability. The problem is that we need to build every system from scratch, because we don't abstract at the right layer. We currently abstract above the base economic layer. We need to abstract at the data management layer and below the base economics
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6/ So there are so few platforms coming out, because building new platforms is a shit-ton of work. From coding, to marketing, to ICO, to... whatever the scenario dictates. Instead, we need a way to launch thousands new platforms, every dApp should have its own platform.
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7/ Only then will we find the right balance between speed, decentralization, safety, and accessibility. And the scalability problem? It doesn't exist. Not all by itself, the way people think about it.
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