Tony’s rule of decentralized systems: they all eventually become centralized systems (a.k.a. “nature abhors a vacuum”)https://twitter.com/theantnest/status/994675357990170629 …
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The elusive thing decentralization advocates want... but they still haven’t found what they’re looking for
fiendish to design bc one thing net actually does well is asynchronous/some cases autonomous coordination over arbitrary distance
everyone wants to build hawala without understanding the whole point is hawala leverages trust to cope with infrastructure failure
whereas what they're actually trying to do is build reliable infrastructure that obviates trust
cf manorialism (necessity) vs many failed 20th century back to the land/down to the countryside movements/policies (mere desire)
And usually that infeasibility is just illegality
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