Indeed. Truly decentralised systems (peer to peer; where every node is equal) have that safeguard as an inherent property of their topology.https://twitter.com/ecoinomia/status/922810834744733696 …
I use decentralised to mean what @dsearls calls “distributed” in his famous diagrams. i.e., no centres, not many centres
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If there are centres (eg. the client/server architecture of the web), then those centres can be economically incentivised to grow/coalesce.
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A system where each node has equal weight (peer to peer) does not share this weakness. There are no economies of scale.
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I explain a bit more about this here: http://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2014/03/21/escaping-the-black-holes-of-centralization/ … Note the drawings, including this:pic.twitter.com/KFrJR5toQx
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so BitTorrent networks based on magnet are good too
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oki
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