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We often lazily associate centralized with costly and decentralized with cheap in any asymmetric conflict Botnets are centralized and cheap though. And when they actually work, peer review and journalism are decentralized and costly. Key is not cost but cost concentration.
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indeed, lots of things are this way: bitcoin needs immense processing power where centralized credit card servers handle many times the exchange traffic. Democracy is way more costly than central dictatorship