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by ggg9990 2896 days ago
The thing that made the Internet adoptable by the masses was centralization: first onto the single protocol of HTTP, then onto the single search engine of Google, and then onto the handful of Web giants today. If Bitcoin follows the same path it will be abdicating it’s very raison d’etre.
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HTTP is standardization - eg LN/BTC. Google is centralized service on an open network, ala Coinbase.
BitTorrent?