[neffy]

Quite possibly, but they are also quite correct - you cannot scale a full mesh network to anything remotely resembling the capacity required, it has to be some kind of sharded, p2p topology.

At which point, and the irony here is quite profound I agree, you are starting to look at something that looks a lot like the existing banking system.

[EGreg]

Yeah we need to have massively parallel systems, but that doesn’t necessarily mean what they have for banking and centralized databases... there are a lot of innovations that have happened since the introduction of Bitcoin. I could show you the actual whitepaper and link you to the pages describing the major design breakthroughs in simple terms but I won’t because that would apparently be shilling my project (Intercoin, not Holochain). Just take my word for it ... there is a lot that is far beyond blockchain.