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by asfgfsigninoi 1677 days ago
Every incarnation I've heard of is comparably slow. People claim to have ways to improve efficiency but I haven't heard of anything within three orders of magnitude of performance of the Windows 95 machine rusting in my garage.
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The canonical way to get around the inevitable inefficiency of decentralization at scale is to quietly re-add centralization (ReFi?) and bury it under technical neologisms and benchmarks.

"Look how fast and innovative $cryptocurrency is! I totally didn't just reinvent a centralized payment settlement system."