Zhengqi Liu
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- The Meaning of Decentralization. “Decentralization” is one of the words… | by Vitalik Buterin | Medium6 savers
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Architectural (de)centralization — how many physical computers is a system made up of? How many of those computers can it tolerate breaking down at any single time? Political (de)centralization — how many individuals or organizations ultimately control the computers that the system is made up of? Logical (de)centralization— does the interface and data structures that the system presents and maintains look more like a single monolithic object, or an amorphous swarm? One simple heuristic is: if you cut the system in half, including both providers and users, will both halves continue to fully ope…
The Meaning of Decentralization. “Decentralization” is one of the words… | by Vitalik Buterin | MediumLanguages are logically decentralized; the English spoken between Alice and Bob and the English spoken between Charlie and David do not need to agree at all. There is no centralized infrastructure required for a language to exist, and the rules of English grammar are not created or controlled by any one single person (whereas Esperanto was originally invented by Ludwig Zamenhof, though now it functions more like a living language that evolves incrementally with no authority)
The Meaning of Decentralization. “Decentralization” is one of the words… | by Vitalik Buterin | MediumStarting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business.
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