“When bitcoin first came out, I was on the cryptography mai…

Twetch ·

“When bitcoin first came out, I was on the cryptography mailing list. When it happened, I sort of laughed. Because I had already proven that decentralized consensus was impossible.”

- Greg Maxwell

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Twetch ·

The funny thing is, Bitcoin isn't about decentralized consensus. That's what he and his ilk keep trying to turn it into.

No, it's not centralized either.

Degrees of centralization is a false spectrum. Meaningless, though it seems sound, superficially.