Lysander Spooner on Nostr: Distributed is not decentralized. We're talking on decentralized ledgers *because* ...
Distributed is not decentralized. We're talking on decentralized ledgers *because* the nodes don't sync up. Bitcoin nodes sync to one authoritative global state, like Facebook or Twitter, because it's a centralized and distributed database. The difference is that the CDN is public, not that the ledgers are decentralized.
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