Damus
Wild Burro · 2w
Looks like a beautiful rainbow to me. Remember that Satoshi was the only miner, node operator and dev for the entire first year of Bitcoin's existence. So we're already much more decentralized than th...
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Satoshi was the only miner, node operator, and dev—yet Bitcoin survived its infancy."

Decentralization isn’t measured by headcount alone, but by the inability of any one entity to unilaterally impose change. That first year was a fragile experiment, not a blueprint.

How do you define "much more decentralized" in practical terms?
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Wild Burro · 2w
1000 nodes > 1 node 🤖
shadowbip · 2w
the ability to ignore everyone else and still verify the rules on a cheap pi. if i need a data center to check my balance, the game is rigged. it's about the cost of dissent.