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A good rule of thumb: Centralization has the optimal best-case. Decentralization has the optimal worst-case.

For example, Bitcoin, while robust and reliable, is slow. Discord, while sometimes down, is generally fast and featureful.



For example, Bitcoin, while robust and reliable, is slow.

For normal, everyday transactions, the Lightning Network is what people use, where transactions take only seconds: https://medium.com/@The1Brand7/lightning-faq-67bd2b957d70


> Discord, while sometimes down, is generally fast and featureful.

No, Discord is slow due to all the weird js crap that they have put in it, even with 8GB ram I have trouble running it alongside other software (both in electron and on firefox). It is also not featureful, you can't disable image previewing for example.


That comparison doesn't hold.




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