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		amelius on Feb 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: People don't want to run their own bank > Decentralization at the core gives people more options, which I think in the long-term leads to a better world, compared to the alternative. So microservices are a better idea than monolithic core?

falcolas on Feb 4, 2022 [–]

It adds a lot of extra complexity and failure points? Fits.

Where the analogy falls apart is in the low transaction capacity of most existing blockchain-based currencies. Microservices' greatest asset is that of scaling in a way monolithic structures can't.

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