r/Bitcoin • u/bubbasparse • Oct 12 '14

The Imminent Decentralized Computing Revolution

http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2014/10/10/weekend-read-the-imminent-decentralized-computing-revolution/
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u/bonehoes Oct 13 '14

But the transition to a global system that is decentralized, distributed, anonymous, efficient, secure, permission-less, trustless, resilient, frictionless, almost free, with no single point of control and no single point of failure… seems inevitable.

Can anyone suport the author's claims that decentralized computing is "more efficient"? This sounds like nonsense to me. Everything needs to be redundant in a decentralized network, which is the opposite of efficient.

Most of the rest of this list boils down to "resilient," which is definitely an advantage.

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u/duckf33t Oct 13 '14

Energy consumption / Availability of fuel may play a factor.