Post
Topic
Board Speculation
Re: Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP.
by
Peter R
on 24/06/2015, 00:13:13 UTC
Even if there were only 10 miners in the world, as long as:

Sorry to now say that makes you a certified idiot. I've lost the respect I had for you. You appear to be an engineer with a calculator in your pocket who is clueless about society.

An engineer with no perspective is very dangerous.


https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4/status/610654279775461376

He is saying that 9 decentralized nodes are better 10,000 nodes which are run by 1 node.

He is saying nothing about the virtues of a network with 9 nodes.

Duh.

How many nodes and miners do you think we need to be decentralized and why?  

What does the word "decentralized" mean to you?

How would you measure the network's degree of decentralization?