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Re: Are blockchains truly distributed systems?
by
Wind_FURY
on 31/10/2020, 08:35:53 UTC

But let's be on topic. Blockchains are NOT distributed systems. I haven't seen a post that tells me I'm wrong.

That's because you consider a system to be either distributed or not distributed, with nothing in between. I don't think any system could be considered distributed by your criteria.


It wasn't "my criteria". It's about what Bitcoin/blockchain networks are. That each node in the network re-validates and re-processes everyone's transactions.

Again, all the non-mining nodes do no processing here, they relay / route at best.

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Stopped you there.

Of course non-mining full nodes process/validate. They validate that everything is in order/follows the rules BEFORE propagating/relaying.

Some miners don't even run their own nodes. Are you saying they don't process/validate?