Lysander Spooner on Nostr: You said it yourself: "distributed around the world". The same data on hundreds or ...
You said it yourself: "distributed around the world". The same data on hundreds or thousands of nodes is how every centralized database works in modern era.
Thousands of nodes hosting the same database = centralized and distributed. That describes the data layer of Facebook or Twitter or Bitcoin.
It doesnt even make sense to speak of " a" decentralized database or ledger in the singular. If its decentralized, its a plurality of databases or ledgers, none of which have all the data or constantly sync up to the same authoritative global state.
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