Comment by kmeisthax
8 months ago
Decentralized and global consensus are contradictory properties, in order to have an otherwise arbitrary ASCII string resolve to a particular machine EVERYWHERE, you need a central authority to say who's who.
If you just want to prevent other central authorities (e.g. France) from barging in on the existing central authorities your computer expects to get answers from (e.g. ICANN, Verisign etc) there are plenty of projects for semiuncensoring DNS in a distributed way. But nobody is stopping, say, the US from doing to ICANN or Verisign what France is doing to CloudFlare and Google.
> Decentralized and global consensus are contradictory properties
That's literally what blockchain solves. ENS (Ethereum Naming Service) already does this.
The ethereum block chain is centralized - it may not have a geographical location, but there's still only one of it. In a global partition there become zero of it (only two incorrect fragments), not two of it.
Other people have even argued that blockchains are states - as in governments, not as in distributed state replication protocols.