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Comment by immibis

1 year ago

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.

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