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alphazard • today at 6:13 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The people who would agree to this have exactly the kind of mental illness that I want in maintainers of decentralized financial infrastructure.


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cowlevel • today at 7:01 PM

It's not decentralised. If it was, it wouldn't have a maintainer. It's centralised in that every X months (I don't remember, 3 or 6) the chain just increases difficulty without bound, grinding to a halt if the latest consensus rules update hasn't been installed that pushes back the deadline another X months. This is how they make sure everyone is using the consensus rules that Vitalik currently prefers.

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