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What is the meaning of decentralized services ?

This is not a good faith question, Google it

This is not a good faith answer, it is however the type of thing that turns a lot of people off to cryptocurrency.

If you google decentralized service in an incognito tab you’ll see why people ask this. The rest of the world gets Wikipedia articles about engineering distributed systems (like database clusters) and distributed consensus (like raft). Since that’s (probably) not what you mean, I submit that as the person using a standard term in a non-standard way that it’s on you to define it.

I specifically stated that I was not referring to cryptocurrency, I’m certainly not an advocate. Every engineer knows what a decentralized service is and any who doesn’t will Google the term.

You are asking it bad faith hoping I was a cryptobro. It’s an obvious red herring and I’m not feeding the troll.

That’s quite the chip you have on your shoulder, too bad. Could have been an interesting discussion. For instance, Web 1.0 was already a decentralized system, as was the DNS which came before it. Why the version change?

Questions have been asked, and vitriol has been your only response. Who’s actually the troll, one wonders.

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